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No new thing is beneath the fun c;
Yet all is new, and old things gone d.

Though in my flesh dwells no good thing e,
Yet Chrift in me I joyful fingƒ.

Sin I confess, and I deny

For though I fin it is not I g.

Col. i. 21. And you that were fometimes alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled.

a Jer. xvii. 9. The heart is deceitful above all things and defperately wicked, who can know it? Heb. x. 22. Let us draw near with a true heart, in full affurance of faith, having our hearts fprinkled from an evil confcience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

6 Rom. ix. 25, 26. As he faith alfo in Ofee, I will call them my people, which were not my people? and her, belov ed, which was not my beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was faid unto them, Ye are not my people; there fhall they be called, The children of the living God. Rev. ii. 17. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit faith unto the churches. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white ftone, and in the ftone a new name written, which no man knoweth, faving he that receiveth it. Chap. iii. 12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he fhall go no more out: and will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerufalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and I will write upon him my new name.

Eccl. i. 9. The thing that hath been, it is that which fhall be and that which is done, is that which fhall be done : and there is no new thing under the fun.

d2 Cor. v. 17. If any man be in Chrift, he is a new creature: "old things are past away, behold all things are become new. Rev. xxi. 5. And he that fat upon the throne, faid, Behold, I make all things new.

e Rom. vii. 18. For I know, that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is prefent with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not.

f Col. i. 27. To whom God would make known what is

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I fin against, and with my will b;
I'm innocent, yet guilty ftill i.

Though fain I'd be the greatest saint k,
To be the leaft I'd be content /.

the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Chrift in you the hope of glory.

g Rom. vii. 14.-20. For we know that the law is fpiritual; but I am carnal, fold under fin. For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I' hate that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I con fent unto the law that it is good. Now then, it is no more I that do it, but fin that dwelleth in me. For I know, that in me, (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is prefent with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now, if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but fin that dwelleth in me. 1 John iii. 9. Whofoever is born of God, doth not commit fin; for his feed remaineth in him: and he cannot fin, because he is born of God.

h Rom. vii. 21,-25. I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is prefent with me. For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man. But I fee another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, which is in my members. O wretched man that I am, who fhall deliver me from the body of this death! I thank God, through Jefus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind I myfelf ferve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of fin.

iPfalm xix. 13. Keep back thy fervant alfo from prefumtuous fins, let them not have dominion over me; then fhall I be upright, and I fhall be innocent from the great tranfgreffion. And cxx. 3. If thou, Lord, fhouldft mark iniquities: O Lord, who fhall ftand?

k Pfalm xxvii. 4. that will I feek after,

One thing have I delired of the Lord, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.

/ Pfalm lxxxiv. 10. For a day in thy courts is better than

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My lowness may my height evince m
I'm both a beggar and a prince n.
With meanest fubjects I appear o,
With kings a royal fceptre bear p.

I'm both unfetter'd and involv'd

By law condemn'd, by law abfolv'd r,

a thousand: I had rather be a door keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

m Job v. II. To fet up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to fafety.

71 Sam. ii. 8. The Lord raifeth up the poor out of the duft, and lifteth up the beggar from the dung hill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath fet the world upon them. Gen. xxxii. 28. And the angel faid, Thy name fhall be called no more Jacob, but Ifrael; for as a prince thou haft power with God and with men, and haft prevailed. Rev. i. 5, 6. Unto him that loved us, and wafhed us from our fins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

• Phil. ii. 10. That at the name of Jefus every knee fhould bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. Heb. i. 6. And again, when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, he faith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

p Rev. ii. 26, 27. And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations (and he shall rule them as with a rod of iron: as the veffels of a potter fhall they be broken to fhivers) even as I received of my Father.

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9 Pfalm cxvi. 16. Oh Lord, truly I am thy fervant, I am thy fervant, and the son of thy handmaid, thou haft loof. ed my bonds. Rom. vii. 23. But I fee another law in my members, warring againft the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, which is in my members.

r 1 John iii. 20. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Rom. viii. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which arc in Chrift Jefus, who walk not after the flesh, but after

My guilt condignly punifh'd fee,
Yet I the guilty wretch go free s.
My gain did by my lofs begin t;
My righteousness commenc'd by fin u;
My perfect peace by bloody ftrife v;
Life is my death, and death my life w.
I'm (in this prefent life I know)

A captive and a freeman too ;

the Spirit. v. 33, 34. Who fhall law any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that juftifieth: who is he that condemneth? It is Chrift that died, yea, rather that is rifen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh interceffion for us.

Gal. iii. 13. Chrift hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curfe for us: for it is written, Curfed is every one that hangeth on a tree.

t Rom. iii. 23, 24. For all have finned and come short of the glory of God: being juftified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jefus Chrift.

u Rom. iii. 5. But if our unrighteoufnefs commend the righteoufnefs of God, what fhall we fay? Chap. v. 20, 21. But where fin abounded, grace did much more abound: that as fin hath reigned unto death, even fo might grace reign through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jefus Christ our Lord.

Col. i. 20. And (having made peace through the blood of his crofs) by him to reconcile all things unto himself, by him I fay, whether they be things on earth, or things in heaven. w The life of fin is our death. 1 Tim. v. 6. But the that liveth in pleasure, is dead while the liveth. The death of Chrift our life. 2 Cor. v. 14, 15. For the love of Chrift constraineth us, becaufe we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; and that he died for all, that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

Rom. vii. 23, See letter q. Chap, viii. 2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Chrift Jefus, hath made me free from the law of fin and death.

And though my death can't fet me free,
It will perfect my liberty y.

I am not worth one dufty grain,
Yet more than worlds of golden-gain;
Though worthless I myself endite,
Yet, fhall as worthy walk in white z.

SECT. VI.

The Mystery of free juftification through CHRIST'S obedience and fatisfaction.

creature ever could or wilk

For fin yield. fatisfaction full a;
Yet juftice from the creature's hand
Both fought and got its full demand‍ b..

John viii. 36. If the fon therefore fhall make you free, ye thall be free indeed. Rev. xiv 13. And I heard a voice from heaven, faying unto me, Write, Bleffed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth: Yea, faith the Spi rit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.. 2 Cor. v. 4. For we that are in, this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swal lowed up of life.

2. Gen. xxxii. 1o, I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of all the truth, which thou haft fhewed unto thy fervant; for with my staff. I paffed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands, Rev. iii. 4. Thou hast a few names even in Sardis, which have not defiled their garments; and they fhall walk with me in white; for they are worthy.

a Pfalm xlix. 8. For the redemption of their foul is preci ous, and it ceaseth for eyer. Ifa, xl. 16. And Lebanon is not fufficient to burn, nor all the beats thereof fufficient for a burnt offering.

6. Pfalm.xl. 6. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, mine ears thou haft opened: burnt-offering and fin-offering haft thou not required. Heb. x. 5, 6, 7. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he faith, facrifice and offering thou

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