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judgment, to deal truly; he is juft, he shall furely live, faith the Lord God.

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For the Son of man fhall come in the 16. 27. glory of his Father, with his angels, and then he fhall reward every man according to his works.

Acts IO.

Then Peter opened his mouth and said, 34, 35. Of a truth I perceive that God is no refpecter of perfons: but in every nation, he that feareth him, and worketh righteoufnefs, is accepted with him.

Rom. 2.

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2 Cor.

The righteous judgment of God; who will render to every man according to his deeds to them, who, by patient continuance in well-doing, feek för glory and ho- . nour, and immortality, eternal life: but glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew firft, and also to the Gentile.

For we must all appear before the judg5. 10. ment-feat of Chrift, that every one may receive the things done in his body, accord ing to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad..

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James

Which is a manifeft token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye alfo fuffer.

But whofo looketh into the perfect law. 1.25. of liberty, and continueth therein, he being

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not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man fhall be bleffed in his deed.

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Caft not away therefore your confidence, Heb. which hath great recompence of reward. 10. 35. And if ye call on the Father, who with- 1 Peter out refpect of perfons, judgeth according 1.17. to every man's work, pafs the time of your fojourning here in fear.

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And behold I come quickly, and my Rev. 12. reward is with me, to give every man according as his work fhall be. Bleffed are they that do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

Q. It should feem that the purpose of God, in fending his Son the Lord Jefus Chrift, was not fimply to fave man by an imputative rightcoufnefs, altogether without them; but also by the washing of regeneration, or an inward righteoufnefs: what faith the feripture further of this?

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A. And thou fhalt call his name Jefus, Mat. for he hall fave his people from their fins. 1. 21. Looking for that bleffed hope,. and the Tit. 2. glorious appearing of the great God, and 3.14. our Saviour Jefus Chrift, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

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Rom.

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CHAP. VIÍ.

Concerning Perfection, or Freedom from

Sin.

Queft. I perceive then by all thefe fcriptures aforementioned, that Chrift, as well as be bath purchased pardon for our fins, hath also obtained power by which we may even here be cleanfed from the filth of them: May we expect then in this life to be freed from the dominion of fin?

A. For fin fhall not have dominion over

you.

Q. For what reafon?

A. For ye are not under the law, but 6. 14. under grace.

Q. How cometh the apostle then to cry out and complain of fin, faying, Who fhall deliver me from the body of this death? Doth he Speak that as a condition always permanent to him and other faints, or only that which he had paffed through? What faith he afterwards? Rom. 8. A. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jefus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jefus hath made me free from the Rom. 8. law of fin and death. Who fhall feparate 35 to 39. us from the love of Chrift? Shall tribu

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lation, or distress, or perfecution, or fa

mine, or nakednefs, or peril, or fword? (As it is written, For thy fake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the laughter.) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am perfuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things prefent, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, fhall be able to feparate us from the love of God, which is in Chrift Jefus our Lord.

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Q. What faith that apostle then, unto fuch, who taking occafion from his words, should plead for continuance in fin for term of life, and think to be faved by the imputative rightcoufness of Christ, as being under grace?

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A. What fhall we fay then? Shall we Rom. 6. continue in fin, that grace may abound? 1, *. God forbid.

What then? Shall we fin, because we Rom. are not under the law, but under grace? 6. 15. God forbid.

Q. Is not the apofle then fo far from sup pofing that condition, of being always under fin, to be his own conftant condition, or that of all the faints, that he even supposes many of the then church of Rome, to whom he wrote, to be free from it? How bespeaketh he them, as in relation to this matter?

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Rom. 6.

A. How fhall we that are dead to fin, 2 to 7 live any longer therein? Know ye not, that fo many of us as were baptized into Jefus Chrift, were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptifm into death; that like as Chrift was raifed up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even fo we alfo fhould walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we fhall be alfo in the likeness of his refurrection; knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of fin might be deftroyed, that henceforth we fhould not ferve fin. For he that is Rom. 6. dead, is freed from fin. Likewife reckon ye alfo yourselves to be dead indeed unto fin; but alive unto God, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Let not fin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lufts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as inftruments of unrightcoufnefs unto fin; but yield yourselves unto God, as thofe that are alive from the dead; and your members as inftruments. Rom. 6. of righteoufnefs unto God. Know ye not, 16 to 23 that to whom ye yield yourfelves fervants to obey, his fervants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of fin unto death, or of obedience unto righteoufnefs? But God be thanked, that ye were the fervants of fin;

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