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your Nature in him, being accurfed originally by his Fall, and fince, by your own Tranfgreffions: Therefore God alfo fends you out (and every one he intends to fave) to till the ground of your own Hearts; to break up the fallow Ground; to root out the Thorns and Thiftles (your Sins) from thence, and to make yourselves holy as your Nature was (in Adam) at first, which you can never do: For no Man can quicken his own Soul, Pfal. xxii. 29. And this the Lord does that Man might fee his loft Condition; and that he can no more change his Heart than the Ethiop his Skin, until the Lord Jehovah puts his Hand to the Work: then will appear fome evident Signs of Restoration to Life; as it follows in the Subject under Confideration.

"And when I beheld, lo! the Sinnews and the Flesh came up upon them, and the Skin covered them above, but there was no Breath in them.” God by his Spirit had been tilling the Ground of their Hearts, 'till they were afraid of Hell and eternal Damnation. "Then faid he unto me, Prophefy unto the Wind, prophefy, Son of Man, and fay to the Wind, Thus faith the Lord God, Come from the four Winds, O Breath, and breathe upon these Slain, that they may live! Ezek. xxxvii. 8, 9. God works in a miraculous Manner to deliver his Church: He brought his Ifrael of old out of Captivity, when they were oppreffed and under the Difpenfation of the Law. In a fimilar Manner he now miraculously delivers his Church out of the Bondage of Sin and the Slavery of the Devil, under the Dispensation of the Gospel, when all human Help fails. Here you may fee that it is God who prepares the Hearts of his People, viz. the whole Houfe of Ifreel ever fince the Fall of Adam, in order to receive his Grace; they being in the Sight of God dead, in the Valley of dry Bones, as D

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will appear for after all the Noife, and the Shaking, and the Trembling, which the Spirit of God had brought on them, through Conviction, for Fear of the high and lofty One that inhabiteth Eternity yet they were ftill in a state of Death, for there was no fpiritual Breath in them, Ezek. xxxvii. 8. For befides Repentance towards God, there must be Faith towards our Lord Jefus Chrift, Act. xx. 21. Which thofe poor Souls as yet had But mark his holy Word! "To this Man will I look, even to him that is poor (in Spirit) and of a contrite Heart, and trembleth at my Word," Ija. lxvi. 2. The Lord looked in Mercy on those trembling Souls, and call'd for his four Winds, even his Holy Spirit which fills all Worlds, to breathe Life into their prepared Hearts, in order to apply the Merits and effects of the Life, Death, Refurrection and Interceffion of The Lord our Righteousness unto their fainting Souls. Then they find the Pearl of great Price, CHRIST JESUS, hid in the Field of God's fecret Counfel, Matt. xiii. 46. Which no Man can know, or come unto, unless the Father draw and teach him, John vi. 44. Here the new Wine is put into new Bottles, and both preferved, Matt. ix. 17. The Souls of poor, repenting Sinners are made meet to receive Grace (Article xiii.) But if the proud Pharifee, the wholehearted, unconverted Man was to have a Taste of God's gracious Prefence, as Saul had in Company with David; and as Judas had when among the Apoftles this new Wine put into their old Bottles (unprepared Hearts, never refined in the Fire of true Conviction, nor made meet for the Master's Ufe, would, through Pride, break the Bottles, and both Wine and Bottles perish, Mait. ix. 17. Thus does God, by his breathing Winds, bring poor, weary, deipairing Tillers of the Ground unto Christ,

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Chrift, when they have been a convenient Time under the Difcipline of the Law, which is their School-mafter, teaching them to lay hold of the Righteoufnefs of Chrift, Gal. iii. 24. "But after

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Faith is come, we are no longer under a Schoolmaster (faith the Apostle) for we are all the Children of God by Faith in Chrift Jefus," ver. 25, 26. Chrift is the End of the Law tor Rightecufness to every one that believeth, Rom. x. 4. For "this is his Name whereby he fhall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS," Jer. xxiii. 6. Thus poor heavy-laden Sinners, having try'd to the utmoft to be faved by the Law of Works, and yet continue in their wretched State, confcious of Guilt, and condemned by the Law, that flaming Sword which turneth every Way, to withitand fumptuous Sinners; at length makes them glad to be flipt from the wild Olive, Self, and to be engrafted into the good Olive Tree, even Chrift, to be faved by the free Grace of God. And then they begin to confefs with Saint Paul," By Grace we are faved, through Faith, in the Merits of Chrift's Blood; fo that it is not of ourselves, it is the Gift of God, not of Works, left any Man fhould boast," Eph. ii. 8, 9. Now the Soul being convinced of Righteousness, as well as of Sin; that is, of the Neceffity and fufficiency of Chrift's Righteousness, and fenfible of the damning Nature of Sin, and his own Inability to believe in Chrift's Righteoufnels, not knowing his Intereft in him. Now, I fay, when the Understanding is enlightened to know what true Righteoufnefs is, the poor Sinner will loath himself, and esteem Chrift precious! and like St. Paul, he would not have on his own Righteoufnefs, which is of the Law, to appear in Judgment, even though it feemed to be blameless, but the Righteoufnefs that is of Faith, even Faith in the Son

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Son of God: which is the approved WeddingGarment, required of God in holy Scripture, and renders the Soul a worthy Communicant at God's holy Table. For the believing Soul has the Honour to become the Bride, the Lamb's Spouse, hearkens to his Counfel, and buys of him white Raiment (without Money) that he might be clothed; leaft the Shame of her Nakednefs fhould appear, which Fig-leaf Righteoufnefs could not cover, Rev. iii. 18. And now fhe is admitted to his Banqueting-house, and his Banner over her is Love, Cant, ii. 4. Now by Faith fhe can fee that the Prince of this World (her former cruel Mafter) who kept her in Chains, is judged, and condemn'd as an Ufurper, John xvi. 8, 11. And now, this being the Cafe, what think you, my Friends, of the Doctrine delivered? are thefe the Words of Truth and Sobriety? I hope, at least, you will no longer contemptuously call it Enthusiasm!

I fuppofe you will fay, you cannot tell what to think of it: if fo, fufpend your Judgment 'till you have found out where true Wifdom (viz. Chrift) dwelleth; and defire him to anoint your Eyes with Eye Salve, that you may fee; and give you the hearing Ear, that you may hear, and illuminate your Understanding which is yet dark through the Ignorance that is in you, Eph. iv. 18. And labour to know what Saint Paul meant when he faid, "I have efpoufed you to one Hufband, that I may present you a chafte Virgin to Christ," 2 Cor. xi. 2. And again," My little Children, of whom I travail in Birth again until Chrift be formed in you," Gal. iv. 19. "Which is Christ in you (Believers) the Hope of Glory," Col. i. 27. If his Image which we loft by Adam's Fall be reftored in us, it will be Life eternal to know not only God the Father reconciled unto us, but Jefus

Christ whom he hath fent to perform the glorious Work of Man's Redemption, by his fpotlefs Obedience, by his precious Blood, and his gracious Spirit working in our Hearts, John xvii. 3.

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we cannot know the Father, but by the Son's Spirit, for no Man knoweth the Father but the Son, and be to whom the Son will reveal him, Matt. xi. 27. Therefore, unless you have received those breathing Winds, even the Spirit of Chrift, ye neither know the Son, nor the Father; For if you have not the Spirit of Chrift, ye are none of his, Rom. viii. 9.

But there is now no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jefus, who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life which we have received in Chrift Jefus, makes us free from the Law of Sin and Death. For what the Law could not do in us, in that it was weak by Reason of the Infirmity of our Flefh; God therefore fending his own Son, in the likeness of finful Flesh, and by his Obedience to God's Law, condemned Sin firft in his own Flefh: (for in him was. no Sin) and alfo in the Flefh of Believers; that the Righteousness of the Law (by our Union with Chrift) might be fulfilled in us (by Imputation) who walk not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit,' Rom. viii. 1, 2, 3, 4. Chrift being a reputed Sinner, and content to be "the Lamb flain from (or before) the foundation of the World," Rev. xiii. 8. Therefore Man's Sin by God's Imputation of it to Christ, condemned Chrift to Death: And Christ's Righteoufnes, by God's Imputation of it to Man, condemned Sin to death in Man, when united to Christ. "For Chrift became Sin for us who knew no Sin, that we might become the Righteousness of God in him," 2 Cor. v. 21. Wherefore God faith, Deliver bim from going down to the Pit, I have found a Ranfom, Job xxxiii. 24. And forafmuch as without

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