round of my controversial labour, I fhall adopt the poet's humble faying:

Fungor vice cotis, acutum

Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exfors ipfa fecandi.

Not that I dare to flaming zeal pretend,
But only boat to be the gospel's friend;
To whet you both to act, and, like the hone,
Give others edge, tho' I myself have none.

Or rather, confidering what the prophet fays of the
impartial hand which weighed feafting Belshazzar,
and wrote his awful doom upon the wall that faced
him, I will pray; O God be merciful to me, a
finner; and when I turn my face to the wall on my
dying bed, let not my knees finite one against the
other at the fight of the killing word, TEKEL:
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting. Let me not be found wanting either the
teftimony of thy Free-grace thro' faith, or the
teltimony of a good confcience thro' the works of
faith. So fhall the Spirit of thy Free-grace bear
witnefs with my free willing fpirit, that I am a child
of thine, that I have kept the faith, and that in the
great day, when 1 fhall be weighed in the balances
of the fanctuary, 1 fhall be found a JUSTIFIED
SINNER, according to the ANTI-PHARISAIC weights,
which fill the firft fcripture-fcale; and a JUSTI.
• FIED BELIEVER, according to the ANTI-SOLIFI-
DIAN Weights, which fill the fecond.'

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ELOTES founds one of his mistakes chiefly upon three texts, which it may be proper more fully to balance here, on account of the undue ftrefs which he lays upon them.

2. Thou meeteft him that rejoiceth, and WORK

ETH RIGHTEOUSNESS.

If. lxiv, 5.-Bleffed are they who are perfecuted FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE: [that is, for the good THEY DO; it being abfurd to fuppofe, that the wicked will perfecute the righteous for the good which Chrift did 1750 years ago.] Mat. v. 10. Solomon faid, Thou hast fhewed to David my father great mercy, ACCORDING AS he walked before thee IN TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUS

NESS, and in uprightness of heart with thee. I

unto

Kings iii. 6. He fhall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him for he will render man HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. Job xxxiii. 26.—O man of God, flee these things [hurtful lufts] and follow after RIGHTEOUSNESS, godliness, &c.-lay hold on eternal life. 1 Tim. vi. 11, 12.-Who, thro' faith WROUGHT RIGHTEOUSNESS, Heb. xi. 33.-I have fought

fought the good fight, I have kept the faith [that worketh by righteous love,] &c. HENCEFORTH there is laid up for ME a crown of RIGHTEOUSNESS, 2 Tim. iv. 7, 8.-Sow TO YOURSELVES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, reap in mercy. Hof, x. 12,-If the man be poor, thou fhalt-deliver him his pledge again, that he may fleep in his own raiment and bless thee; and IT fhall be RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO THEE BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD. DEUT. xxiv. 12, 13.—MY RIGHTEOUSNESS I hold faft, and will not let it go. Job xxvii. 6.-Bleffed is he-that DOES RIGHTEOUSNESS at all times. Pf. cvi. 3.-Who fhall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and WORKETH RIGHTEOUSNESS. Pf. xv. 1, 2.-RIGHTEOUSNESS delivereth from death.-The wicked fhall fall by his own wickedness. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE UPRIGHT thall deliver them. Prov. xi. 4, 5, 6.-Ye are his fervants whom YE obey, whether of fin unto death, or of OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS. Rom. vi. 16.-He that miniftereth feed to the fower, &c. increase the fruit of YOUR RIGHTE2 Cor. ix. 10. He hath given to the poor, BIS RIGHTEOUSNESS remaineth for ever, Ibid. verfe 9.-If the wicked will turn from all his fins, &c. and keep all my ftatutes, &c. all his tranfgreffions fhall not be mentioned unto him: in HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT HE HATH DONE, he fhall LIVE. EZ. xviii. 21, 22.-That ye may be fincere, and without offence, being filled with THE FRUITS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, which are by Jefus Chrift to the glory of Gol, Phil. i. 10. 11-Except YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS hall exceed the righteoufnefs of the pharifees, ye fhall in no cafe enter into the kingdom of heaven, Mat, v. 20.-Little children, let no man deceive you, he that DOES RIGHTEOUSNESS is righteous, even AS HE [Christ] IS RIGHTEOUS. I John iii. 7. [Now Chrift is righteous in reality, and not by antinomian imputation.]

OUSNESS.

They who fuppofe therefore, that he might not be found before God in

St. Paul prays, HIS OWN evangelical

gelical righteoufnefs, or in HIS OWN perfonal obedience of faith, make him deceive his own foul, and contradict not only the prophets, but himself, St. John, and Jefus Chrift,

are

1. Them that have ob- 2. I the Lord fpeak tained like precious faith RIGHTEOUSNESS, I dewith us, thro' the righ- clare things that teousness [i. e. thro' the RIGHT. Ifa. XLV. 19.-In righteous mercy and truth] thy FAITHFULNESS, anof God and our Saviour fwer me, AND IN THY Jefus Chrift. 2 Pet. i. 1. RIGHTEOUSNESS.Pf.cxliii. The wrath of man worketh not THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. Jam. i. 20. -Seek ye first the kingdom of God and HIS [God's] RIGHTEOUSNESSs [that is, according to the context, Seek ye poverty of fpirit, and the holiness described in the fermon on the mount.] Mat. vi, 33.-It had been better for them not to have known THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, than after they have known it to turn from the HOLY COMMANDMENT delivered unto them. 2 Pet. ii. 21. By faith Noah moved with fear PREPARED AN ARK &c, [i. e. obeyed] by the which he, &c. became heir of THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS BY FAITH. Heb. xi. 7. Thus fays the Lord, thy Redeemer; O that thou hadft HEARK

ENED то MY COMMANDMENTS! then had thy peace been as a river, and THY RIGHTEOUSNESS as the waves of the fea. Ifa. xlviii. 17, 18.-My RIGHTE OUSNESS fhall answer for me [Jacob] in time to come. Gen. xxx. 33.-Noah was a juft [righteous] man and perfect in his generations, and Noah WALKED with God. And the Lord faid to Noah, Come thou &c. into the ark, FOR THEE HAVE I SEEN RIGHTEOUS BEFORE ME in this generation. Gen. vi. 9.—vii. 1. I. We pray you, in 2. His own felf BARE Christ's stead, be ye recon- OUR SINS in his ow body ciled to God: for he hath on the tree, THAT we be. made him to be SIN[that is, ing dead to fin, fhould a fin-offering] for us, who LIVE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, knew no fin; that we might 1 Pet. ii, 24. bel

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be made THE RIGHTEOUS- | make thy officers peace, NESS of God in him, 2Cor. and thy exacters RIGHTEOUSNESS. If. lx. 17.— All thy commandments

v. 20, 21,

are RIGHTEOUSNESS. Pf. cxix. 172. — Him that faith unto the wicked, thou art RIGHTEOUS, him shall the people curfe, nations fhall abhor him. Prov. xxiv. 24-Put on the new man, which after God is created in RIGHTEOUSNESS and true holinefs. Eph. iv. 24.-Chrift gave himfelf for us that he might re. deem us from all iniquity, and [mak us the righ teoufnefs of God in himself, or to speak without a figure] purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Tit. ii. 14.-He hath raifed up an horn of falvation for us-to perform the mercy promifed, that we, &c. [might be made the righteousness of God, or, as Zacharias exprefjes it] that we might ferve him without fear; in holiness and RIGHTEOUSNESS before him all the days of our life. Luke i. 69, 72, 74, 75.

I hope, the balance of the preceding scriptures abundantly fhows, that Zelotes miftakes the genuine obvious meaning of Phil. iii. 9, 2 Pet. i. 1. and 2 Cor. v. 21, when he fuppofes that these paffages evince the truth of the antinomian imputation of righteousness, which he fo ftrenuously contends for. Should there be any other paffage of this nature, which has efcaped my notice; 1 beg that Zelotes's admirers will not impute the omiffion to difingenuity; my fin cere defire being to do juftice to every portion of the fcripture, and not artfully to conceal any part of the anti-pharifaic and anti-folifidian truth.

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