and take these my daughters, said he, conduct them to the house called Beautiful, at which place they will rest next. So he took his weapons, and went before them; and the Interpreter said, God speed.

Those also

that belonged to the family sent them away with many a good wish. So they went on their way, and sang

This place has been our second stage

Here we have heard and seen

Those good things, that from age to age
To others hid have been.

The dunghill-raker, spider, hen,

The chicken too, to me

Hath taught a lesson; let me then
Conformed to it be.

The butcher, garden, and the field,
The robin and his bait,

Also the rotten tree doth yield

Me argument of weight;

To move me for to watch and pray,
To strive to be sincere :

To take my cross up day by day,

And serve the Lord with fear.

Now I saw in my dream, that those went on, and Great-heart before them; so they went and came to the place where Christian's burthen fell of his back, and tumbled into a sepulchre (P. i. p. 90). Here then they made a pause; here also they blessed God. Now, said Christiana, it comes to my mind what was said to us at the gate, to wit, that we should have pardon by word and deed; by word, that is, by the promise; by deed, to wit, in the way it was obtained. What the promise is, of that I know something but what it is to have pardon by deed,

or in the way it was obtained, Mr. Greatheart, I suppose you know; which, if you please, let us hear your discourse thereof.

Gr.-h. Pardon by the deed done, is pardon obtained by some one, for another that

Pardon-The subsequent discourse, on Pardon by the deed done,' confirms the interpretation that hath been given of the cross, and of Christian's deliverance from his burthen. The doctrine is, however, here stated in a manner to which some may object, and indeed it is needlessly sys. tematical and rather obscure. By the righteousness of Christ as God, his essential divine attributes of justice and holiness must be intended: his righteousness as na denotes his human nature as free from all the defilement of sin. The right. eousness of his person, as he hath the two natures joined in one, can only mean the perfection of his mysterious person in all respects; and his capacity of acting as our surety, by doing and suffering in our nature all that was requisite, while his divine nature stamped an infinite value on his obe lience unto death. The eternal Word, the only-begotten Son of God, was under no obligation to assume our nature: and when he had seen good to asume it, he was not bound to live a number of years here on earth, obedient to the law, be th in its ceremonial and moral requirements, amidst hardships, sufferings, and temptations of every kind; except as he had undertaken to be our surety. In this sense he himself had no need of that righteousness which he finished for our justification. And assuredly he was under no obligation, as a perfectly holy man, to suffer even unto the violent, torturing, and ignominious death upon the cross. That part of ins obedience, which consisted in enduring agony, and pain in body and soul, was only needful as he bare our sins, and gave himself a sacrifice to God for gs. Indeed, his righteousness is not the less his own, by being imputed to us: for we are considered as one with him by faith and thus made the righteousness of God in him,' and we are justified in virtue of this union. He was able by his temporal sufferings and death to pay our debt and ranson or inheritance, thas deliv ering us from eternal misery, which else had been inevitable, and bringing us to eternal life, which had otherwise been unattainable; and the law of love, to which as a man he be came subject, required him to do this: for if we loved our 'neighbour as ourselves,' we should be willing to submit to

hath need thereof; not by the person pardonred, but in the way, saith another, in which I have obtained it. So then (to speak to the question more at large), the pardon that you, and Mercy, and these boys have attained by another; to wit, by him that let you in at that gate and he hath obtained in this double way; he hath performed righteousness to cover you, and spilt blood to wash you in.

Chr. But if he parts with his righteousness to us, what will he have for himself.

Gr.-h. He has more righteousness than you have need of, or than he needeth himself. Chr. Pray make that appear.

Gr.-h. With all my heart: but first I must premise, that he, of whom we are now about to speak, is one that has not his fellow. He has two natures in one person, plain to be distinguished, impossible to be divided. Unto each of these natures a righteousness belongeth, and each righteousness is essential to that nature. So that one may as easily cause the natures to be extinct, as to separate its justice or righteousness from it. Of these righteousnesses, therefore we are not made partakers, so that they, or any of them, should be put upon us, that we might be made just, and live thereby. Besides these, there is a righteousness which this person has, as these two natures are joined in one. And this is

any inferior loss, hardship, or suffering, to rescue an enemy or stranger from a greater and more durable misery, which he hath no other way of escaping; or to secure to him a more valuable and permanent advantage, which can no otherwise be obtained.