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2. Thou believeft with a False Faith, because it taketh Juftification from the Perfonal Righteoufnefs of Chrift, and applies it to thy own.

3. This Faith maketh not Chrift a Juftifier of thy Perfon, but of thy Actions; and of thy Perfon, for thy Actions Sake, which is falfe.

4 Therefore this Faith is deceitful, even fuch as will leave the under Wrath in the Day of God Almighty: For true Juftifying Faith puts the Soul (as fenfible of its loft Condition by the Law) upon flying for Refuge unto Chrift's Righteoufnefs: (Which Righteoufnefs of his is not an Act of Grace, by which he maketh, for Juftification, thy Obedience accepted with God, but his Perfonal Obedience to the Law, in doing and fuffering for us what that required at our Hands.) This Righteousness, I fay, true Faith accepteth; under the Skirt of which the Soul being shrouded, and by it prefented as spotlels before God, it is accepted, and acquitted from Condemnation.

Ignor. What, would you have us truft to what Chrift in his own Perfon hath done without us? This Conceit would loofen the Reins of our Luft, and tolerate us to live as we lift: For, what Matter how we live, if we may be juftified by Chrift's Perfonal Righteoufnefs, from all, when we believe it?

Chr. Ignorance is thy Name; and as thy Name is, fo art thou; even this thy Anfwer demonftrateth what I fay. Ignorant thou art of what Justifying Righteousness

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is, and as ignorant how to fecure thy Soul through the Faith of it from the heavy Wrath of Go D. Yea, thou also art ignorant of the true Effects of Saving Faith in this Righteousness of Christ, which is to bow and win over the Heart to Go D in Chrift, to love his Name, his Word, Ways, and People, and not as thou ignorantly imagineft.

Hope. Afk him if ever he had Chrift revealed to him from Heaven?

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Ignor. What! You are a Man for Revelation! I do believe that what both and all the reft of you fay about that Matter, is but the Fruit of distracted Brains.

Hope. Why Man! Chrift is fo hid in God from the natural Apprehenfions of the Flesh, that he cannot by any Man be favingly known, unless God the Father reveals him to them.

Ignor. That is your Faith, but not mine; proachfully of yet mine, I doubt not, is as good as yours, though I have not in my Head so many Whimfies as you.

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Mat. 11. 28..

1 Cor. 11. 3.

Chr. Give me Leave to put in a Word: You ought not to speak fo flightly of this Matter For this I will boldly affirm, (even as my good Companion hath done) that no Man can know Jefus Chrift but by the Revelation of the Father; yea, and Eph. 1. 18. Faith too, by which the Soul layeth hold upon Christ, (if it be right) must be wrought by the exceeding Greatness of his mighty Power; the Working of which Faith, I perceive, poor Ignorance, thou art ignorant of. Be awakened then, fee

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thine own Wretchednefs, and fly to the Lord Jefus, and by his Righteousness, which is the Righteoufnefs of GoD, (for he himself is GOD) thou fhalt be delivered from Condemnation.

I broke up.

Ignor. You go fo faft, I cannot keep The Talk Pace with you: Do you go on before; muft stay awhile behind.

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Well, Ignorance, wilt thou yet foolish be
To flight good Counsel, ten Times given thee?
And if thou yet refuse it, thou shalt know,
Ere long, the Evil of thy doing fo.

Remember Man, in Time; ftoop, do not fear;
Good Counfel taken well fecures; then
bear.

But if thou yet halt fight it, thou wilt be
The Lofer, Ignorance, I'll warrant thee.

Then Chriftian addressed himself thus to his Fellow:

Chr. Well, come my good Hopeful, I perceive that thou and I must walk by ourfeives again.

So I faw in my Dream, That they went on apace before, and Ignorance he came hobbling after. Then faid Chriftian to his Companion, I am much grieved for this poor Man; it will certainly go hard with him at the laft.

Hope. Alas! there are Abundance in our Town in this Condition, whole Families, yea, whole Streets, and that of Pilgrims

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Pilgrims too; and if there be so many in our Parts, how many, think you, muft there be in the Place where he was born?

Chr. Indeed the Word faith, He bath blinded their Eyes, left they should fee, &c.

But now we are by ourselves, What do you think of fuch Men? Have they at no Time, think you, Convictions of Sin, fo confequently Fears that their State is dangerous?

Hope. Nay, do you answer that Question yourfelf, for you are the elder Man.

Chr. Then I fay, fometimes (as I think). they may, but they being naturally ignorant, understand not that fuch Convictions: tend to their Good; and therefore they do defperately feek to ftifle them, and prefumptuously continue to flatter themselves in the Way of their own Hearts..

The good Ufe. Hope. I do believe, as you fay, that Fear tends much to Men's Good, and to make them right at their Beginning to go on Pilgrimage.

Chr. Without all Doubt in doth, if it be Job. 28. 28. right: For fo fays the World,. The Fear of Pfal. 111.10. the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom.

Prov. 1. 7.

ch. 9. 10.

Right Fear.

Hope. How will you defcribe right Fear?

Chr. True or right Fear is discovered by three Things:

1. By it's Rife, it is caused by Saving Convictions for Sin.

2. It driveth the Soul to lay fast hold of Chrift for Salvation.

3. It begetteth and continueth in the Soul a great Reverence of GoD, his

Word

Word and Ways, keeping it tender, and making it afraid to turn from them, to the right Hand or to the Left, to any thing that may difhonour GoD, break it's Peace, grieve the Spirit, or cause the Enemy to speak reproachfully.

Hope. Well faid; I believe you have faid the Truth. Are we now almost got paft the Inchanted Ground?

Chr, Why, art thou weary of this Difcourfe?

Hope. No verily, but that I would know where we are.

Chr. We have not now above two Miles farther to go thereon. But let us return

to our Matter. Now the Ignorant know Why Ignee not that fuch Convictions as tend to put rant Perfons them in Fear, are for their Good, and do fifle Contherefore they feek to ftifle them.

victions.

Hope. How do they feek to ftifle them? 1. In general. Chr. 1. They think that thofe Fears

are wrought by the Devil; though indeed 2. In partithey are wrought of GOD and thinking cular. fo, they refift them, as Things that directly tend to their Overthrow. 2. They alfo think that thefe Fears tend to the Spoiling of their Faith, when alafs! for them, poor Men that they are, they have none at all! and therefore they harden their Hearts against them. 3. They prefume they ought not to fear, and therefore in Despite of them wax prefumptuously Confident. 4. They fee that thofe Fears tend to take away from them their pitiful old Self-holiness, and therefore they refift them with all their Might.

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