The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

First, Unfeigned Faith in the Lord Jesus is absolutely necessary, that we may be accepted. This is such a belief of his all-sufficient Merits, and his merciful inclination to save us, that the guilty and self-condemned Sinner entirely consents to the Terms of the Gospel, as well as to the Privileges of it, with a reliance upon his Merits, and a resolution to obey his Precepts. He is a Priest on a Throne, a Prince, and ⟨p. 240⟩a Saviour, and so must be acknowledged and received. Upon this condition his Righteousness is freely imputed to us for our Justification unto Life, without which we must perish in our Sins. For,

First, Unfained Faith in the Lord Jesus is absolutely necessary, that we may be accepted. This is such a belief of his all-sufficient Merits, and his merciful inclination to save us, that the guilty and self-condemned Sinner entirely consents to the Terms of the Gospel, as well as to the Priviledges of it, with a reliance upon his Merits, and a resolution to obey his Precepts. He is a Priest on a Throne, a Prince, and ⟨p. 240⟩a Saviour, and so must be acknowledged and received. Upon this condition his Righteousness is freely imputed to us for our Justification unto Life, without which we must perish in our Sins. For,

1. The best Saints are guilty and deeply obnoxious to the Law, and the Judgment of God is invariably according to Truth; so that appearing in their Sins, they will be cast for ever. God's Tribunal, like that of the severe Roman Judg, is Reorum Scopulus, a Rock that dashes in pieces all the Guilty that come to it. Therefore the Psalmist so earnestly deprecates, Enter not into Judgment with thy Servant, O Lord; for in thy sight shall no Man living be justified. And the Apostle, tho' a transcendent Saint, divests himself of his own Righteousness, that he may be entirely covered with the Righteousness of Christ, and renounces all things, that he may be found in him as his Surety in that Day of Accounts, and obtain Pardon by virtue of his Satisfaction for Sin. We cannot perfectly obey the Commands, nor appease the Displeasure of God: but the expiatory Sacrifice of Christ propitiates