Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

2. Righteousness is a second thing whereof the Spirit of Christ convinces the World, and the main thing that it is our wisdom to be acquainted withal. This all men are persuaded of; that God is a most Righteous God; (That is a natural notion of God which Abraham insisted on Gen, 18. 35. Shall not the Judge of all the world do right?) They know that this is the Judgement of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, Rom. 1. 32. that it is a Righteous thing with him to recompense tribulation unto offenders, 2. Thess. 1. 6. he is a God of purer eyes then to behold iniquity Hab. 1. 13. and therefore the ungodly cannot stand in Judgment Psal. 1. 5. Hence the great inquiry of every one, (who lies in any measure under the power of it,) convinced of Immortality, and the Judgement to come, is, concerning the Righteousness wherewith to appear in the presence of this Righteous God: This more or less they are solicitous about all their days; and so as the Apostle speaks Heb. 2. 15. through the fear of death they are subject to bondage all their life. They are perplexed with fears about the Issue of their Righteousness, least it should end in death and destruction.

2. Righteousnesse is a second thing whereof the Spirit of Christ convinces the World, and the maine thing that it is our wisedome to be acquainted withall. This all men are perswaded of; that God is a most Righteous God; (That is a naturall notion of God which Abraham insisted on Gen, 18. 35. Shall not the Iudge of all the world do right?) They know that this is the Judgement of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, Rom. 1. 32. that it is a Righteous thing with him to recompense tribulation unto offendors, 2. Thess. 1. 6. he is a God of purer eyes then to behold iniquity