The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

6. There has been a great price paid for it: if you had kept the covenant of works, and been perfectly obedient unto God, without any defect, you would not have doubted of Gods readiness to accept of you and save you: but here is as fair a way made for your acceptance and salvation: God is fully satisfied for every jot of that glory that he promises unto you? Jesus Christ has payed the full price of it, according to the tenor of the covenant: it is a due debt to all that are partakers of the righteousness of Christ: it is an act of Justice in God to bestow salvation upon them: heavenly glory is purchased glory, Eph. 1.14. until the redemption of the purchased possession.

6. There has been a great price paid for it: if you had kept the covenant of works, and been perfectly obedient unto God, without any defect, you would not have doubted of Gods readiness to accept of you and save you: but here is as fair a way made for your acceptance and salvation: God is fully satisfied for every jot of that glory that he promises unto you? Jesus Christ has payed the full price of it, according to the tenour of the covenant: it is a due debt to all that are partakers of the righteousness of Christ: it is an act of Justice in God to bestow salvation upon them: heavenly glory is purchased glory, Eph. 1.14. until the redemption of the purchased possession.

Dis••••agement 2.

The many sins that he has been guilty of: sometimes a Saint has a dismal frightful apprehension of his sins: they appear to him as a dark cloud: he knows that God is an holy and a jealous God: he speaks dreadfully in his Word against sinful practices, and has brought dreadful judgment upon angels and men for their sins: and hence he is fearful that God will not pardon him: his sins proves his great temptation, hence his heart is still harping upon that string, that God is an holy sin-revenging God: and that he hath been guilty of abundance of sin,