The sound believer. A treatise of evangelical conversion. Discovering the work of Christ's spirit,…

3. By this you have perfect Righteousness, as perfectly Righteous, as Christ the Righteous, 1 John 2.1, 2, and 3.7. All yo•• own Righteousness tho' it be the Fruit of the Spirit of Grace, is a blotted, stained Righteousness, very imperfect and little; but by this the Faith of David, Peter, Paul, was not more precious than thine is, because thou hast the same Righteousness as they had, 2 Pet. 1.2. What sincere Soul but esteems of perfect Holiness more than of Heaven it self? Oh consider thou hast it (in this Sense I now speak of) in the Lord Jesus.

4. By this you have continual Righteousness. What dost thou complain of daily? Is it not because thou ⟨p. 201⟩feelest new Sins, or the same Sins confessed, and lamented, and in Part subdued; nay, some to thy feeling wholly subdued; but they return upon thee again, and the Springs in the Bottom fill thy Soul again, that thou art weary of thy Self and Life. O but remember, this is not a Cistern, but a Fountain opened, Zech. 13.1. for thee to wash in; as Sin abounds, so Grace in this Gift of Righteousness abounds much more; the Lord hath Changes of Garments for thee, Zech. 3.1, to 7. by Means of which, there shall never enter into the Lord's Heart, one hard Thought toward thee of casting thee off, or of taking Revenge, upon any new Occasion or Fall into Sin.

4. By this you have continual Righteousness. What dost thou complain of daily? Is it not because thou ⟨p. 201⟩