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heart alfo will I give you, and a new Spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the ftony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an beart of flesh. And 1 will put my Spirit within you, and caufe you to walk in my ftatutes, and ye Shall keep my judgments, and do them. Hereupon, they are Men of another Spirit, and with Caleb and Joshua, follow God fully, whilst others do it only in pretence, and the most turn their backs upon him.

(3.) Grace diftinguishes thofe in whom it is, from their former felves. They who were once darkness, are now made light in the Lord; and hereupon judge of things in a very different manner from what they did before, and in fome measure act accordingly. Sin that they once made light of, and too much delighted in, they now fee to be the greatest evil, and groan under it as their burden. Chrift, that in their account was without form or comlinefs to engage their eye, and had no beauty to attract their defire, is now the chiefeft of ten thoufand, yea altogether lovely to them.

They could once contentedly live without God, and faid unto the Almighty, depart from us, we defire not the knowledge of thy ways; but now they are fenfible, they have more to do with him than all the world, and their language is, Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I defire befides thee. The world was once to them instead of God, and they placed and pursued their happiness in it but now they look upon it all, as vain and vanishing, and deprecate nothing more than be

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ing pot off with it. Lord, fay they, deliver me from the men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whole belly thou filleft with thy hid treasure.

Religion, while untried, was cenfured as a mournful, grievous, unprofitable thing; and so was treated as a by-matter, if a profeffion was taken up at all: but now the foul, as fanctified, makes it its bufiners, and finds it its delight; studies God's will, in order to do it, and is never better pleased than when thus employed; elleeming his commandments concerning all things to be right, as having experienced, that in keeping of them there is a great reward.

Death and judgment, heaven and hell, that feldom came into the man's mind while unrenewed, are now feldom out of it, and lie with a peculiar weight there, as matters of the laft moment, and that to himself: so that he looks upon all the dying concerns of time, as inconfiderable in comparison of eternity. And under this view, he is working out his falvation with fear and trembling, giving all diligence to make his calling and election fure, as one that is wait ing for his Lord, and that would be found of him in peace; and when he is here no more to live, to be happy with him for ever.

In a word, where grace is communicated, the man is throughout changed, as to temper and course, heart and life.

Thus grace makes a difference which speaks its excellency.

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the price that went to purchase it, which was no lefs than the blood of Chrift. fary to make atonement for fin, to God, and fo for our freedom from condemnation and deliverance from the wrath to come, by pardon and juftification; and alfo for our being healed and recovered to the image of God, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghoft: both which are neceffary to our falvation. Our happiness lies in being reconciled to, and made like God and as including both thefe, Chrift fuffered, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to him.

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By nature we are children of wrath; only as doomed to it, but prepared for it. And a change is neceffary in our conftitution, as well as relation and to bring about this, we are not redeemed with corruptible things as filver and gold from our vain converfation, &c. but with the precious blood of Chrift, as of a lamb without blemish, and without fpot, 1 Pet. i. 13, 19. By our primitive apoftacy from God, grace is blotted out and quenched within, and the Spirit of grace forfeited and fent away grieved; and it was part of the curfe of the broken law, that from thence forward we should be left by him, as fouls on which he would no more work, and in which he would no more dwell : And had not Chrift died a propitiation for fin, no fuch jewel as grace had been found in any heart. It was Chrift's redeeming us from the curfe of the law that turning of this again.

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ing put off with it. Lord, fay they, deliver me from the men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou filleft with thy hid treasure.

Religion, while untried, was cenfured as a mournful, grievous, unprofitable thing; and fo was treated as a by-matter, if a profeffion was taken up at all: but now the foul, as fanctified, makes it its bufinefs, and finds it its delight; ftudies God's will, in order to do it, and is never better pleased than when thus employed; efteeming his commandments concerning all things to be right, as having experienced, that in keeping of them there is a great reward.

Death and judgment, heaven and hell, that feldom came into the man's mind while unrenewed, are now feldom out of it, and lie with a peculiar weight there, as matters of the laft moment, and that to himfelf: fo that he looks upon all the dying concerns of time, as inconfiderable in comparison of eternity. And under this view, he is working out his falvation with fear and trembling; giving all diligence to make his calling and election fure, as one that is waiting for his Lord, and that would be found of him in peace; and when he is here no more to live, to be happy with him for ever.

In a word, where grace is communicated, the man is throughout changed, as to temper and course, heart and life.

Thus grace makes a difference which speaks its excellency.

4. The value of grace may be gathered from

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the price that went to purchase it, which was no lefs than the blood of Chrift. This was neceffary to make atonement for fin, and fatisfaction to God, and fo for our freedom from condemnation and deliverance from the wrath to come, by pardon and juftification; and alfo for our being healed and recovered to the image of God, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghoft: both which are neceffary to our falvation. Our happiness lies in being reconciled to, and made like God and as including both thefe, Chrift fuffered, the juft for the unjust, that he might bring us to him.

By nature we are children of wrath ; not only as doomed to it, but prepared for it. And a change is neceffary in our conftitution, as well as relation and to bring about this, we are not redeemed with corruptible things as filver and gold from our vain converfation, &c. but with the precious blood of Chrift, as of a lamb without blemish, and without fpot, 1 Pet. i. 13, 19. By our primitive apoftacy from God, grace is blotted out and quenched within, and the Spirit of grace forfeited and fent away grieved; and it was part of the curfe of the broken law, that from thence forward we should be left by bim, as fouls on which he would no more work, and in which he would no more dwell : And had not Chrift died a propitiation for fin, no fuch jewel as grace had been found in any heart. It was Chrift's redeeming us from the curíe of the law that opened a way to the returning of this again. Juftly then may that be called

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