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magnificent and beautiful paffage in fcripture, where Chrift is called The Son of righteoufnefs. Your doctrine fets the comparison in a very advantageous light, gives it the utmost force, and the greatest propriety. The righteoufnefs of Chrift, according to your account, is as extenfively useful in the Chriftian life, as the beams of that grand luminary are in material nature. The fun fills the air; where it diffufes light, and creates day. The fun penetrates the ocean; from whence it exhales vapours, and forms the clouds. In the vegetable creation, the fun raises the fap, and protrudes the gems; unfolds the leaves, and paints the bloffom; diftends the truit, and concocts the juices. Turn we to the animal world; the fun delights the eye, and gladdens the heart. It awakens millions of infects into being; and imparts that general joy, which every fenfible creature feels. Indeed, there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

Afp. Thus the Lord Jesus Chrift, that true and only Son of Righteoufness arises on his people with healing in his wings, Mal. iv. 2. So various, fo efficacious, and fo extenfive are his influences. Like a fun, he enlightens and enlivens; like wings he cherishes and protects; like a remedy, he heals and reftores: and all, by virtue of his righteoufnefs, on account of his righteoufnefs.Nor can we doubt, nor need we wonder, i we confider its nature and its author. Its nature; it is confummately excellent, bas every kind, and every degree of perfecIts author; it is the righteoufnefs and obedience of that incomparable Perfon, in whom dwells all the fulnefs of the Godhead..

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It wuft therefore-you will permit me to fum up in a word, what has been difplayed at large, it must be fully anfwerable to the demands of the law, even in its highest purity, and utmost exactness. It is infinitely fuperior o the demerit of fin, and entirely abfolves from all guilt, entirely exempts from all condemnation. It is a moft valid and never-failing plea, against the accufations of Satan, and the challenges of contcience. It eftablishes an undoubted title to every bleffing, whether in time or in eternity, whether of grace, or or glory. It is a fure

Support for the Chriftian, in an hour of desertion, and in the agonies of death. Cafting anchor on this bottom, he may difmifs every fear, and ride out every ftorm.Leaning upon this ftaff, he may go down to the repose of the grave; and neither be appalled at the folemn harbingers of diffolution, nor terrified at its far more awful confequences. The merit of this righteousness, and the power of its Divine Author, will unfeal the tomb; will bring forth the fleeping duft from the chambers of putrefaction; and build up the whole man into immortality and glory. By this he will be prefented without fpot, Eph. v. 27. prefented faultless, Jude 24. ; yea, be prefented perfect, Col. i. 28. and with exceeding joy before the

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What a gift then is the righteousness of Chrift! Bleffed be God, for all the indulgent difpenfations of Providence! Bleffed be God, for all the beneficial produc tions of nature! But, above all, bleffed be God, for the tranfcendent and unfpeakable gift of Chrift-for the unfearchable and infinite treafures of his righteoufness.

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