...the Heritage of the Servants " of the LORD, and their RIGHTEOUSNESS is of me, u /kith the LORD. " Ch. Ixiv. 6. We are all as an unclean Thing^ ** and all our RIGHTEOUSNESS is as filthy Rags. " Jer. xxiii. 16. This is the Name wherewith he " (hall be called,...

...no Man living be juftified, that is by his own Deeds. We have Reafon to confefs to God, and fay Ifa. Ixiv. 6. we are all as an unclean Thing, and all our Right eoufneffes are as filthy Rags. And therefore no Man has any Ground to expect Juftification in...

...fin-hating God, and has been brought with heart and hand to fubfcribe the words of the prophtt, If. Ixiv, 6, " we are all as an unclean thing, and all our " rtghteoufnefles are as filthy rags, and our ini" quities like the wind have taken us away ;" yet...

...themfelves, I cannot think it is better with them, than with thofe people of God that complained, Ifa. Ixiv. 6. " We are all «' as an unclean thing, and all our righteoufnefles " are as filthy rags." And then where will they be, if they have no better than a filthy...

...atone for one fin. (2.) Your befl duties do but iucreafe your guilt. This the church well faw, Ifa. Ixiv. 6. " We are all as an unclean thing, and all our rigbteoofueffss are as filthy rags," (3.) Good duties when refted on, have damned many, but never did,...

...every man according to his deeds." Even of God's own chosen people, Isaiah had said, long before, " presented was then firing. own representation is reproduced, ߋ 0 ; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is...

...thy pleasure, they are and were created, c Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands. d But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away, e But now, O...

...behold, thou art wroth : for we have sinned : in those is continuance, and we shall be .saved, But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is...

...of mercy, there is continuance : thy mercy is everlasting, therefore we f/iatl € be saved.1! But we are all as an unclean [thing,] and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags ; our t>rst »епч'сея are imperfect, defective, and mixed with fiollution : and we all do fade...

...performances; and I dare confidently to foretel, that he will ei'e long cry out with the prophet, " We are all as an " unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are " as filthy ragsj" or in the language of the judicious Hooker, ' The best things that we do have ' something in...