VI. Yet notwithstanding, the persons of believers being

accepted through Christ, their good works also are accept- ed in him " ; not as though they were in this life wholly
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present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Psal. xvi. 2. >0 my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord -. my goodness extendeth not to thee. Job xxii. 2. Can a man be profit- able unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself.? Ver. .'3. Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous .•' or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect .'' Job xxxv. 7. If thou be righteous, what givest thou him ? or what receiveth he of thine band ? Ver. 8. Thy wickedness may 'hurt a man as thou art, and thy righteousness may profit the son of mai>.
'^Luke xvli. 10. [S.'g htter ^ in this Chapter^
* Gal. V. 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long- suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Ver. 23. Meekness, temperance : ^against such there is no law.
t Isa. Ixiv. 6. But we are all as an unclean tlaing, and all our righ- teousnesses are as filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have ta- ken us away. Gal. v. 17. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh : and these are contrary the one to the other ; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Rom. vii. 1 5.
For that which I do, I allow not : for what I would, that do I not ; but what I hate, that do I. Ver. 18. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but bow to perform that which is good I find j not. Psal. cxliii. 2. And enter not into judgment with thy servant : for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Psal. cxxx. 3. If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand ?
VI.- " Eph. i. G. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved. I Pet. ii. 5. Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiri- tual house, an holy priesthood, to ofFer up spiritual sacrifices, ac- ceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Exod. xxviii. 38. And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the' children of Is- rael shall hallow in all their holy gifts : and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord. Gen. iv. 4. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof: and the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his of- fering. With Heb, xi. 4. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that
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anblamoable and iinrcproveaMe in God's si^jht ^^ ; but that he, looking upon them in his Son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere, ah hough accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfections ".