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and faith toward our Lord Jefus Chrift. Rom. 2. 4. Defpifeft thou the riches of his goodnefs, and forbearance, and long-fuffering; not knowing that the goodnefs of God leadeth thee to repentance. 2 Cor. 7. 10. Godly forrow worketh re- P* Mar. I. 16. Now as he pentance to Salvation, not to be re- walked by the Sea of Galilee, he faw pented of. 2 Pet. 3. 9. The Simon and Andrew his Brother: is long-fuffering to us-1ot Luk. 5. 1, 2. He stood by the ward, not willing that any fhould Lake of Gennezareth, and faw perih, but that all fhould come to two Ships ftanding by the Lake, repentance. Rev. 2. 5, 16, 21. Re- &c. member therefore from whence at Joh: 1.42. Thou art Sithou art fallen, and repent, and do15mon, the Son of Jona: thou fhalt thy first works; or elfe I will be called Cephas, which is by interCome unto thee quickly, and re- pretation a Stone. move thy candlestick out of its Place, except thou repent. Repent;

I See on A&t. 16. 10. Mar. 1. 19. And when he or elfe I will come unto thee quick-zohad gone a little further thence, ly, and will fight againft them he faw fames the Son of Zebedee, with the Sword of my Mouth. I and John his brother.

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(2) By the Law and the Prophets are meant the great Rules of Life delivered in the Writings of Mofes and the Prophets, or in the Old Teftament, more especially the Duties of the moral or hatural Law. Thefe our Lord affures us, he did not come to destroy or diffolve: It was not his defign to free Men from the Obligation they were under to practife the moral Laws of God, but to fulfil and perfect them. This our Lord did, by living up to thofe Laws himself, and becoming thereby an Example to us, by freeing them from the corrupt Gloffes which the Teachers among the Jews put upon them, and by expounding them in their fulleft Senfe, and according to their juft Latitude, fhewing, that they command not only an outward Obedience, but the Obedience even of the Mind and Thoughts, as appears from what our Lord delivers in the following Verfes. Thefe Laws have their Foundation in the reafon and nature of Things, and therefore their Obligation will never ceafe. We may as well fuppofe that Heaven and Earth fhould pafs away, as that any of them fhould not be required of us. The Ceremonial Law was diffolved by the Coming of Chrift. For he being come who was figured and reprefented by the Rites, Sacrifices, &c. they were of no further Ufe. But the natural or mo tal Law, which our Saviour has fumm'd up in thefe two Precepts, [the Love of God above all, and our Neighbour as our Selves] is as much in Force now as ever. It is as much a Rule of Life now, as ever it was. And though compleat and perfect Obedience is not made a Condition of Salvation, yet a fincere and univerfal one is. See A.

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