love thee Men may have notional knowledge parts and gifts and this may but puffe them up with pride and do their souls no good but if a man so know God as to love him and delight in him that is the man that is known of God owned and approved of him Quest what are the signes of love to God Answ 1 High and raised thoughts of God fixed and setled in the heart are a signe of love to God an habituall frame of heart to look upon God as most excellent and glorious and to adore him as well for his holiness and infinite purity as for the exceeding riches of his grace in Christ. It is true a Saints love to God is not come to perfection in this life it is not come to its height by a Thousand degrees yet there is such an impression of love to God upon the heart of a Believer and amongst other things for his wonderful dispensation of grace in Christ that he thinks and well he may that he can never love and prayse the holy Lord as he should do And sometimes it may be his heart waxes hot and this fire of love to God burneth and flameth in him and he can cry out to this effect Oh O Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth and thy glory is above the heavens Look Look O my soul upon this great King the King of glory the King eternal and immortal and admire him and love him for ever O thou infinite goodness O thou Fountain of Life wilt thou vouchsafe to be loved of me O thy condiscention thy condiscention that thou wilt not account it presumption for me to love thee such a poor worm as I am so vile and sinful O blessed Lord if I may love thee then O my base unworthiness that I love thee no more O love love flame out flame out here is thy right object this is he that is to be loved with all my heart with all my Soul with all my might and with all my strength here is infinite power here is infinite wisdom here is infinite holiness here is infinite mercy more love more more love for the holy and blessed lord what shall I love him no more O my soul are thy faculties enlarged to love as far as a poor finite creature is capable to love O my soul love as Jehovah is to be loved love suitably to the Object thou art now set upon love not as if thou wert loving a creature love not at such a poor and low rate but love as one that is loving an infinite and glorious God love as one that is loving him that is love it self and hath manifested it in sending his only begotten Son into the world to save sinners O what manner of love was this and O with what manner of love should this blessed God be loved O Lord thou art above all love above all praise O that ever I have loved any thing else besides thee when there was thy self to love O that ever I should love such a vile thing as sin and such a poor trifle as the world is Lord now set my love right put my heart into the highest pitch of love to thee that poor clay is capable of and there hold me to eternity Thus possibly a poor Believer may sometimes finde his heart raysed to God in love and delight in him however there is a rooted grounded setled affection in the soul of a Believer to God so that he doth not only see reason why he should love God but it is his desire to love him and delight in him above all things though the actings of this love may be much kept down by manisold temptations and by the opposition of the flesh as the actings of other graces in us are also 2. Hating of sin because God hates it because it is displeasing to him is a signe of love to God ye that love the Lord hate evil Psal 97.10 it is not onely their duty to do so but in some measure it is so with every Child of God Though after conversion sin doth yet remain it is hated and abhorred so that it is in the heart to say O Sin what dost thou here thou art not onely my greatest enemy but thou art an enemy to that holy and blessed God whom my soul loveth O when shall I be rid of thee time was when thou and I were all one we were wedded together but now I see it was an unlawful marriage I was to be for the Lord and not for another therefore I will love thee no more O if it be so that thou wilt not leave me till death us do part I wait for that good hour when the Lord will take me to himself that so I may be freed from thee wholly and for ever and be with my heavenly Head and husband 3. Love to the Saints is a sign of love to God he that saith he loveth God and hateth his Brother is a lyar he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4.20 He that loveth not the Image of God in grace and holiness which he seeth in his people how can he love God whom in his glorious essence he hath not seen An universal love to all in whom we see the grace of Christ is a certain sign of our love to God so that one that truly loves God can in some measure appeal to God to this effect O Lord however I have hated thy people in time past and my heart hath secretly risen against them for the good that was in them yet since thou hast been pleased to turn me from darkness to light I make an high account of thy people I look upon them as the excellent on the earth I am troubled that I love them no more and that I can do no more for them I love them not meerly because they are of my judgment in some lesser points but I love them because they fear and love thee because they repent of their sinning against thee and believe on thy Son and desire to walk so as to please thee so far as thou art pleased to give them the knowledge of thy will My heart is knit to them whose hearts are knit to Christ who cleave in their hearts to that one Mediatour that one Offering that one Sacrifice for sins for ever so far as they manifest this they are dear to me they must needs be precious to me to whom Christ is precious And though because of some errours and mistakes that in my poor thoughts I may judge some of them to be in I cannot comfortably joyn with such in some things yet O Lord thou that knowest all things knowest that I love them and though through passion and ignorance and misguided zeal I may carry it unscemly sometimes to some of thy servants and have a hand in their troubles and sufferings as it is possible for the Saints
by the Ministry of the Word as if he himself had spoken immediately from Heaven to them by name and so the Lord hath made that unlikely time the time of love and the Day of his power to their Souls Sometimes when Ministers have been straightned in their affections and expressions in Preaching more then they have used to be that they have gone on heavily in the work and haver reflected upon their service with much humiliation to their own Spirits yet God hath sometimes done much by such weak means and converted some effectually at that time that there hath been more good done at that time then at many other times so far as comes to their knowledge when they have been much assisted in the work God knows how his faithful Servants would preach and set forth his truth and he is pleased to enlarge things by the inward light of his Spirit upon the minds of the hearers sometimes above what they did sufficiently clear to them All these Observations run into this that God worketh all in all he is the Author and Finisher of our Faith and that Ministers can do no good nor People that hear them receive any good but as it is given from above and when he will work nothing shall let it not the ignorant indisposedness and prejudice of the hearers nor the defects and weakness of his Servants that speak in his Name 3. Some of the worst natural tempers not onely of the weakest parts but of most froward and cross Spirits are wrought upon by the grace of God and men of ripe wits and of more affable and courteous natures are never converted unto God Those differences among men that arise from their constitutions of body whether it be for the better or the worse alter not the case God hath mercy on whom he will have mercy God can convert those who are of the worst natural tempers and without he infuse grace those who are of the sweetest natural dispositions will never turn unto the Lord yea the composedness of their natural temper may turn much to their prejudice making them think they are in a good estate because they do not break out into such passions and intemperances that others are very Subject to although they know nothing of any New birth and sanctifying work of the spirit upon their souls 4. Some very dissolute and prophane persons are converted and many others that are free from such gross vice are never born again Publicans and Harlots and such as the theif upon the Cross are sometimes brought to a sight of their sins and to repent and believe in Christ when others that never were so vile go on quietly resting in their formality and morality and never see their need of Christ and a work of grace upon their hearts and so perish for ever When God doth convert men that have been notorious Sinners filled with all unrighteousness drunkards swearers scoffers at Religion and old in sin too habituated and accustomed to all kind of evil he proclames unto us that the power of converting souls is of God and not of man It is true it doth require the exceeding greatness of Gods power to convince a proud Pharisee that trusteth in himself that he is righteous and despiseth the righteousness of Christ that he is in the gall of bitterness and bonds of iniquity and to bring him as a poor lost and undone Sinner to seek for life from Christ and in some respects such have greater difficulties to be carried thorough to Christ then others yet in regard that some of the other sort are so outragious in sin and almost down right Atheists that make a mock and jear of all religion and regard of God and the world to come if the Lord please to convert such as sometimes he doth the exceeding greatness of Gods power shines forth most eminently therein When the passages of mens Conversion shall be known in the world to come it will be matter of everlasting wonderment and astonishment to Angels and men for then it will appear that God is to be admired for his free grace and the exceeding greatness of his power to all that believe Lastly that I may stand no longer upon this Point let us consider a few places of Scripture more that beyond all contradiction to establish this truth that conversion is wrought in the soul of man by the power of God alone It is said the exceeding greatness of his power worketh towards them that believe and that according to his mighty power which wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead Ephes 1.19 20. He that hath wrought us to the self same thing is God 2 Corin. 5.5 Hence it is a very proper expression that wee commonly use when we speak of mens conversion to say they were wrought upon at such a time for indeed except God had wrought them by the exceeding greatness of his power to this self same thing they had never turned from Sin to Christ A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you I will take away the heart of stone and give you an heart of flesh Ezek. 36.26 27. In Conversion the habit of grace is secretly infused into the heart as life into a dead man the soul is passive at first hence it is said of God in reference unto this work Jam. 1.18 That of his own will begat he us of his own will that shews it is of his own meer grace and when it is said he begat us that shews that it is of his own power and that the Soul is first passive in the work When a Soul is converted it doth repent and doth act saith on Christ and is active in a way of Grace but first the Lord begets us spiritually and in uses spiritual life We must not imagine that the soul never acts at all first or last and that there are no created habits of grace but first the Lord infuses the habit of Grace wherein the Soul is passive and the Soul being changed and sanctifyed thereby through the help and influence of the spirit exciting and assisting that New spiritual Life put into us we are enabled to put forth acts of Faith Repentance and other Graces First the Lord puts spiritual Life into us and then in him through his concurrence and secret assistance we move and act spiritually and graciously The summe of all is this God first giveth repentance and then we repent God first giveth faith and then we believe All those Scriptures were it is said that God giveth repentance and giveth Faith and worketh in us to will and to do might all be insisted on for further confirmation of this truth That conversion is wrought by the power of God alone Likewise all those Scriptures that set forth the weakness of the Saints even after they are in the state of grace how they yet cry out to be delivered from the body of death what need they
thick Cloud thy transgressions and will remember thy sins no more Fear not I am with thee be not dismayed for I am thy God be of good cheare thy sins are forgiven thee or the like This question may be moved hereupon Quest When a man hath some promise or word of grace come into his thoughts so as to make impression upon his heart and quiet him as to his feare of the wrath of God how shall he know that this is spoken by the spirit to witness to him that he is the Child of God or whether it be a delusion Answ 1 That the holy Ghost doth sometimes comfort the hearts of believers by some promise or word of grace mentioned in the Scripture is not to be questioned As the Holy Ghost in convincing men of sin and their last estate by nature doth often make use of some places of Scripture as for example the wages of sin is death the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men and setles home the commandments of the Law with the curse anexed to the breach of them in particular to the soul as if the Lord did speak from heaven to that particular person I have said in my Law thou shalt have no other Gods before me But thou hast made riches thy God thy belly thy God thy Name and esteem amongst men thy God therefore thou art cursed I have said in my Law thou shalt not take my Name in vain but thou hast done it I have said thou shalt keep my sabbath Holy but thou hast not regarded it and so thou hast broaken this commandment and the other I have said cursed is every one that continueth not in every thing that is written in the book of the Law to do it therefore thou art under the curse and what wilt thou do As the holy Ghost I say doth often set home such Scriptures to convince men os sin and shew them their need of Christ so doth the Holy Ghost many times make use of other Scriptures that hold forth Gods free grace in Christ both at first to work faith and draw the soul to Christ and afterwards to fill the heart with joy and peace in believing Thefore it is a sign of a prophane heart and destitute of the knowledge of conversion and of the comforts of the holy Ghost to make a mock and jeare of Scriptures and promises given into and set home upon the spirits of men 2. Sometimes promises and words of grace are given into the soul to work grace at that time and not to witness that grace was wrought before for we ordinarily receive the spirit to work grace at first in us by hearing in the preaching of the word or else darted more immediately from God into our souls some promise or declaration of Gods grace in Christ and if that be all our mistake that at such a time when we thought the Holy Ghost set home such or such a promise and word of grace upon our hearts to assure us that we were the Children of God that he did it at that time to work the first special grace in us and unite us unto Christ so that that was the time of our first receiving Christ If this I say be all the mistake it is not dangerous 3. Lastly it must be granted that all that have a promise or word of grace come into their minds yea though it take some impression on them and quiet their thoughts and affect them with a kind of joy for the present have not these words given in by the spirit of God either to work saving grace in them at that time or to bear witness to them that they are in the state of grace for such as are compared in the Scripture to the stony ground do sometimes hear the word with joy and consequently have it come into their thoughts with some flashes of joy and those that fall away do tast of the heavenly gift and after a sort are made partakers of the Holy Ghost Heb. 6. In some of his common motions and impressions upon their hearts as hath been opened more largely before so that for a conclusion of this matter If there be not a work of grace wrought in the heart even an abiding work as well as promises words of grace that transiently and suddenly pass thorough the thoughts we may be fearfully mistaken about our spiritual estates But if we can find such faith in Christ such repentance and such love to God wrought in us as have before been spoken of the more promises and words of grace are cast into our thoughts the better for they strengthen true believers in holiness and communion with God and are as so many love-tokens send them from Jesus Christ by the spirit till they come to him in heaven Hypocrites and notional professours turn such promises and words of grace into wantonness and into a snare to their own souls but true believers get real good by them and lay up these sayings in their hearts and cleave the more unto the Lord in faith and holiness Thus I have endeavoured to shew how we may know we are in the state of grace let me speak a word or two to those that are converted and have had it cleared up to their souls that it is so 10. Praise the Lord for the exceeding riches of his grace Be content yea rejoyce and be thankful whatever sad loss of outward trouble and affliction lye upon you grace hath abounded towards you the Lord hath not dealt so with many others as he hath dealt with you look round about you and see what multitudes lye in wickedness in grosse ignorance and prophaness and live without God in the world what if you be poor in the World you are heirs of Gods Kingdom what if you have not health of body as others have you shall soone leave this ruinous earthly Tabernacle and be with Christ in Paradise and he will also raise up this poor frail body and make it like to his glorious body at the last day what if near relations Father and Mother should forsake you the Lord hath taken you up into his everlasting Armes where he will hold you for ever what though the world hate you and curse you the eternal God hath loved you and blessed you in Christ Rejoycing in the Lord and praising him cont inually are comely for those that are converted and pardoned in Christ O sing and give Praise 2 After God hath once given you a comfortable assurance of your conversion do not call all in question upon every fit of deadness and darkness that comes upon your Spirits Be humbled for the least sin but say not upon every spiritual fall that if there had been truth of grace you had never done thus for after conversion there remaineth in this life flesh and corruption that is not wholy taken away till death Then indeed the house of the Old Man will quite fall and all these
sins which if it had been laid upon us would have been eternal but he overwrastled it made satisfaction put away sin by the sacrifice of himself made peace and obtained eternal redemption for us whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that after he had the iniquities of all his people laid and charged upon him yet he rose again the third day is gone unto the Father and is set down at the right hand of the Majesty in the Heavens By one offering upon the Cross he did the work he being an infinite Person God as well as Man his short suffering was of an infinit value He dieth no more there is no need at all of it in referance unto those for whom he made his soul an offering for sins he hath done the work fully to whom be glory for ever This is the Summ and substance of the Gospel Now if any hearing of the danger they are in of the wrath of God for their sins and sensible of the Rebellion and perversness of their hearts and wayes against God would have a Saviour and a sanctifier that it may go well with them for ever this is he Jesus the Son of God He is not here now upon earth to be seen with bodily eyes he is gone into Heaven and is on the right hand of God Look up to him there with an eye of Faith put your trust in him he is able to save to the uttermost all that come to God by him Get the knowledge of him out of the word search the Scriptures for they testify of him they tell you what he is what he hath done and what he hath suffered to bring us to God Think of him continually prize him set your hearts on him if you flight him you will find there is no other Saviour no other Mediatour no other advocate with the Father If the work be yet to be done even now whilst thou readest these things look to him close with him give up thy self to him to be saved and Sanctified by him fall in love with him you will never repent of your choice Poor soul what saist thou to a Pardon for all thy sins what saist to peace with God what saist thou to eternal life Come to Christ and thou shalt have all these and a New Heart and spirit to walk in holiness and obedience before God too O doth the Lord affect thy heart for he doth this great work that thou art taken with Christ and art a thirst for this water of life then take it freely as excellent and precious as the Lord Jesus is he bestowes himself freely upon poor sinners the best qualification you can have for receiving Christ is to see your need of him and that you are altogether unworthy of him do you see your sins now the multitude of them the hainousness of them let not your sins drive you from Christ but drive you to Christ Come poor sinners come to Christ his blood cleanseth from all sin his righteousness is able to cover all your unrighteousness Come to Christ but with a true Heart to give him all the glory of your salvation and to desire now to have him reign over you and fear not he is mighty to save Jesus is the Lord of glory consider his God-head in your looking to him to take away your sins Never any Patient came to this Phisitian and missed of cure come with all the spiritual Vlcers running Sores and Bloody Issues of sin touch the hem of his Garment by Faith as the Woman in the Gospel did and you shall see there is vertue enough in Christ to make you whole The Devil labours to make men confident and presumptuous when they are going on greedily in sin but when they are convinced of their lost estate and are looking after Christ then he endeavours to puzle them with many doubts and suspitions as if they were past cure and it were too late now to lock after Christ Ah poor souls do not you see that the hand of Sathan is in all this When you went on in ignorance and prophaness he would not endure you should hear when Ministers preached of damnation and now that you are convinced and stopt in your vile courses and are thinking how you may make peace with God now the Devil cannot endure you should hear of Salvation in Christ the Son of God least you should come unto him that you may have life Thus I have set before them that are not yet converted life and death pardon of sin peace with God and eternal life if the Lord giveth them hearts to repent and close with Christ The Wrath of God and eternal destruction If they still go on in their ignorance prophaness and slighting of Jesus Christ If any that read these things shall say in their hearts they shall have peace and shall do well enough whatsoever some zealous preachers say though they cast Gods law behind their backs and never look after a work of Grace and conversion upon their souls the anger of the Lord and his Jealousy shall smoake against those persons and burn against them for ever But if they shall now tremble at the word of the Lord and lay hold upon the offer of Christ believing on his name and submitting unto him their sins shall be forgiven them for his names sake and they shall be the heir of eternal life through him for though the wages of sin is death even eternal death yet the gift the free gift of God is life even eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom be glory for ever Amen FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by Henry Mortlock at the Phaenix in S. Pauls Church-Yard and at the White Hart in Westminster-Hall THe Saints Ebenezer and Pillar of hope in God when they have none left in the Creature Or the godly-mans Crutch or Staff in times of sadning disappointments sinking discouragements shaking dissolations wherein is shewed the Transcendent Excellency of God his Peoples help and hope with the unparalell'd hapiness of the Saints in their confidence in him over-balancing the Worldlings carnall dependance both as to sweetness and safety by F. English A word in season or 3 great dutys of Christians in the worst of times viz abiding in Christ Thirsting after his instruction and submission to his providence to which is added by way of appendix the advice of some Ministers to their people for the receiving the power and practice of godliness in their familys Oct. The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discover'd in reference to First Their service and suffering Secondly their consolations Thirdly their salvation and eternal glory together with the Excelency of the fear of God The goodness and pleasantness of brotherly Love the wisdom of hearing the voice of the Rod repentance the only way to prevent Judgments delivered in several Sermons by William Bridg sometimes Preacher of the Word at Yarmouth Death unstung in 8 Sermons Preached at the Funeral of Tho. Moseley an Apothecary who died July 1669 With a brief Narrative of his Life and Death Also the manner of Gods dealings with him before and after his Conversion drawn up by his own Hand and Published by James Janeway Oct. A Fathers Testament Written long since for the benefit of the Particular Relations of the Author Phineas Fletcher sometimes Minister of the Gospel at Hillgay in Norfolk The voice of one crying in a Wilderness or the business of a Christian both Antecedaneous to Concomitant of and consequent upon a Sore and heavy Visitation represented in several Sermons First Preached to his own Family lying under such Visitation and now made publick as a thank offering to the Lord his healer by S. S. a servant of God in the Gospel of his Son FINIS
OF THE CONVERSION OF SINNERS TO God in Christ The 1. Necessity 2. Nature 3. Means 4. Signs of it WITH A concluding SPEECH to the VNCONVERTED By MARTIN FYNCH a Servant of Christ in the Work of the Gospel Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God John 3.3 Repent therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord Acts 3.19 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be turned unto thee Psalm 51.13 LONDON Printed for Henry Mortlock at the Sign of the Phoenix in S. Paul's Church-yard 1680. TO THE INHABITANTS OF Great GRIMSBY IN THE COUNTY of LINCOLN Salvation in Christ Jesus our LORD IT is said of Paul when he was at Athens his spirit was stirred when he saw the City wholy given to Idolatry Act. 17.17 The Servants of Christ are to have their Spirits stirred with a Holy Zeal for God and with bowels of compassion to the Souls of men when they see People wholy given to ignorance and prophaness That is a good stirring of our Spirits and from the Holy Spirit of God to endeavour to turn men from darkness unto light and from the power of Satan unto God Charity to the Souls of Men is the highest Charity those that know the terrour of the Lord and what a fearful thing it is to fall into the bands of the living God should be very earnest to perswade men to flee from the wrath to come if by any means they may be instruments in Christs hand to save some This small Treatise written in your Town and much for your sakes I dedicate unto you as a Testimony of my love to your souls I write not unto you about controversies and about lesser things my design is higher that is to shew the necessity of the New Birth and the Nature thereof If Persons be truly converted from Sin to Christ though they may erre and mistake in somethings about the manner of the outward worship of God in this World God will sooner or later reveal it unto them or however Pardon it to them through his grace in Christ so that those mistakes shall not hinder their Salvation But if persons be never so right in the outward way of their profession and worship and yet be strangers to a work of grace and conversion upon their hearts they cannot enter into the Kingdom of God There are two sorts of Persons especially with whom I have to do in this Treatise First those that think that the practise of some formalities and outward things will bring them to Heaven without a work of grace and conversion upon their Souls If men think that the being of this or that Church and being of this or that way of outward profession of Religion will bring them to everlasting Life whilst in the mean time they are grossly ignorant of the things of God of loose and licentious lives or unacquainted with a Sanctifying change wrought by the Spirit of God upon their Souls let them consider what is written in this Book to undeceive them and shew them what of necessity must be done or else they are undone for ever The second sort that I deal with in this Treatise are those who though they are for devotion strictness of Life and a change of mens Spirits and ways yet carry it no further then a kind of Civility Moral vertues and reformation of life produced by a meer awe of a Deity and fear of Hell without the true knowledge of Christ and faith in him In true Conversion there is a coming to Christ a receiving of Christ a being Sanctified by Faith in him Christ is little known as the justifier and Sanctifier too of lost and sinful man Christ is made use of by many but as upon the by and for fashion-sake both in the matter of justification and in the business of conversion therefore it is the design of this Treatise to lead men to a more distinct knowledg of Christ and that they may se how God blesseth us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things in him I have not adorned this discourse after the manner of some I Study to set forth the things of God to the meanest capacity I wish what I have written were yet more plain and easier to be understood Now that the God of all grace would bless what I have written to the furtherance of your salvation and to the everlasting good of others who shall peruse it is the prayer of Your Servant in Christ MARTIN FYNCH THE CONTENTS Chap. I. OF the Necessity of Conversion Chap. II. That in the ordinary way of the Lords converting of Souls God doth first work upon men in a more common way making a change upon men which yet falls short of saving work Chap. III. Sheweth what Special Grace and saving Conversion is Chap. IV. Sheweth what outward means God is pleased to make use of in the Conversion of Souls Chap. V. Sheweth that whatsoever outward means the Lord makes use of for the Conversion of Souls the work is done by his own Almighty Power Chap. VI. Sheweth that God converts men at several Ages some in youth some in their latter time as it pleaseth him Chap. VII Sheweth how we may know that we are Converted and passed from death to Life Chap. VIII Is a concluding Speech to the unconverted THE NECESSITY OF Conversion CHAP. I. Of the Necessity of Conversion BEfore I open the Nature of Conversion it is requisite that I should speak something of the Necessity thereof This Proposition therefore I lay down That every Man by Nature is so Degenerated from God so utterly corrupted and tainted by Sin so prone to all Evil so opposite to God and all that is spiritually good that except he be Converted and Changed he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God There is a twofold Misery come upon us by our Fall in Adam First The loss of the Favour of God Secondly The loss of the Image of God in Holiness and Righteousness First We have lost the Favour of God by Sin so that as we are by Nature the Children of wrath Ephes 2.3 God is angry with us Psal 7.11 We are under the Curse of his holy Law Galat. 3.10 The Law curseth us for Original Sin the Law curseth us for Actual Sins The Law pronounceth the Sinner to be vile and abominable to God to be such a One as his Soul hath no pleasure in but will bring into Judgment and punish according to all the Evil that he hath done to provoke the Eyes of his Glory Now from this part of our Misery we are recovered by the Grace of Justification which is an act of Gods free Grace whereby he forgives a poor Sinner for Christs sake all Trespasses and imputeth the perfect and glorious righteousness of Christ as our Mediator and Surety to make him pure clean and without spot in his sight This great