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 know, O believer, ſomething of this, to thy ſweet experience? This ſays that in his righteouſneſs thou art exalted. 3dly, When an arrow of conviction is at any time ſhot by the hand of God into thy conſcience, whereby thy peace and quiet is diſturbed, whither doſt thou run for eaſe and relief? The man that is married to the law, he runs into the law for relief and eaſe; the law is the thing that heals him; his prayers, his tears, his reformation, is that which ſtops the mouth of his conſcience: but as for the believer, he can never reſt on this ſide of the blood of ſprinkling; he gets his healing only from under the wings of the Sun of righteouſneſs. No other balm will give him eaſe, but the balm of Gilead; and no other hand can apply it but the phyſician there. 4thly, If you be exalted by imputed righteouſneſs, you will be the real ſtudents of the goſpel-holineſs. It is a groſs perverting of the goſpel, and a turning of the grace of God into wantonneſs, for folk to pretend that they are juſtified by the merit of Chriſt, while they are not at the ſame time concerned to be ſanctified by the Spirit of Chriſt. Sanctification, or freedom from the power and dominion of ſin, is a part of that ſalvation when Chriſt has purchaſed by his obedience and death. Tit. ii. 14. Who gave himſelf for us, to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himſelf a peculiar people zealous of good works. Juſtification and ſanctification go always hand in hand: he who is made of GadGod [sic] unto us righteouſneſs, is alſo made ſanctification, we are juſtified and ſanctified in the name of the Lord Jeſus, and by the Spirit afof [sic] our God. Try