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 estates, actions, temptations and afflictions: This is hard to find out, yet it may be found out, if ye have a desire for it, ye may have it.

Sixteenthly, If ye be come unto Christ, then ye will find an admirable change in you, a new Spirit without guile, a new judgment, new desires, new affections, love, hatred, sorrow, joy; new senses, eyes, smelling, ears, taste, feeling. find ye these, or any of these marks really in you, then doubt no more, misbelieve no more, all is sure, ye are come unto Christ, and seeing ye are come unto him, press ay for more and more of his likeness, for a progress in sanctification. Remember, 1 John ii.6. 'He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also to walk even as he walked.' And this leads us unto the third thing in the opening up of this point, to wit, To declare who are his people; they, as we were saying, who are righteous, and live righteously. Now these who are righteous, are these who have fled unto Christ, and they indeed live righteous!y. Yea, to make it more clear, we shall in short tell you who they are who live righteously; These to wit, in a word, 'Who walk as he walked.' The life of Christ can teach us all things.

First, They live righteously, beginning all things with God, referring all things to God. 2dly, They do all things by the warrant of his word, contemning their own wills, that they might do the Lord's: 'Not my will but thy will be done,' they must lose their life, before they lose their obedience. 3dly, They walk holy, 'Be ye holy as I am holy,' John iii. 3. 'Every man, that hath this hope in him, purifieth himself even as he is pure. 4thly, They walk fruitfully, they go about doing good; O sad! not only the unfruitful walking of this generation, but even the stumbling that they are. 5thly, They walk justly, not wronging any; These are they who live righteously, who walk so as Christ walked. O! how few righteous livers are among you, and