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before, fpakeofitasathing already paft, andia
the 29th, verfe acknowledges his own miferable
ftate, as being Poor and forrowful in bimfelf ^ but
feeing there was Salvation to be had ftqfn Ghrifl,
th^t is fuificient to comfort him, he pours out
tbisEarneft Prayer to Goa, Let thy falvation^ O
Cod^ fet m^ Hp on hkh ! and w hat would David
do then ? / will praife the name of Cod with a Song^
and win magnifie him with thankjgiving : And this
refulted from the fence he had upon blm, of
that fall fatisfadtion God had accepted for Sinners
in the facrifice of his Son, as is plain from
the fcope of the place, and is alfo fijlly exprelb
in the verfe following v this (viz> the Sacrifice
of Chrift) Ihall pleafe the Lord better ihan
all the Sacrifices under the Law, which were
but Types of him, who is the great and nioft
acceptable Sacrifice ^ and therefore he puts
do^Xi Inflar omnium^ an Ox or Ballock, the moft
chargeable 6f their Sacrifices.
From hence you may fee. It dotb not refpeft
his mode of praifing God, but the matter of it,
the Sacrifice
of Chrift.
I have now replied to al) thofe ways by which he
bath attempted to prove their mode of finging
or moral Duty, and have fhewn you,
a natural
that his Aflertion from thofe Topicks is altogether
groundlefs, and therefore muft fall together
with his large Superftrudure he hath built
upon it.
I had a purpofe in this place to have made
itmanifeft, that the Light of Nature, when it
was at the height of its perfedlion, as it was va
Adam in the day of his Innoccncy, was not
capable ( without Divine Revelation ) to in-
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