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fer; mercy and bounty to them that need ; good- 

 ness and peaceableness, and charity to all the 

 world : these are all parts of this great lesson, and 

 whatever else may help to denominate us the 

 righteous nation that keepeth the truth, (as it is 

 in the second verse of this chapter,) or the city in 

 which dwells righteousness. 



2. But then as it is righteousness indefinitely, 

 the * Commandment exceeding broad, as David 

 speaks, wide in the extension ; so it is also as 

 deep in the intention, it is righteousness internally 

 and spiritually too ; as being a righteousness 

 taught us by God's, and not by man's, judgments 

 only, and consequently must have an effect pro- 

 portionable : it is When thy judgjneyits are in the 

 Earth, Men will learn. — As the Jews, while their 

 fear towards God was taught them by the pre- 

 cepts of men, drew nea*>-4:o him, and honoured 

 him with their mouth only, but removed their 

 hearts far away from him, Isai. xxix. 13. Upon 

 the same ground, our righteousness will never 

 exceed the righteousness of Scribes, and Pharisees, 

 hypocrites ; must needs prove noise and appear- 

 ance only, a mere and vain semblance, if we learn 

 it in no higher school than man's : take it forth 

 from the Twelve Tables only, not from the Two, 

 and have no other tutor in it than Solon, or Ly- 

 curgus, or Justinian. For the derivation can re- 

 turn no higher than the fountain-head ; and what 



* Ps. cxix. 96. 



