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smoothes and polishes the outward garb, to ren- 

 der that plausible in the eyes of the world : but 

 goes yet further and deeper, even to the heart ; 

 composeth the whole inner man too, and labours 

 to approve that to the righteous judge, who sees 

 not as man sees ; and, in fine, calls us up to that, 

 glorious height of the primitive Christians in Justin 

 Martyr, who obeyed indeed the municipal laws 

 of their country, but out-lived them too, and sur- 

 mounted them far, Toig pioig l^[oig viy.ccvT£g Ts; voi^-ds, as 

 he speaks ; they contented not themselves with 

 . so scant measures, but flew a higher and a nobler 

 pitch, aiming at a more refined and perfect righte- 

 ousness, the worthy effect of God's judgments, 

 and not of man's only ; taught in his school alone^ 

 and not at our tribunals. And, then, 



Lastly, It is righteousness positively, and affir- 

 matively too. For though the decalogue is almost 

 all over negative in the style and form of it; yet, 

 our Lord, by reducing all the precepts of it to one 

 affirmative (love,) and also by his affirmative 

 glosses or additions to it in his sermon on the 

 Mount, seems to have authorized the rule of their 

 exposition, received generally by Christian di- 

 vines, that the negative still infers the affirmative, 

 and that there are many yeas concealed in the 

 bosom of every such no. So that, however it is 

 indeed a part of our duty, not to murder, and not 

 to slander, and not to covet, and the like, (an 

 obligation consequent upon God's prohibition ; 

 and he takes it well, when, for his sake, we ab- 



