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and shall enter, when the other shall be shut out. So that, when our Saviour saith, that the Pharisaick Righteousness must be exceeded, the meaning is not, That a greater degree of every thing the Pharisees did, is necessary; but we must do that which in the nature and kind of it is better, and more acceptable to God, viz. That whereas they placed their Religion in strict Fastings, and nice observations of Festivals; in loud and earnest Prayers, and zeal to get Proselytes; we should place ours, in sincere subjection of our wills to the will of God; |
and shall enter, when the other shall be shut out. So that, when our Saviour Says, that the Pharisaic Righteousness must be exceeded, the meaning is not, That a greater degree of every thing the Pharisees did, is necessary; but we must do that which in the nature and kind of it is better, and more acceptable to God, viz. That whereas they placed their Religion in strict Fastings, and Nicaenae observations of Festivals; in loud and earnest Prayers, and zeal to get Proselytes; we should place ours, in sincere subjection of our wills to the will of God; |
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