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selves. "For you are fairer than I am,” said one; and, "You are more comely than I am," said another. The children also stood amazed to see into what fashion they were brought.

The Interpreter then called for a man-servant of his, one Greatheart, and bid him take sword, and hemlet, and shield; "And take these, my daughters," said he, "and conduct them to the house called Beautiful, at which place they will rest next." So he took his weapons and went before them; and the Interpreter said, "God speed." Those also that belonged to the family sent them away with many a good wish. So they went on their way, and sung:

"This place has been our second stage;
Here we have heard and seen

Those good things that, from age to age,
To others hid have been.

"The dung-hill raker, spider, hen,
The chicken, too, to me

Hath taught a lesson; let me then
Conformed to it be.

"The butcher, garden, and the field,
The robin and his bait,
Also the rotten tree doth yield
Me argument of weight.

"To move me for to watch and pray,
To strive to be sincere ;

To take my cross up day by day,

And serve the Lord with fear."

Now I saw in my dream that they went on, and Greatheart. went before them: so they went and came to the place where Christain's burden fell off his back, and tumbled into a sepulchre. Here, then, they made a pause; and here, also, they blessed God. "Now," said Christiana, "it comes to my mind what was said to us at the gate, to wit, that we should have pardon by word and deed; by word, that is, by the promise; by deed, to wit, in the way it was obtained. What the prom

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ise is, of that I know something; but what it is to have pardon by deed, or in the way that it was obtained, Mr. Greatheart, I suppose you know; wherefore, if you please, let us hear you discourse thereof."

GREATHEART. Pardon by the deed done is pardon obtained by some one for another that hath need thereof: not by the person pardoned, but in the way, saith another, in which I have obtained it. So then, to speak to the question more at large, the pardon that you, and Mercy, and these boys have attained was obtained by another, to wit, by Him that let you in at the gate; and he hath obtained it in this double way. He has performed righteousness to cover you, and spilt blood to wash you in.

CHRIS. But if he parts with his righteousness to us, what will he have for himself ?

GREATHEART. He has more righteousness than you have need of, or than he needeth himself.

CHSIS. Pray make that appear.

GREATHEART. With all my heart; but first I must premise that he of whom we are now about to speak is one that has not his fellow. He has two natures in one person, plain to be distinguished, impossible to be divided. Unto each of these natures a righteousness belongeth, and each righteousness is essential to that nature: so that one may as easily cause the nature to be extinct, as to separate its justice or righteousness from it. Of these righteousnesses, therefore, we are not made partakers, so as that they, or any of them, should be put upon us, that we might be made just, and live thereby. Besides these, there is a righteousness which this person has, as these two natures are joined in one; and this is not the righteousness of the Godhead, as distinguished from the manhood; nor the righeousness of the manhood, as distinguished from the Godhead; but a righteousness which standeth in the union of both natures, and may probably be called the righteousness that is essential to his being prepared of God to the

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capacity of the mediatory office which he was to be entrusted with. If he parts with his first righteousness, he parts with his Godhead; if he parts with his second righteousness, he parts with the purity of his manhood; if he parts with his third, he parts with that perfection that capacitates him to the office of mediation. He has, therefore, another righteousness, which standeth in performance, or obedience to a revealed will; and that is it that he puts upon sinners, and that by which their sins are covered. Wherefore he saith, "As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” (Rom. v. 19)

CHRIS. But are the other righteousnesses of no use to us? GREATHEART. Yes; for though they are essential to his natures and office, and so cannot be communicated unto another, yet it is by virtue of them that the righteousness that justifies is, for that purpose, efficacious. The righteousness of his Godhead giveth virtue to his obedience; the righteousness of his manhood giveth capability to his obedience to justify; and the righteousness that standeth in the union of these two antures to his office giveth authority to that righteousness to do the work for which it is ordained.

So, then, here is a righteousness that Christ, as God, has no need for, for he is God without it; here is a righteousness that Christ, as man, has no need of to make him so, for he is perfect man without it; again, here is a righteousness that Christ, as God-man, has no need of, for he is perfectly so without it. Here, then, is a righteousness that Christ, as God, as man, as God-man, has no need of, with reference to himself, and therefore he can spare it-a justifying righteousness, that ne for himself wanteth not, and therefore he giveth it away; hence it is called "the gift of righteousness." (Rom. v. 17.) This righteousness, since Christ Jesus the Lord has made himself under the law, must be given away; for the law doth not only bind him that is under it "to do