Spiritual Peace and Covfo-rt.. 59 i Having thus filmed you how far you may expea the Witnefs of the .Spirit , and how .:. far you ma.y and mua make ufe of Marks , and Q2alcations, or ACTions of your own:, for tie obtaining of Affurance and retied Peace ; I !hall alidt an AníWcr to the 'Principal Objedions of the. Antinornians againa this. . Objecrl. ( They fq) This is to draw men from Chrifl to themfelves,:- and from the Gofpel to the Law to lay their Comforts, and build their Peace upon any thing in themfclves,- is to fort Chria and make themielves their own Saviours: and thole Tuchers that perfwade them to this, are Te.achers of the Law, and falle Prophets, who draw men from Chrill to thernfelves. All our own Righteoufnefs is as a merOruous cloth,and our bell works are fin,and therefore we may rot take up our Affurance or Comforts from them. We fhall be always at un- certainties, and at a lofs,or unconaant,up and down in cur Comfortg, as -long as we take them from any figns in our felves. Alfo our own -Graces are In- perfed, and therefore unfit to be the Evidences for our Affurance. Becauf-e i am not now purpofely confuting the Anrinomians, but only fore-arming Tot.againit their aaaults;1 (hall not therefore give you half that I fhould otherwife fay, for the Explication of this Point,and the Confutation oftheir Errors ; but only fo much as is necefrary to your prefervation, Which I do, becaufe they pretend to be the only Preachers offree Grace,& the only right Comforters of trou- bled Conrciences ; andbecaufe they have writtenfo Many books to that end,whi,:b if they fall into your bands
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