Baxter - BT785 B39 1657

o6 Dvetionsforgetting and keeping newwine into old crackt bottles, or a new piece into an old garment, that would break them , or make worfe the rent. Ituult therefore freely .tell diele obje- orsl(am lorry that fo many ofmyold acquaintance now harpfo much on this Antinomian firing ) that ignorance or error hath fo blinded them, that they have forgotten, or know not t. What an imperfc:,t piece the belt is in this life, much more the worft true Chriftian. 2. Nor what a fubtil Devil we have to tempt us. 3 . Nor what an ac`dive thing corruption is, and what advantage it will take on unfearonable Af- furanceó 4. Nor what the natureof Qrace and San c ification is; and howmuch of it lies in a godly jea. loude ofour fclves, andapprehenfìonof our danger and that the fear ofGod is thebeginningofwijdorn, See Heb, 4. t . Nay 5. They have forgotten what a man is, and how infoparable from his nature is the Prin- ciple ofPelf prerrvation, and how neceffary the ap- prehenfion ofdanger, and the fear ofevil to bimfelf, is to the avoidingof that evil, and fo to his preferva- tion. 6. Yea if they knew but what a Common. wealth or a family is, they would know that fear of evil,and delire offellprefervation,is the very motive to Affociations,and the groundwork of all Laws and Government, a.iid 'a great part ofthe life ofall Qbe= dience, Añd thus T have fully proved toyou, That the fmdeß ?lea;ure of f Grace, cannot help men to Afm- rince in Godi ordinary way. Perhaps you will fay , What comfort is there in this to a poor weak Chriftian ? This is rather the way to put him quite out ofheart and hope. 1 an- fËwer. No 1110 smatter : I flail film you the cafes of

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