148 Dirertí'ons forgetting and keeping Relieve. Reafon, or Difcurfive Knowledge faith, `wherefore f am fufified and IhaII be laved. Only .I mull advife you, that yoube not troubled when you meet with that which is contrary to this in any great Divines For it is only our former Di- vines, whole Judgements were partly hurt by hot Difputations with the Papifls herein, and partly not come to that maturity as others fnce them have had opportunity to do. And therefore in their Ex- polirions of the Creed, and fuck like paffages in the Text, they eagerly infili on ir, that when we fay, We Relieve the Forgivenefs offin, and Life ever- la ling, every man is to profefs that be Believeth that his own fins are forgiven, and he (hall have life everlailing himfeif. But our later Divines, and fpecially the Englifh, and molt efpecially thefe that deal moil in Praeticals, do fee themi- fake, and lay down the fame doarine which I teach you here, God bids us not Believe as fromHim, more thenhe bath revealed. But only one of thePropofi- tions is revealed by Gods Teftimony, He that be- lieved) fh .411 be Saved. But it is no where written that rote do Believe, nor that You /hell be Saved; nor any thing equivalent. And therefore you are not commanded to Believe either of thefe. How the Spirit revealeth thefe, I have fully told you already. In our Creed therefore we do profefs to believe xemifon of fins to be Purchafed by Chrifis death, and in his Power to give, and Given in the Gospel to All on Conditionof be- lieving in Chrifl himfeif for Remiflon : But not to believe that our own fins are Actually and Fully Pardoned. My
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