Serm. x z. *watce is pofsible. :95 Fourthly, His gorying and triumphing over all thefe, more than Conquerours.Over- overcome. Fifthly, In whofe lirength it is that we are enabled to keep our fled - faf}nefs,t tat maketh is the.tnore certain,in the flrength of Chrift, and not our own. Sïxchly,4lis confidence,and he had the fpirit of God, 47610-,20,,, J am perfwaded,though fometimes it lignifies no more than a moral periwa- tiota,or probable conjedture,yet it c'och not exclude a certainty of know- I edge, Rom. I4. 14. I know and am perfrvaded by the Lord ?erns Chrifl, that there is nothing unclean of it felf; That is, I certainly know, is mutt therefore be judged by the circumflances of the Text. Seventhly, It is not faid onely, they jhalt not fep4rate, but that they cannot feparace us from the love of God ; whether love be taken active- ly or paffively, for the love wherewith we love God, or the love where- with we arc beloved by God, is not now material ; it is true of both. The fum of this might be gathered up in this Syllogifin. Thofe that may certainly know, that they do fincerely believe, and love Gad, may cer- tainly know that they (hall be toyed a tell believer may certainly know that he doth finccrely believe and love God ; therefore he may certainly know that he Chall be Caved. Thus far of the firíi Argument from our Graces, and the infallible connexion between them and glory,becaufe I may be judged co be too long in this,I will be (porter in the reti, that I may come to the fecond parc of the Cl&eílion. 2. A Believer may know that he shall be Paved, becaufe he may know he bath the fpirit of God dwelling in him. The in- dwelling of the fpirit is proper and peculiar to believers ; for the world cannot receive him, John 14. 17. Tnat they have the fpirit, they may know by the fpecial effeas which he produceth in that heart where he dwells, by his con - vincing,humbling, fandtifying work, I Cor.6.i 1. By inabling them to make progrefs in their fanelification,2Cor.3.18.By his fpecial affiFrance vouchfafed to them in holy prayer, with flghs and groans which cannot be uttered, Rom.8.26,27. By inabling them to mortifie their fins more and more, Rom.8.13. Now by all chele effedts, the in- dwelling of the fpirit ofGod in the heart of a Believer being manife(led , it Both aífure him of th:ee things. Firtl,By the inhabitation of the fpirit, he may know his eternal Ele- &ion, 2 7hef. 2. 13. Becaufe God hath from the beginning chafen you to falvation,through fanhification of the fpirit. P p Secondly, Z. Argument from the inha_. bitat on of the fpirit.
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