(2,8O) they may not preach it. I ft/mole they whom I gainfay will grant all this : And what a preachingikthen we may expe6t from Anti- nomians, and to what advantage to poor hardened finners you may judge. They can tell them no more of their mill-Ty, but that they are nor Juitified in confcience, and that it is uncertain whe- ,ther they are abfolved or not. It may be you Infidels haveRight falvation, and it may benot, but affurance, feeling and poffef- fionyou have not : They cannot fay without equivocation, you are shut upunder fin, and guilty before God, in the gall of bitter- nefs and bond of iniquity, having no part nor lot in this matter ; Your damnation is Suit, the wrath of God abideth on you , you . arecondemned already, unrighteous, the children of wrath, This is Legal preaching, though to Infidels ! They cannot know the Elea Infidels from the Reprobate, and therefore they can- =not fay they are miferable. Nonor tell them how they may know .it-themfelves neither : Though We could not tell an Hypocrite , that he is miferable, yet wecan tell him how himfelfmayknow it: but focannot they, not to the Affemblies of Heathens , nor any one:of them ; nor of the prophaneft men. Only that they want Affurance and Holynefs they can tell them : but not that they want Abfolationfromguilt of death, andfrom obligation to punifh- , ment, or that they want Right to falvation,Have thefe men learn- ed to difference between the righteous and the wicked, him that ferveth God, and him that ferveth him not ? Are fuch Preachers as the mouth of God, thatdifference no more between the pre- tious and the vile ? yea that call thevile pretious ? Is fuch preach- ing liker to make Saints or Libertines ? Make them, did I fay ? Rather manifeft them, and confirm them in I mpenitency ? I blefs ' God for it, I hear none of this preaching in our Country. I never heard one in the Pulpit tell all the prophane ; For ought you or I can tell, you may all be Abfolvedfrom the guilt ofdeath, and obliga- tion to Panifliment long ago, thoughnot as Termnated inyour Con_ fciences. And i hope fome men that are, of this opinion, ufe not to preach it, yea ufe to preach contrary.I have fo oftenheard mif- taken Difputers preach foundly and Orthodoxly to the vulgar that I have loved preaching, ( and fpecially to the vulgar) the better ever fince, and difpucing comparatively the lefs : Aad fpe- daily in Prayer to God, I do oft hear the Heterodox pray fo Or- thodoxly, that I am yet more in love with Prayer, and hope that many
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