( 306 ) Lion you will confent to be well, I will be your Phyfitian, and give you this Medicine, perhaps bitter and unpleafant. Yet for my part I fpeak not this,as thinking it meet to make any partition in this bufinefs, nor to feparate what God bath joyned :l think it htteft to fay that it is receivingChrift ashe isOffered,that is the condition, even whole Chrift with thewhole heart : even againft his pardoning Grace, nature may rife indirealy and by accident: but ii we were neceflitated to make a difference or feparation, and mull make oneonly or chiefly the condition ofPardon, it Teems it would be rather willingnefs to be ruled, then to be Par- doned. 9. Another common Affortion is this, that i. RefutingChrifls - L AReign and government is a fin that certainly condemneth all that live and die in it. 2. And that Atlualcontinuance in grofsfin is damning. As. Mr. Shephard faith, fincere Convert pag. 258. Though thy good Duties cannot Pave thee, yet thy badWorksAtill damn thee. e"Ind pag. 246. tWo things /qv a man from Chrift. Y. Sin. 2. Self. And indeed the Lord Jefus faith exprefly There mine enemies that would not I Amid reign over them, bring hither and flay them beforeme, Luke I 9. 27. And I Joh. 3, 8,9, 10. He that committeth fin is ofthe Devil ; whofoever is born of Godfinneth not. In this the children of god are manifefi, and the children of the Devil ; whofoever doh not Righteotifnefs ss not of Clod, &c. Eph. 5.5,6. Ye know that no whoremonger, nor Vnclean perfon, nor Covetous man, who is an Idolater, bath anyhtheritance in the Kingdom ofChrili and ofGod. Let no man deceive youwithva'n Words ; For becaufe ofthefe things cometh the wrath ofGod upon the children of difobedience, I Cor. 6. 9 ,10. Know ye not that the unrighteous jball not Inherit the Kingdom ofGod ? Re not deceived Neither .Fornicatorr, &c. Gal. 5. 19,20, 21,24. Rom, 8. 9, 13. All this is believed by our Divines, for they believe Godsword to be true. And is it not then undeniable, That I Accepting Chrift to reign over us, 2. And fincerely obeying him , are condttions without whith we cannot continue Juftthed, ( nor be juitwitied h7
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