Extre4ms : Mind your own fin, 2 3 3 Grace ontheir parts, do make.as a jefl of imprste Righteonfnefc (as it is taken in a found and war- rantable fenfe) and do afcribe too much to the works of man. Many who hear the Socinians make faith and obedience to be all one, dodeny that the faith by which we are jufified, is a giving up the foul in Covenant to Chrift intirely in all hisoffice, even as our Redeemer and Lord, and fo anengagement to obedience by fubjetion. And many that hear men fay, that faith jufiifleth us only as an infiru- ment, apprehending Chrifis fatisfa&ion and me- ritorious righteoufnefs as their own, do confonnd our faith and obedience; and forget that the faith by which we are jufiífied, is [ oar becoming Chriftians, or, Afent and Confent to thç Covenant which iie male in Baptifme (nothing more or lets ; ) and not our living as Chrifians in after obedience, which is the fruit or effe& of faith. And, even in civil things, many who obferve how Turkiíh, Tattarian, Japonian,China's, and other Heathenifh and Infidel Tyranny, is the chief Refifier of the Gofpel, and Supprefl'er of Chriflianity to the damnation ofmillions of fouls; And how Papal tyranny, and Mufcovian , and Spanifh cruelties, are the chief Maintainers of igncrirce and unreformednefs in theChurches,are ready hereupon to think dishonourably of Mlo- narchy it felf, and to murmure at the power of ChrifiianPrinces, and to rah into feditions and rebellions. And many that fee the mifchiefs of feditions, confpiraciesiand rebellions, are ready to forget the grand and heynous fin of Tyran- ny, and the calamity of Souls, and Churches, and Kingt
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