;o6 The Life of Faith. frith, or rather chiefly in your acquaintance with your felf. Diree r. 8. Yet fill dwell moll upon Gods Promifes in the ex ercifeoflive,defire and tbankfulnefs; and ufeall your fear about the tbreatnings, but in a frondplace, to further andnct tobinder the workof leve. area. 9. La faith interpret all Gods Judgements, meerly by the ligkt of the threatnings of bis Word ; ¡veddo not gatherany conelufions front them, which the Word affordeth not, or aLiowetb nos. Gods 7udgcmetcs may bedangerotflymifunderftood. CHAP. VII. Him to exercife Faith about Pardonoffin andJuftficatien. TH E praólice of Faith about our 3ulißeatiots, is hinder- -( ed by .fo many unhappy controverfies and heretics, that what to do wi.h them herein our way, is not very catie to de- termine : Should I omit the mention of them, I leavemoll that I write for, either under that difeafe it fell, or the danger ofit, which may fruftrate all the ref} which I mutt fay t For the errours hereabout arc fwarming in moli quarters of the Land, and arc like to come to the cars of moti that are flu- diousof thefe matters ; fo that an antidote tomtf, and a vomit to the refl., is become a matter ofnreefftty, to the fucccfs ofall our practical Directions. And yet many cannot endure to be troubledwith difficulties, who are flotbful, and mutt have nothing let before them that will colt them much ttudy; and many peaceable Chriflians love not any thing that foundeth like controverfic or (lute (As others that are Sons of contention relifh nothing elfe) But averfeneßmutt give place to nereity. If the Leprofie arifc, the Prictt mutt [catch it, and the Phyfician mull do his belt to cure it , notwithfianding their natural averfenefe to it. Though I maybe as averle to write againf crrours, as the Reader is to read what I write, we mutt both blame that which caufeth the weepy, but not therefore deny our neccfary duty s But yet I will fofar gratifie them that need v.o mote, as toput the more pral1ical Dircdions fiat, that they
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