The Life of Faith. ICot, 6 9, 1o. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not in- herit the Kingdom of Gad? Be not deceii.d; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, xor effeminate, nor abufees of thena- feives with mankind,nor thieves, nor covetous, n:r drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, /hall inherit the Kingdom of God. And fuck were foie ofyou ; but ye are tn.ijbrd, but ye arepose:l i f ed, but ye arejustified, Û'c. Korn. 8. 1, 13. There is no condemnation to them that are in chi-if} lefuá, who walk not after theft lie, but after the Spirit. ,lfye live a ter the fi jh, ye fhall di , &c. Gal. 5. 2o, 2i, 22, 23, 24. 2. And th re arc many fins which confid with true grace, whichwill not conga with the afurance of its sincerity. And that t. From the nature of the things ; becaufc the lead de- gree ofgrace conjund with, and clouded by thegreateff de- 'gree of fin which may confift with it, is not difcernable to to him that hath it : He that is fo very near a Rate of death, and fo very like to anunjuffihed person, can never be lure, in that cafe, that he is juft fled. 2. And alfa God in Wisdom and Jullice will have it to ; that fin may not be encouraged, nor p-efumption cherished, nor the comfor.s which are the re- ward of an obedient child, be call away on an uncapable child in his llubborn difobedience, Pfal. 5 t. & 32. & 77. Therefore for a man that livcth in gral tin,to fay that he is fure thathe is juflified, and therefore no fin thall make `him quell.on it ; is but to believe the Antinomian Devil transform- ing himfclf intoan Angel of L*ght,and his Militias when they call themfclves the lylinifters 41Zighteoufneß; acid to deny be- lief to theSpirit of Holiness and Truth. And it a true Be- liever thould come very near fuch a slate of death, common rieafon, and the due care of his own foul, oblige.h him to be suspicious of himfclf, and to fear the word, till he have made fore of better, Heb. 6. & 3.1o. Heb.4. i, & 12,13, 14.1 Gor.1o. lobos 15. 2, 7, 8, &c. Dined. 14. Let not the perfaafiox that you are juffified, snake you morefecure and bold infinning, but more to bate it, as contrary to the ends ofJseffification, and to the love which freely juftifiedyou. It is a great mark ofdifference between true afuranc.e, and blvd 319
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