394 The Lie of Faith. arcgood works materially, in refped to the Receiver : He may do good to the Church, or Common- wealth, or Poor,. who doth none to himfelf thereby. 19. As the motion is circular from God to man, and from, man to God again (Mercies received, and Duties and Love returned) fo is the motion circular between the heart and the entw rd mats : The heart moving the tongue and band, e, c. and thcfc moving the beam again ; (partly of their corn na- ture, and partly by divine reward ) The Love of God and Goodneßproduceth holy *oughts, and words, and anions; and thefeagain increafe the Love which did produce them, Gal. 5. 6,13. Heb.6.ao. Heb.10.24, 2 John 6.3side 21. 20. The judgment mull be well informed before the d3ifl. refolve. 21. Yet when God hath given us plain infiruttion, it is-a fin to cherifh caufíefs doubts and temples. 22. And when we fee our duty before us, it is not every fcruple that will excufc us from doing its But when we have rie re conviction that it is a duty, then that it is none, or that it is a fin, we muff do it, notwithflanding thefe mitiaking doubts.. As if in-Prayer or Alms -deeds you (hould fcruple the lawfulnets of them, you ought not to forbear, till your feruples be refolved, bccaufc you fo long neglect a daty : Elfe folly might jutlific men in ungodlinefs and difobediencr. 23. But in things.mccrly indifferent, it is a fin to do them - doubtingly; becaufe you may be lure it is no fin to forbear - them,Rom. 14. 23,1 Cor. 8. 13; 14. 24. Anerring Judgment intangleth a man in a,neceflity cf finning (till it be reformed) whether he all or not, according . to it. Therefore ifan erring perfon ask, What am I bound to ? the true anfwer is, to lay by your errour, or reform your Judgment firtl, and then to do accordingly ; and if- he ask an hundred times over [But what muti ['do in cafe I'cannot change my Judgment ?] the fame anfwer muti begiven him, [(fedffill bindeth you to cbangeyour Judgment, and bathgive* you the neceffarymeans of information; and therefore he sell not takeup witbyour fuppofLion, thatyou cannot : Hie Law is afixed Rule, which teletbyouwhatyoumuff believe and chuf, anddo : And.tbit Rule will not change, though you 'be blind, and fay, I e' e<annó1
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