408 The. Life of Faith. in a holy fruitful life; and fay that they were long enough Le- gal as, and knew.r.ot Free Grace, but lookt all after dciag,and finterhing in tbemfilves; and then they could have no peace; but now they lee their errour, they will know nothing but Chrift. And thus that narrow fooli(h foul cannot ufe Repen- tance'without ncglehing Faith in Chri(i; and cannot Life Faith, but they mull neg!e& Repentaner; yea -let Faith and Repentance, Love and Ohedienci in good works, like enemies or hindrances againli each other : They cannot know themfelver 2nd their finfulmfl, without forgetting Chrift and his righte- oufnefs : And they cannot know Chrift, and his Love, and Grace, without laying by the knowledge or refinance of their fin. They cannot magnifie Free Grace, untels they may have none of it, but lay by the ore of it as to all the works of hon.' nefs, becaufe they mutt look at nothing in themfelves, They cannot magnifie Pardon and Juftification, unlefs they may make light of the fin and punifhment which they deferve, and which is pardoned, and the charge and condemnation from which they are juflified : They cannot give God thanks for remitting their fin, unlefs they may forbear confining it, and forrowing for it. They cannot take the Proniife to be free, which givcth Chrift and pardon of fin, if it have bUt this condition, that they (hall not rijed3 him : Nor can they cari it the Gofpcl, unlefs it leave them manerlcfs and lawlefs; whereas. there is indeed no filch thing as Faith without Rr- penteuce, nor Repentance without Faith: No love to Chrifì without the keeping of his Commandments ; nor no true keeping of the Commandments withóut Love : No Free Grace without a gracious fanaifìcd heart' and life ; nor no gift of Chrift and Juílification, but on the condition of a b:lieving acceptance of thegift ; and yet no inch believing but by Free Grace: No Gofpcl without the Law of Chrilt and Nature ; and no mercy and peace but in a way of duty. And yet filch BedlamChrittians are among us, that yon may hear them in pangs ofhigh conceited zeal, infulting over the folly of one another, and in no wirer language, than if you heard one lu- natick perfon fay, Iantfor,healtb, and not for medicine; and another, Iam for medicine, and not for' the raking of it ; and another, I am for th'e Phyfick, and not.for the Phyftcian; and another,
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