(44) Confcience in fuch a Bate of Hypocrifie ? If God and Holinefs had not your chiefLove ( as well as Fear ) you were but an Hypocrite. And here give me leave to repeat what I have oft written : What wonderis it at any Mans turningPapiff? when according to your own Principles, no Proteftant, Puritan, or other Chriftian turneth Papiff, that doth not therebydeclare that he was a falfe-hearted Hypocrite before, and had no trueLove to God in his Heart : And was not this your cafe ? For, t. You affirm that all Men that have true prevalent Love to God are in a Rate of Grace, and have right to Salvation, ( till they lofe it : ) 2. You affirm that nene ofus are in a Rate of Grace and Salvation, that are not ofyour Church, that is, the Sub- jeas ofthe King, or Pope of Rome : 3. Therefore it fol- loweth that you take nonebut fuch Subec`l:s or Members ofyour Church, tohave the true prevalent LoveofGod. But you know that in our Chriftian Covenant and Pro- fefhon we all take God for our God, the infinite and moil amiable Good, our Father inChrift, and Love it felf, and that Faith working by Love is our Religion: Andif any Man, faith Saint Paul, love not the Lord 7efus Chrifl, let hirebe Anathema Marana tha : And he that loveth the world, the Love of the Father u not in him, i 7oh. 2. 15. So that by turning Papift you confers that before you were no trueChriftian., nor had any true Love to God and Godlinefs, nor to Jefus C'nrift : And if fo, you were a falfe-hearted Hypocrite : For as a Chriftianyou profeft and Covenanted it. Andwhat wonder then ifGod for- fookyou andgave youup to iirongdelufaons, when you would not receive theTruth in the Love of it, that you might be faxed, z Thef. 2. And note here, that if any Man know that he truly loveth.
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