VacPoflF ano famíip'ZoLk 91 too fure ? It is not you nor I that are the Judge of fouls, but God : And his Laws are the Ruleof his Judgment. His word tells us who it is that he will fave. If I tell any man that Chrift will not fave hits, to whom the Gofpel promifeth Salvation , condemn me and fpare not. But ifyou tell any man that God will [aye him , towhom God bath fpoken no fuck thing, but the con- trary, what wrong can be greater to God and him ? And as tohis good life which you talk of, Faith and Repentanceand the Love of God, and a holy life, are mattersof another nature than all that you have Paid. Pardon me for tellingyou, that you fpeak out of your Element, like an unlearned man about Law, or Phy- fck, and not like one that had made Divinity the Rudy ofhi,s life, as we have done. I have but enquired of the man himfelf, how the cafe 'landed' with his Soul, and fet the word of God before him, and directed him how to judge hirnfel . Ask him Whether he bath lived by Faith or fenfe,after the Spirit or after thefiefh ? Whe- ther he 'lath (c) Loved God or pleafure better ? Whether he bath fought Heaven or Earthly profjerity with the greater care and diligence ? If he have, I will allure him that he is in a Stare of Grace : It's he that mull anfwer you. " El. Areyou a Preacher, and think that to frigh- tenmen and call them into terreurs is the way to mend "them? 'r is Believing well, and Hoping well that is " the way to Salvation. P. Believing and Hoping falfly, is not Believing and Hoping well. He that knoweih not and feareth not a danger, will not fufticiently labour to efcape ir. Did (c) 2 rim.3.4..Nlct.6.20,2r,23. you
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