94 VacPoo? '1.5anz famiÏp lSoo f. been with Paul in the fhipwrack when he Paid, here ,Mall not a hair ofyour headperil!): But if thefe ftaynot in the ¡hip, you cannot be faved ? ] Would you have Paid, He preacheth defJiair; go forth and fear not? What ifyou had heard Chrift himfelf fay, yoh.3.3, r. [Verily Ifay unto thee, except a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the King- domof God ? And Matth. 18.3. Except ye be Con. vertedand become as little Children , ye cannot enter into the Kingdom ofHeaven ? Or Luk. 13.3, 5 . Ex- ceptye Repent ye ¡hall all peril)) ?] Would you have laid Believe himnot : He preacheth depration ? What ifyou fay to your fervant, If thou do not work, thou (halt have no wages, Shall he fay I will not defpair, but I will hope well though I work not ? What do you by this talk but the fame that the Devil did to Eve? God faid,In the day thong eatefl thou¡halt die : The Devil Paid, re ¡hall not furely die. Did God preach de- fpair, and the Devil preach better? Till men defpair ofbeing faved without Holinefs, they will never lèek Holinefs, and fo never be faved. I do defpair that ever the Devil Mould make good his word, and fave any fouls that God hathPaid, {hall nor be faved ? " El. Chrift came to abolifh the Law, and let up " the Gofpel : And you preach nothing but the Law ;' "When mercy better befeemeth the mouth ofa Gofpel " Preacher. P. Do I preach either the Law of Innocency, which giveth no pardon, or the Jewifh Law ? It was thefe that Chrift abolilhed (in a fort) and not his own Law of Grace. Doth not he preach mercy, who proclaim- eth pardon to all that will truly Repent, and turn to God by faith in Chrift ? Repentance and Converfion areGofpel mercies. The Law knoweth nulace for Repen-
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