146 VireEiionsforgetting and keeping DIRECTION XVIII. 18. Next, that you may yet fur- ther underítand the true Nature of Affurance, Faith, Doubting and Defperation, I would have you ob- ferve this; That GodBoth not command every man, nor properly anyman ordina- rily by his Word, to Believe that his fins are forgiven, and hint f l f is juft/1ed, adopted,and'hall befared. But he hath prefcribed a way by which they may at- tain to Afurance ofthefeiin which way it is mens Duty to f ek, it : So thatour A f Jurance is not properly that which is cal, led 4 Certainty o fBelief. I Have laid enough for the proofof this Propofi tion in the thirdPart ofmy Book ofRefl,Cwp . i r, whither I muffrefer you. But there is more to be Paid yet for the Application of it. But Ertl I muff briefly tell you the meaning ofthe words. z. God comt andeth us all to believe (wicked and godly) that
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