166 Direr ions forgettìng and keeping refit} Temptations. We can be no furer of faithful refifting ofTemptations thenwe are fure to be kept in an apprehenfión of our danger. I Iiill fray therefore that the Doctrine of Anti- nomians is the molt ready way to Apoftacy and perdition:and- no wonder if it lead to the Licentiouf- nefs and Scandals which our eves have ken tò be its genuine fruit§ ! They cry down the wexknefs unbeliefand folly of poor Chriflians, that will ap. prebend themfelves in danger of falling away, and to live in fear, after they are once Juflufied ; and that if they fall into fin (as whoredom, drunkennefs, murder, Perjury, deftroying the Minifiry, and ex- pelling the Golpel, &L'.) Will prefently queftion or fear their eftates and their juftification. Such like paffages I lately read in fome printed Sermons of or}e ofmy ancient acquaintance, who would ne- ver havecome to that pals that he is at now, if his judgement and Humility had been as great as his Zeal. I irirreat you therefore never to expea fuch an Af urance as (hall extinguifh all your apprehen- fions isfdanger. Fe that fees not the danger, is ncerefl it,and likely to fall into ir. Only he that feeth and aof rehendeth it, is likely to avoid it He that feeth no danger of falling away is in greateft danger of it. f doubt not but thats the caufe of the Sedirions, Scandals , Heretics, Bloodguíltinefs, Defiroying of the Churches of Chriff , and moft Horrid Apoftacies,Hypocrifie and wickednefs,which thefe late times have been guilty of;that they appre- hended not the danger'of ever coming into fuch a flare, or ever doing fuch things, but would have laid, Am la Dog? co him that fhould have fore- told
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