-168 Directions forgetting and keeping if there: had been no apprehenfions of danger : Would they take Phyfick when they are tick ? Would they avoid fire , or water, or thieves, but through an apprehenGon of danger ? Let them talk what they pleafe, of ever they efcape hell, with- out a deep apprehenfion of the danger of it , it muff be in a way not known by Scripture or by Nature. Sure I am Paul did tame his body and bring it in fubjeetion , through an apprehenfi- on of this danger, left when he had Preached to others, himfelf íhould be a calf-away or reprobate, z Cor. 9.27. And Chrift himfelf,when he biddeth us, Fsar not them that can 10 the body (whom yet thefe men think it lawful to fear and fight againft) yet chargeth us with a double charge, foFear him that is able to deliroy both bodyand foul in hell : yea 1fay unto you, faith Chrift, fear him, Luke z 2. 5. What can be plainer ? and that to his Difciples ? My de tefiation of thefe deffruc`tive Antinomian Principles, makes me to run out further againft them then I in-` tended : Though it were eafie more 'abundantly to manifeft their hatefulnefs:But my reafons are thefe : i. Becaufe thefe Mountebanks are Rill thrufling in themfelves, and impudently proclaiming their own skill, and the excellency of their remedies for the cure of wounded confciences and the fetling of peace : when indeed their receipts are rank poifon, guilded with the precious name of Chrift and free- (3race. a. Becaufel would not have your doubt- ings cured by the Devil ; for he will but cure one difeafe with another, and a leffer with a far greater. Ube can fo cure your fears and doubtings as to bring you into carnal fecurity and prefumpti-on, be will
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