Spiritual Peace and Comfort 207 leafs obedient fort offincere Chriffanì cannot by ordi- nary means have any Afurance !and themoff obedient (ifother necefJaries concurr) Will have the moft Af fee- rance : andfor the middle Jort ; their 4ffurance Will rife andfall, ordinarily with their obedience; fo that I re's no Way to comfortfuch 6-ffending Chriflians,but by reducing them tofullerobedience by Faithand Re- pentance, thatfo the evidences of their 74ifcation may be clear, and thegreat) impediments oftheir AP- ranee andComfort be removed. This I will yet make clearer to you by its Rea- fons, and then tell you how to apply it to your felt. z.Noman can be lure ofhis falvation or Juflifica.: tion,but he that is lure ofhis true Faith & Love.And no man can be lure ofhis true Faithand Love,but he that is Pure of the fincerity of his obedience; For true Faith doth ever take God for our great Sove- raign, and Chrift for our Lord - Redeemer, and con- tainetha Covenant-delivery ofa mans felftoGod and the Redeemer to be Ruled by him, as a Subje&, Child, Servant and Spoufe. This is not done fin- cerely and favingly, nlefs there be an a&ual andha- bitual Refolution to obey God and the Redeemer, before all creatures, and againfi all temptations that woulddraw us from him. To obey Chrift a little, and the flefh more , is no true obedience : If the flefh can do more withus to draw us to fin, then Faith and Obedience do tokeepus from fin, ordina- rily ; this is no true Faith or Obedience. If Chrift have not the Soveraignty in the foul, and his Intercít be not the moll predominant and potent, we are no trueBelievers.. Now it isplain, that the Intereft of
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