Spiritual Peace and comfort. 21 1 not the evidence of the finccrity of his Faith. 3. Morecwer., Affurance and Comfort are Nods gifts ; and withou.athìs gracious aid we cannot attain thern.But God will not give fuck g;"fts to his children while they ftand out in difobedience. , but when they carefully pleafe him. Paternal Jutfice requires this. 4. And it would do them abundance of hurt, and Cod much diflzonour, if he fhould either tell them ju.ft howoft, or how far they may fin, and yet be faved ; or yet fhould keep -up their Peace and Comforts as well in their greateff difobedience, as in their tendereft careful walking with him. taut thefe things I fpoke ofbefore,and formerly elfewhere. You fee then that though force obedient tender Chriffians may yet on feveral occafior:s be deprived ofAffurance ; yet ordinarily no other but they have Affurance : And that Affurance and Comfort will xife and fall with obedience. And for all theAntinormian obje&ions againft thi; as if it were a leadingmen to their own righteoufncfs fromUral., I refer you to the twenty Arguments which I before laid you down to prove that we may andmuff fetch our Affurance and Comfort from our own works and Graces : and fo from our ocva Evangelical Ri'gfiteoufnefs, which is fubordinàte to Chriffs Righteoufnefs (whichhe fpeaks of, Mat.z5'. laff arid in foully places more ; ) though we muff have no thoughts of a Legal Righteoufneff (accordm ing to the Law of Works or Ceremonies) in our felves. They may as well fay, that a woman doch forfake her husband, becaufe fhe comforted') her fell in this that the bath not forfaken hirn,or been fa! le and unchaft, thence gathering that he will not Rz
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