Spiritual Peace and Comforté DIRECTION XXV. 25. My next advice (hall be Cottle- what near of kin to the former. If you would learn the mof+ expediti, ous way toPeace and fetled Com- fort [ Study °yell the 4rt ofDoing Good : and let it be your ervery dales contrirvance, careand bufinefs, howyou may layout all that God bath truftedyou with, to thegreatefl pleafingofGod, and toyour moil comfortable account. 3 253 Till remember ( left any Antinomian should tell you that this favours of Popery , and truñing for Peace to our own Works. ) z. That you mutt not think of giving any of Chritís Honour or Office to your belt works. You mutt not dream that they can do any thing to the fatisfat ion of Cods'Juftice for your tins : nor that theyhave any proper Merit in them, fo as for their worth to oblige God to Reward you : cor that you mutt bring them as a Price topurchafe Chrift and Heaven : nor that you have anyRighteoufnefs or Worthinefs in your feltand Works, which the Law ofWorks will fo denominate or own. But onely yQU mutt give Obedience itsdue under Chrift ; and fo you honour Chrift himfelf, when thofe that detra& from Obedience to him ,. do difhonour him: and you
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