29Z Dtreatons forgetting andkeeping tercifion of Juflification be never fo certain yet when a mans obedience is fo far overthrown , his former Evidences and Perfwafions of hisJuflificati- on will be uncertain to him.. Though he have no Reafon to think that God is changeable, or Juflifi. cation will be loft, yet he bath Reafon enough ro queflion whether ever he were a trueBeliever, and fä were ever Juflified. For Faith worketh by Love: and they that Love Chrift will keep his Command- ments. Libertines and carnal men may talk their pleafure: but when Saran maintains not their Peace, fin will break it : and Dr. Sibs words will be found true, Souls Conflit , pag. 41, 42. Though the main pillar ofour Comfort be thefree forgiveneis ofourfins, yet ifthere be a negleti of growing in Holinefr, the foul will never befeundly quiet, becaufe it Will 6e prone to queflion the truthof Juflification : and it is as pro- per for fin to rai%e doubts andfears in the Confcience, as for rotten fle.& and Wood to breed Worms : Where there ù not a pure Confcience, there is not apacified Confcience, &c. Read the reff., This much I have been fain to premile, left my words for Confolation fhould occafion fecurity and defolation. But now let me defire you toperufe the -Dire&ion, and practice it. IfwhenGodbarb given you Affurance, orflrong probabilities of yourfìn- cerity, you will make ufe ofit but only for that pre- kilt time, you will never then have a fetled Peace in your foul : Befides , the great wrong you do to God, bynecefiitating him to be fooften renewing fuch difcoveries, and repeating the fame words to you- fooften over. If your Child offend you, would you have him when he is pardoned no longer to be- lieve
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