Spiritual) Peace and Comfort. 3ot bringyou tofabrn t to the Ordinance of Baptifm : and upon this many have been Rebaptized, and put their foot into the fnare which I have yet feen fewefcape and draw back from. Another comes and tels the troubled font, It is Legal Preaching, and lookingg at fomething in yourfelf for Peace and Comfort, which bath brought you to this difirefr As long as youfoldw thefe Legal Preachers, and read their Books, and look at any thing in your felf , and fee( Bfuranee from Markswithin you , it will never be better With you. Thefe Preachers underfland not the nature of free Grace , nor ever tailed it themfelves, andtherefore they cannot Preach it, but defpife it. You muff know that Graceù fo free thatthe Covenant kath no Condition : YouanuP believe and not look after the Marks : and Believing is but to be perfwaded that God is Reconciled toyou, andbath forgiven you foryou are Ju.s`ified beforeyouwere born ifyou are one ofthe EIet1, andcan but Believe it ; It is not any thing of your own by whichyoucan be 7uflified : W_or is,it any finof yours that can unfuflifie. It is thewitnefs of theJ irit only perfwading you of your Jollification and Adoption that cangiveyou Af furance ; and fetching itfromany thing inyourfelf, ar but a refling onyour own Righte- teoufnefs, andforfakingChr . When the Antino- mianbath but lung this ignorant Charm to a poor Soul as Ignorant as himfelf, & prepared by terrours to entertain the impreílion, prefently it ( oft) takes and the (innerwithout a wonder ofMercy is undone. This Dorine which fubverteth the very fcope of the Gofpel , being entertained, fubverteth his Faith and Obedience : and ufually the Libertifni of his opinion is feen in his Libertyof Confcience, and Li- centious
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