Spiritual peace and Comfort. 307 and terrors do but make unwilling Hypocritical Pro- feffors. This makes me remember how : have heard forne Preachers ofthe times blame their Brethren for not Preaching Chritt to their people, when they Preached the danger of rejectingChriR, difobeying him, and refitting his Spirit. Do thefe men think that it is no preaching Chrift ( when we have firft many years told men the fulnefs of his fatisfaction, the freenefs ar.d general extent of his Covenant or Promife, and the riches of his Grace,and the income prehenfiblenefs ofhis Glory, and the Truth of all ) to tell them afterwards the danger of refuting, neg- lecring , and difnbeying him ? and of living after the flefh, and preferring the world before him? and ferving Mammon, and falling off in perfecution, and avoiding the crofs, and yielding in Temptation, and quenching the Spirit, and declining from their fiqt Love, and not improving their Talents, and not forgiving and loving their Brethren, yea and ene, hies ? mac. Is noneof this Gofpel ? nor preaching Chrift ? yea is not Repentance it felf ( except defpairing Repentance) proper to the Gofpel, fee- ing the Law excludeth it, and all manner of hope. Blame me not, Reader, if 1 be zealous againft thefe men, that not only know nobetter what preaching Chrift is, but in their ignorance reproach their Bre- thren for not preahcing Chrift, andwithal! condemn Chrift himfelf,& all his Apoftles? Do they think that Chrift himfelf knewnot what it was to preachChrift? or that he let us a pattern too low for our imitation ? I defire them foberly to read Mat. 5.6, 7,Io,z5.Rom. 8.4.from the I.ver.to the 14. Rom. z.Heb.z.& 4. & 5 & to And then tell me whether we preach as Chrift Z and
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