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V
ER.
7.
Ephefians,Chap.t.
why
doth
he on his
faith and repentance, receive onely
forgivenetfeof
the
eternall punifhment
e
Is it
that
Chrift
his death
is
not
as fufficient as
before
e
are
there not
fufficient
meanes
!
will
not
the
faine
qualifi-
cation
in
faith and repentance ferve,
that
did
before! They
fay,the
firft
is
all-fufficient
in
it felfe ;
They
fay, the Sacrament
of
their
penance
is
perfeél
;
they
fay,
if
a man
have fuch confeffion,fatisfattion,
contrition,
as
doe not put any impediment to
the
Sacrament, then it fufficeth:
Then
fay
I,
every man
who
receiveth pardon
ofthe
eternal! punifhment,
by the
Sacrament,
muff receive
pardon
of
the temporali
alfo;
for
the Sacrament
fufficeth
to give
both
;
if
he
come with
fuch
contrition
and
qualification
as
Both
not
put impediment, he receiveth
the whole
benefit
;
if
he come not with fuch,
he
receiveth no grace
by
meanes
of
it, no
remiffion
of
the
eternal!.
Now
followeth thethird
thing;
to which
I
anfwer:
We
doebeleeve
3
remiffion
of
finnes, becaufe
thpugh we have it,
in
regard
of
Gods
fentence, and
fede
fome
effeéls
of
it,
as
peace,
joy,
&c. yet
we
fee
it
not
fully
executed, nor
(hall
not,
till
the
time ofrefrefhing.
Now
then, how
fhould this
comfort
our hearts, that
God bath
dealt
y¡
r;
thus richly
with
us
!
Feare
not thou
repenting beleeving foule, feare
not
finnes
pall, prefent,
to
come,
thy God
hath put
all
from
his
fight,
and
fo,
that he
keepeth
no
backe reckonings
for
thee
; all
the blame,
all
that
is
a
proper
plague
or
punifhment
for
finnes
removed from
thee; What
would come to
us
under
còndemnation, more pleafant
then this word
of
pardon!
What
can
we beleeversreceive more
gladly,
then this generali acquitance
of
all
our
finnes
e
This
mull
make
us
feare
the Lord
;
There
is
mercy with
God,
that
17e
2.
he
may
be
feared, mercy reaching
to
forgiveneffe
the word fignifieth.
For
a
Traitour once pardoned
in
treafon, to be found
a
fecond time
in
confpiracie,
how
unthankful!,
how
intolerable
e
So it
is
with
us,
&c.
Seeing we get this rem
iffion
in
Chrift
his
blond,
let
us
lay it up and
Y
¡e
3;
keepe it
carefully.
We
keepe
all
things which
teftifie
our difcharge from
debts; Let
us
lay up
this by faith
in
our hearts,evea this pardon
in
Chrift
his
blood, which our God
giveth
us
:
It
is a
bleffed
thing to
exercilè
faith
in
the promife
and
feales
which we
have received. Many
meafuring themfelves
in
Gods
favour
by
feelings, when thefe faite,
call all
in
queftion
;
Many feeking
comfort
no further then
the fmart
of
terrours drive
them,
and then giving
over, at length are
diflreffed
with
their old feares and doubtings
;
for wounds over-haflily
skinned,
will
breake
forth
afrefh
; But
now
a
few, never
exerciliing
their
fenfes
in
apprehending this benefit, and fo
in
carefull laying
it
up, they
caufe
Cod
to hide
that comfortable
experience
of
it,
to the
end they may
feeke
it
up
and keepe
ir,
receiving
it
more carefully
;
as
if
one looke
loofely
to Plate, we
will lay
a piece afide
for
a
while,
and make one
thinke
his
negligence
bath
loft
it,that thus
we may teach him
to
keepe
it
more carefully when
it is
returned.
Let
us
maintaine our fpirituall liberty,
in
which.Chrift bath
fet us,
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