comfortable walking withGod. 297 youngdive's; (they (hall have their perfection in hell) boyle inwardly with much malicious' blafphemous rage againft God, whom they have renounced;perfecute with implacable fpite , the bleffed Gofpell and glorious wayes 'of Chrifi, which they have fo defperately rejected; and gnafh the teeth , like fo many already hellifh Fiends , againft all thofe happy Ones, whom they fee walke with conftancy and com- fort in that holyway,to innumerable joyes;which they with certaine knowledge of their Mart , and againft the cleere light of their confcience, have wretchedly abandoned for e- ver And fo finne againft the holy Ghoji. g. The Papifts alfo , as upon the unbleffed grounds of their Antichriffiandoarine , cannot poffibly build any true perfwafion of being in Gods favour ; fo they are bound out by the tenour of their heretical) Tenent, from thinking it lawfull to entertains any unwavering certainetie that way. 6. Nay further, fomeout of a Pharifaicall pretenceof hu- rnilitieand modefty ; but in truth, from thefecret fuggeflion ofa guiltie confcience, whichminifters unto them more then matter enough of true and juft doubting, are notable wrang- lers for Papifticall doubting. ono Papiftica. Thus you fee , fome there are alto who doenot affure themfelves of future happineffe, either upon true or falfe grounds. Yet I am perfwaded,the greateft part ofthofe who live within the found of the Gofpell, are ordinarily confident without caufe,and fecureof their falvation ; when as in truth and triall they have no' furer intereft or better claime to the Kingdome of Heaven , then the foolith Virgins and the ref of that deluded ranke , which I mentioned;little be- fore. Let a Minifter of fomegreat Congregation, wherein thereare very few Profeffors,whichis nohard thing to finder and where there is no profeffion , efpecially theGofpell-be- ingpeaceably preached , there can ordinarily be nopower of Chriftianity; fhewes there maybe,indeedwithout fubflance; but not thepower of godlinefi'e, without vifible appearance, asappeares in the Freparatives : I fay,let him interrogate, an l.7 w aske
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