comfortable walking with God. 3 23 1Mm.10...%...e....s.,1111a=11101.1.1 V in formeof an a experimental( Syllogifme, thus : g 0.11i fide rum Whofoever beleeves and repents, is the Child of God : corde hie rat But I beleeve and repent, therefore Iam the Child of God. The major o firft propofition, iscleareand evidentin the i"Eepo r ad co- very letter, and by the immediate fenfe of Scripture. See Pink' cal" 3`14 lobs 3.36 . Affsio.45.& 13. 39, &C. But how doe you know theminor, or second propofition tobe certainely fo ? By the certainty of internal! vifion, wherebywe as dem- ly fee our faith, as our hfi, will, thought, knowledge, &c, as appeares in the forecited place of Auflin. In his opini- on, I fay, Faith is as vifible to the internal( eye of a fanaifi- ed mincle, as is a mans life and will : Nay, and we are woont to difcerne with a more eager eye and obfervation a Stran- ger, then an ordinaryDomeflicke. Our life and will are in- bred, faith is adventitious. By the teflimony of a renewed confcience, which is as a thoufand witneffes. Now had I a c?nrgeT1,4,57; thoufand honeft witneffes at the Barre before an upright ferlfres. Judge, to proove my caufe, and juflifie myright againft the c:effficcttilk vea out-facings and perjuries of a Knight of the Poaft , as they rum Tribunal.K6 fay, well knowne to bee an infamous fligmaticall forgerer '" and murtherer ; I would little doubt but to get the day. It is proportionably fo in this prefent point ; I meane, be- tweene my regenerate illighmed confcience and Satan. Nay, in this cafe,lhould all the Devils in Hell fweare the contrary, did carnall reafon, naturall diaruft, or any other advefary power, cavil and contraditi withnever fuch irkefome tedi- oufneffe ; yet by the mercy of God, I will not withftand that heavenly light ftanding in myconfcience like an armed man : /will never takeaway mine innocency frommyfey' e, until I dye. But howdoe youknowthat you trulybeleeve ? Wemay know, perhaps, that we have fome kind of faith, but nor that we have the true lively faith, which will ferve the tame for falvation. I anfwer : Saint Paul bids us try, and proove our laves whether we have that Faith)by whichChrift dwelleth inour - heArts z
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