comfortable walkingwith God. 1,1111.7Ammo. 325 when it is ferious, fincere, and without hypocrifie ; and that may be manifeft and cleerely difcerneable to the heart that bath it. Doeyou thinke,the ferioufneffe of the Ninivites re- pentance was not certaine unto them ? iPe have received the Spirit ofGod,faithPanl,that we might know the things that are freelygiven us of God,whicharenot onely life everlafting,8ec; but juflificationfanetification,and fuch like. I fay,favingneffe of repentance, as of faith, cot-Allis not in the meafure and rnuchneffe ; but in the fincerity and truth, ofwhich the true penitent may be certaine, as well as of his forrow. But now Kichar.Palutf whereas the Popifh Doctors being blindguides, leade their Arelgavr,td,,,:y hood-winkt followers into fuch perplexed mazes of uncer- to coutrition; Sum, tainties, and indeed impoffibilities about contrition in refpeti MfTv:tr:rnacitti: of extenfion, intenfion ,appretiation,equivalence to finne ; no aliter marvel' though they pleadepertinacioufly for the point, and tw°77,ttlften: purgatory of doubting. teationern foci 3. By the effeds and fruits growing from the roote of Dco cognitam. Bell. dr vaket. grace inthe heart. Summum dote rem appreciativd. But theremay be in the hypocrite, an exaft outward cone Krivreby tbofeLa- formity and obedience. ma, put the confci. I anfwer : True it is, that for theoutfide and carkaffe,asit facer of their blix. dedOnes ,ifwakimg were,the workesofunfanetified men,may be like to thofe of4,6"edrwVo.NT thegodly,but theyare without the foule,life and fpirit;which table od implack. is in the workofa true beleever:to whichhe is no leffe privy tke.t"Te, to; inhis heart,then to theoutward workwhich paffeth thorow fbe tontewt his hands. And we hold,that workes done in uprightneffeof l'ffin 4 5:" kerPi°"' tb aow heart, onely, are they which truely teftifie in this cafe. Let every true hearted 21Zatbeinee/ then comfortably con- clude pardonand peace unto his owne foule, from all fuch fruits fo qualified. For inftance, in one. We know that we havepaffedfrom death to life k 44141i we love the Brethren,' loh.3.14.11cvo, theBrethren therefore I am tranflated from death to life. But is it poffible fora man to know' thvhe loves hi 'bre- thren as he ought, andasthe Apoftle tequive, Saint lob; makes it a figne of recur being lc It13 ed;then. fore it maybt knownes For fignesmanifart Y
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