confortablewalking withGod. 329 the Spirit ofAdoption. ,No man canfay that lirasa theLord, 1.cor°13 3. bat by the Holy ghoft. For the third, I doubt nor, but thebleffed Spirit, 2S a com- fortable Remembrancer, refrefhed Frezekias memory, when he cryed to the Lord, Remember now, 0 Lord, &c. Ifa. 38.3 But how fhall a man difcerne , and difference a true per- fwafion; and the teftimony of theSpirit ; from a groundleffe prefumptuous conceit, and the Devils deltifion ? IfBellarrnine aske me, I will eafily flophis mouth Firft, bydemandinghim, how his Saint a Francid,andSaint a De luftif ria. 3. Anthony,knew affuredly,that their revelations ofthecertaine ] seit' remifflonoftheir finnes, were from theSpirit ofGod; efpe- cially fith with him they were revelations quite befides and without the Word. For b hee holds, that this propofition, midsea41fina Francais truly juftified : e4ntony hathhis finnes forgiven ; ratio.] and fo of other particular men, is not to bee found in the Word , either immediately, or by evident confequence ; which wee upongood ground contradift , ifthe particular men be truebeleevers: Secondly , by that laying of Ambrofi ' urgedby c Catari- Hiflorie t MU in the Counfell of Trent : The Hoy Ghoji doth never comical of Trait. (cake unto as, but cloth make, us know, that it is Hee that Pig'. 2°6' iPtaketb., But if the doubtfull Chriftian truely troubled about it, would be taught and informed in the point ; or if it be pofil- ble that the Pharifee, the deluded One fhould heartily defire to'bee illightened ; I advife that they would confithr upon tilde following markes ofdifference. . A found perfwafion upon good ground by the Spirit, is ever agreeable and anfwerable exatily to the Word. The inward teftimonyof the Spirit., andoutward teftimonie of the Word, doe alwayes fweetly accord, and oneanfweres to the other , as face to face in water. And therefore, if that thy prefent {late, wherein thou conceiveft thy felfe to bee fare and fafe inough for falvation, bee dif- abled and condemned by Gods Word; thy confidence is vaine and Satan deludes thee. The Scripture tels us, Y4, That
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