268 InftruC!ions for aright comforting Secb, Objection :~gainfi the former DoCtrine. for Chrift. And how requi!ite it is both for the glori. fying of GoD s jufl:ice and mercy.; and alfo for the .furtherance of our jufl:i fication, and fanelification. ror illufl:ration of which Point, be£idcs all that liath been: faid before, I have more willingly in this lafi: Paffage prefl: at large the authority of fo great a Di· vine, (in which, 1 hope, I have notfwarved from his fenfe) becaufe He is without exception both for holi~ ndfe and learning : and fo his !incere and orthodoxe judgment more current and paff1ble. CHaP. XI. Obje[/ion ax.ainft thfl former Do£lrine. Differences betwetne legal/ terrourlin the eleCl avd others. 06je/Jio.11. I Vt hence, · it may bee, fomc: troubled Soule may take up acomplaint,and fay: Alas, if it be thus, what !ball I thinke of my felfe? I doe not remember, that ever I tafied fo deepely offuch terrours, and legall troubles, as you feeme to re• quire : I have not beene fo humbled and terrified,nor 'had 1uch experience of that fiate under the [pirit qf bondage, as·you talke of, &c. And therefore you have caft fcruples into my confcience, about the truth and {oundneffe of my converfion. Anfwcc.totheobjccH. Unfw. I anfwer, in this worke of the JPirit of ~n. hondage; in this·Cafe of legall terrours, h~1miliations, . and other preparative difpofitions, we doe not p~e-.; fcribe precifely juO: fuch a meafure and quantiue: Wee doe not determine peremptorily upon fuch or fuch a degree, or height: Wee leawe that to the Wikdome of our great Mailer in Heaven, the,nery - - - Wife
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