.. Part I. Chap. 17~ ·AjflWeJ Con(Ciencn. -alteration in their wayes, Whofe New•obedience confifis onely in a fornall conformity to outward exercifes of Religi~m, w~thout all true Ze~le, li_fe, heartine{fe, holinefJe, or tndeed bonefi dealmg w1th their Brethren . But thefe men are to· know, that Chril1s blood never pardoned any mans Soule from finne, whofe fpirit the powtr thereof did ·not purge from guile. It never faves any one from Hell, wh~m it doth not f1rfl: in fome good mcafure feafon wtth holineffe and heavenly life. In vaine liioe they build . comfort upon his Pa/fron, who doe not confcionably ·oonforme to the prattife of his Wtrrd; And let them fi.1rrher bee informed for a more cleare difcovery of their grofle at~d damnable Sc:lfe-deceit; that howfoever a dead .faith, according to it's name and nature, enters (if.it hath any entirie at all) into the underfian- r F . h ~d d . . l k bl . r. r. d ,ntrue an conn c.r. mg, w1t 1out :my remar e-a e motton, 1C:1.he an alteration; yet that Faith, which truly juftifies, pacifies, purifies, mortifies, fanC\:ifies,and faves,is evidently difcernable, by, firfl, Man~ fl:irring Preparatives; 1 • The Prcp~r-atiycs ; · Sight and fcnfe of a Mans mderable fl:ate by nature, · Qfhis .finfulndfe and curfednefiC; Humb/ing ·himfeife in the fight of the Lord, fearefull apprehenfions wrought :hy·the fPirit of /Jond~tge · ; Illumination, conviction,Legall terrours.&c. Secondly,Violent alkd:i- ~.Violent affections. ons about the infuling of it, which are wont to bee raifed :in the humbled heart by the Holy GhoO:; extreme tbirfl:, inflamed defires, vehement longings, unutter-able groanings of fpit it, prizing and preferring the Perfon and Paffion of Chrift, before the Pofieffion of. infinite \1\{orlds; w.illingnefte to foO all, to part With any thtng for Him, tho never fo deare~ or fo much doted upon heretofore ; with pleafur.e, riches, prefer~e!1ts, a rig_bt ha!'d, .a right· e_}~, li~erty' life, &c• . Nay, ·If Jn fuch a Cafe, tf even ·Hellxt ·felfe lbuuld O:and betweene. l~fus Chrifi and a poore Soule, H~ wuuld :moO: wlllingly pafiC thorow the very flame_s X -4 thereof
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