comfortable walking with God. young devills ; (they (hall have theirperfe&ion inhell) boyle inwardly with much malicious blafphemous rage againft God,whom theyhave renounced; perfecutewith implacable fpite, the blefl'ed Gofpel and glorious wayes of Chrift, which theyhave fodefperately relc&ed ; and gnalh the teeth, like fomany alreadyhellilh Fiends, againft all thole happy Oses, whom they fee walkewith conftançie and comfort in that holy way, to innumerable joycs ; which they with cer- taine knowledgeoftheir hearts,and againft the cleere light of theirconfcience, have wretchedly abandoned for ever : and fo tnne againft the holy Ghoft. 5. The Papilla alloy as upon the unhleft'ed grounds of their Antichriftian do&rime, cannot poflibly build any true perfwafion of being in Gods favour; fo they are bound out by tenour of their heretical) Tenent, from thinking it lawful) to entertaine any unwavering certainety that way. 6. Nay further,fome out of a Pharifaicall pretence of hu- militieand modcfly ;but in truth, from the fecret fuggeflion of a guilty con fcience,whichminifters unto themmore than mat:erenough of true and juft doubting,are notable wrang- lers for Papifticall doubting. a31"x; Papirlies; Thusyou fee, Tome there are allo, who doe not afhure themfelves of future happineffe, either upon trueor falle grounds. Yet I amperfwaded thegreateft part of thofe who live within the found of the Gofpell, are ordinarily confi- dent without caufe, and fecureof their falvation; when asin truth and trial) they have no firer interefi or better claime to the kingdome of heaven, then the foolith Virgins, and the refi of that deluded ranke, which I mentioned a little be- fore. Let a Miniller of Tome great Congregatiòn, wherein there are very few Profeflors, which is no hardthing tofinde, i andwhere there s no profeffion, efpecially the Gofpell be- ing peaceably preached, there canordinarily be no power of Chriftianity; fhewes theremay be, indeed without fubftance; butnot thepower of godlinefie, without vilble appearance; as appeares in the Preparatives : Ifay, let himinterrogate,and V4 297
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