comfortable walking with God. 325 IA hen it is ferious, fincere, andwithout hypocrisie and that may be manifeft and cleerely difcernable to the heart that bath it. Doeyou thinke, the ferioufüefe oftheNinivites re- pentance was not certaine unto them ? We have received the Spirit ofGod, faith Paul, that we might know the things that are freelygiven ud ofGod, which are notonely Iife everlafting, &ct but ju(Iification,fan&i6cation, and fuch like.I fay,favingneffe of repentance, as of faith, confills not in the meafure and muchneffe ; but in the finceritie and tnith, of which the true penitent maybecertaine, as well as ofhis forrow. But now lümchar AdriaPalud: Ala whereasthe Popi(hDo&ors being blinde guides, leade,their reguirye. nece,rarsly n, hoodwinkt followers into fuck perplexed mazes of uncer- rorontritisr;sum_ mum dolorem inn tainties,and indeed impoflibilitiesabout contrition,in refpe& tieufve &aradua- ofextenfion, intention, appreciation, equivalence to finne;no liter. Sentsu and ihle fal- marvel!though theypleade pertinacioufly for the point, and lower,, certainin- of tentionem fcli purgatory g 3. 13y the effe& Deo cognitam. s and fruits growing from the roots of Bell.& Valens.. grace in the heart. summum do o- remappreciativ I. . But theremay be in the hypocrite, an exa&outward con- whereby theft Le- formityand obedience. cull: put the con- fcience, of their . I anfwer, True it is,that for theoutfide andcarkaffe, as it blinded ones f ' were, theworkes ofunfan&ifiedmen, may be like to chore ofwakp5e;q`(e toe godly,but theyarewithout the foule,life and fpirit;which ofinevitableand is in the work ofa true beleever;towhich he isno left'sprivy tmplacab aher- ecu.,tor»xnung inhis heart,then to the outwardwork whichpaffeth thorow them, as witht e his hands.And wehold, that workes done in u ri tneffeof `seem: ` a Se.r- P p n, when hefits`= ,heart, onely, are theywhich truely teflifie in this cafe. (eth a gran. Let every true- heartedNatbaneel then comfortably con- dudepardonand peace unto his owne foule, from all fuck fruits foqualified. For inftance, in one. Wee know that wee have pad from death to life, beeaufe wee love the Brethren, i Ioh.3.14. I love the Brethren : therefore I am tranfla tedfrom death to life. But is itpoffible for a man to know that he loves his Bra- threnas heought, and as theApoftle requires ? Saint Johnmakes it a fgneofour being fotranflated; there- fore it maybe knowne. For lignes manifeftingother things, Y a mu(i
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