A Box of precious Ointment Or they be Aired, they mulIneeds be void of all feats, and fil- led with all joy in believing ; but this is a real milfake, for glorious and ravifhing joy is a reparable accident from Af- furanceolor yet doth Affurance exclude all doubts and fears, but only fuch doubts.and fears as arifeth from infidelity and reigning hypocrify. nut, The Tenth Maxim or Confideration. -1-'Enthly, Confider we have no ground from Scripture to I O. I exped that God fbould either by a Voice from Hea- yen, or by fending an Angel from about his Throne, or by' any glorious apparitions or firong imprellions, or by any extraordinary way of Revelations, affare us that we do be- lieve, or that our Grace is true, or that our interefi in God and Chrift is certain, or that our pardon is fealed in Heaven, or that we are in a juflified Rate, and that we (hall be at laft undoubtedly Caved, 0 no ! But we are to ufe all thole bleffed helps and means that are appointed by God, and common to all Believers, for the obtaining of a particular Affurance that we are Believers, and that our flare is good, and that we have a fpecial propriety in Chrill, and in all the fundamen- tal good that comes by him. Mark, he that will receive no eflablichrnent, no comfort, no peace, no affurance, except it be adminiftred by the hand of an Angel, and witneffed to by fome Voice from. Heaven, &c, will certainly live and dye without eflablient, comfort, peace, or affurance. Vick Gregorii. Gregory tells us of Weligious Lady of the Ernpreffes Bed- .1.,itloiT a Larie 1 in S. adRorn. Chamber, whofe name was Gregoria, that being much trou- v.m bled about her Salvation, did write unto him, That At' Amid, never_ceafe importuning of him, till he had fent her word that be had received a Revelation from Heaven that her fins were pardoned and thatjhe was Paved. To whom he returned this .Anfwer, That it was a hard, and altogether a ufelefr matter which fhe re- quired ,of him ; _It was difficult for him to, obtain, as being onwor- - thy
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