wow fin comes, God is reconciled, and all f ars and terrors from the Almighty are gone : (Bole fears whereby the fcul was afraid. God was fecretly working ruine to it, are difpelled ; and if any judgement of God comeciofe and near, and befall any in the fight and hearingof a guilty foul; he would be thinking God. is coming to nie next : But a juftified foul may fay, though the judgements ofGod be never fo terrible in the world, and in the`._ Word, which before terrified my Confcience : yet nowmy fin being pardoned, my foul is reconciled, and the Word of God. fpeaks nothingbut good unto me, and all thofe fears that before fo terrified me are difpelled. But may not a pardoned man have thefefears, or fomewhat of Ob]e5t the natureof therm refing on his fpirit after he is pardoned ? Yea, he may, but the ground of them is difpelled and gone ; Anfw., it is not the work of Gods Spirit that caufes thefe fears, as it did before, Rol-n.8.15 . You have not received the fpirit ofbon- dage again tofear,but the Spirit ofadoption,whereby ye cry Ab- baFather ; may be you may have forne fears, but being jufti- fied by faith, you have not again received the fpirit ofbondage if hereafter you have any fears of Gods judgements and wrath againft you ; it is not the fpirit of bondage, the Spirit of God that caufes thefe fears, your own felves may miftake the matter ; for thofe that once receive the fpirit of bondage, never after re- ceive it ; you may have fears through your ownmiftakes,but not by theSpirit of God, as the fpirit of bondage (hewing us our bondage by our fins, and working terrors on the foul for it,thefe fears are difpelled;for inour peace withGod in the pardon offin, thematter of enmity between God and the foul is taken away. ; there is this in it which might have been added in the myfte_ ries : When a Prince pardons a malefactor, he, gives him his. life, andhe is glad, goes away, but the Prince regards him not anymore ; and poffibly he may yet have enmity in his heart againft the Prince Rill : But God when he pardons a firmer, nor only is the enmity taken away , but forthwith that foul brought into the (fate of infinite friendfhip, he receives-the foul into his veryheart ; fo that there fhail be a greater and more intimate love and friendthip between hisMajefty and that Soul, than ever was between the greaten and deareft friends in the
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