322 On the Excellency of the Saul. hopes, except +btt bee able to hold fortiv,fornti Scripture or other upon vdrich your build your h., -for when, you . fay you hope,,.you't1taÿ not mean the fnu think and a'e per- iWaded_ that it is fo, but what Scripture have, ybu for it ? you will fay, what Scriptures have any to ground their, hopes of falvation upon ? hxt Scriptures ? a,.gteat maw ; I will give yon but this one that malty have to ground their hopes upon, Rom; 8. i : 7 here,is therefore mole no condemnation to them which are in C fi je ftti, who trod tent after the f efh bast seffer the 'Spirit. Upon this: now faith, a ford that God . brings.. to himfelif ; What do:h God fay in his Word ( that... word ùponwlich my foul hands, and.mufl be caíi one day for; eternity ) that thofe that are in Chrift Deft s, , ihall ne- ver bee condemned? I but who are they? fuch as walk not after the flefh, bat, after the Spirit, fuch as the bent of whole hearts, and the indeavours of whole. fouls are not after fleibly things, the comforts of this worlds but after fpi- ritual things;fuch whom theLord bath made to be.fenftble of fpiritual things, and fuch as the Lord loth a& and guide by his holy Spirit intheir wales and converfations, God faith* . fuch thall never be, condemned; then upon this I will build my hopes,for I feel that the Lord bath been pleafed to work. co on mee,as to bring mee to,Jefus Chrifl,to fee him, to clofe with him , and to - relye upon him, and I feel the fruit of the Spirit of Chrift in meet that whereas before I walked after the flea), and fpiritual things I did not favour, now I finde that the tufts of the flesh are mortified, and I thould wrong the grace of God, if I fhould deny the aaings, and the guidings of the Spirit in my foul; and therefore I will build my hopes, and mil upon this Scripture. - -- And the more any foul refs upon any Scripture (if it refis truly ) the more (hall it finde the power of that Scripture upon u : Therefore you (hall know the difference between an hypo- crites rating upon Scripture, and one that rats through the work of Gods Grace; an Hypocrite refis upon fuch a Scrip- ture, and conceict that his heart is according to the Scrip- ture; but now hee Both not finder that the more bee refis, the
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