17% Cautions to them that doc hunger. yea or no? Have I the righhreoufneffe of Chrift ? Do I feel the worker of the Holy Gholl carrying my foule to Chriff, and fo enabling me to reil upon his ;ighceoufnefs, and then is the Holy %hvl't a comforter unto me as a fruit of this, then it's good; If thy comfort comes as a fruir of the aeî of thy faith, calling thy felfe upon the righreouineife of Jefus Chrifl, other- wife thy comfort may be but to pleafe thee, and fatisfie thee a a while, and fo take thee off from further purfuire after this righteoufnefs That is the, only thing will hold , and make thee to Band with peace before the Judgement -Seale of God. A third Caution is this; In, feekingafter this righreoufneffe of Chrift take heed of réafoning with fleth and blood ; Take heed of carnali reafonings; and arguing how can this thing be, that fuch a one fo vild and fo wretched as I am,and fo ungodly as I have been, that ever God fhould have fuch love and fuch regard as to fend his Son to be made a curie, to dye, and to work out a perfect righteoufiiefs to cloath my foule with : I have heard of the glory of this righteoufnefs,` and how can it be that ever my foul should be partaker . of ir, this is to reafon with ídefh and blood ; thou mull in thy purfuite after this, have that reafoning of fleth and blood to be fwallowed up, and faith alone muff be advanced in it ; If faith be not put to this great point, there will never be any good done of it ; If reafon come in, reafon ,will fpoile all; for it's above all , reafon, it's infinitely fupernaturall Reafon (faith Luther) is a molt terrible enemy to faith, and it's a great raillery of Godli neffe that the Angels themfelves defire to pry into, and to wonder at,, and therefore Chtiflíans mull even (as it were ) Phut the eye of reafon, and exercife faith upon ir,' it's only that that can bring peace unto thy foule. Fourthly, And then the tall thing is, ô take heed above all of turning this grace of God into wantonneffe, looke to that; you have heard this sighteoufnefs of the Son of God opend and the glorious properties of it, the excellency of it, the de -: fireableraffe of it,it is tIrat that very few hearts can bear, they . cannot beare it, we find it by experience that men and women that
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