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98

Goffe2

Kem

fsion.

5.

Scal.

follows him

;

Well,

fays

God,

this

poor

foul

notwithftanding

will

have

doubts

of

my grace

;

now

that it might

have

ftrong

confolation,

I

have fwore

that

I

might

make

my mercy

fure

to

fuch

a

foul,that's

a

fourth way

:

but

is

there any thing

elfe

?

you

ufe to make

things fure between

one

another

Yea

Lord,

Fourthly,

we

put

our

Seals

to

it,

an

Oath

taken may loon pats

over,

but

a

Seal

that

abides

:

fays

God,

I

will do that too,

I

will

give

you

Seals, and

there

are divers forts

of

Seals ;

there's

firft

the Broad

Seal

of Heaven

:

What

is

that

?

that

is

nothing elfe,

but the

very

Printing of

the

Image of

God

on

the Soul, that

is

the

Broad

Seal

of

Heaven. And

as

the

Broad

Seal

of

England,

hath the

Pic5ture

or Image

of

the

King ftampt

upon

it,

fo

the

Broad

Seal

of

Heaven

is

nothing

elfe

but

the Image

of God

1ampt or

imprinted

on

the

Soul.

z.

There

is

the

Privy

Seal

of

the Holy

Spirit

of

God,

which

is

the

perfwading

and afí'uring

of

the

foul

of

its

intereft

it

hath

in

Chrift

and

God

the Father.

In

7ám.2.

i9.

you

have

Gods Privy

Seal, The

Lord

knows

them

that

are

his,

and

they

having

his

Privy

Seal

know

themfelves

to

be the

Lords, Cant.

6.2.

i

am

my

Beloveds,

and

my

Beloved

is

mine

;

fo

Paul, Gal.

2.20.

being fealed

with

this Seal, faith

of

Chrift,He

loved

me,andgave

himfelf

for

me

;

he

was

perfwaded

and affured

of

falvation,

2

Tim.i.iz.

Rom.8.38,39, This

Pri-

vy

Sealing

is

like

the

New

Name

, Revel.

z.

17. Which

no

man

kZnoweth

fining

he

that

receiveth

it.And

to

this

you

fhall

have

a

third

Seal,Baptifm

and

theSupper

of

theLord,that is,to

affure

you,

that

the

end

of

the

Sacrament

is

to

Seal

up

Pardon

of

fin

;

God

law that

his People would

be

very

folicitous, and

therefore

ad-

ded

all

thefe wages

of

affurance

to them

;

when you

therefore

come to

the

Sacrament,

you Ihould

come

with

a fenfe

upon

your

fouls

of

the

great

need

you

have

of

the grace

of

God

in

pardon-

ing fin, and

come

to

it

as

to

a

Sealing

-day

;

you

have

many

fears

and

doubts

;

come

fo

as

that

you may have

the grace

of

pardon

feal

"d

to

your

fouls

;

take heed

of

coming

fo

as

to

have

your

con-

demnation

fealed

:

for

certainly,

all

Ordinances

if

they

work

not

for

that

end, that

they are appointed, they

turn

to another

and quite

contrary

;

as

the

Word,

if

it

be

not the favour

of

life,

it

is

the

favour

of

death

;

and

fo

the Sacraments, if they

feal

not

the

pardon

of

thy

fins

up unto thee, they

feat

up

the

fentence

of