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fsion.

fhall never

enter

into condemnation

:

Doft

thou

fay

fo,

and

yet

keeptii

not

Gods

Commandments

?

Haft

not thou the Conièi-

ence, and the

rather

upon the knowledge

of

this, to

keep

Gods

Commandments

?

the

Holy

Ghoft

fayes,

Thou

art

a

lyar,

and

there

is

no

truth

in

thee

;

and

thou wert

never acquainted with

this

myfterie

of

godlinefs.

When

it

is

underftooi

in

a

natural

way,

men may

abufe

it

;

you may know what

I

mean by

a

natu-

ral way,

and

God

knows you have need

of

Information

;

by

a

natural

way

I

mean by the

light

of Natural

Reafon ,

and

all

other

helps

of

learning

on

this

fide

the

work

cf

the

Holy Ghoft

but

when

men

underftand

it by

a

powerful

work

of

the

Holy

Ghoft,

they that

know

it

thus,

this knowledge will make them

more

careful and confcionable

to

keep

Gods

Commandments

;

and

if

any

man fay

he knows it

thus,

and does

not

keep

Gods

Commandments,

he

is

a

lyar,

and

the

truth

is

not

in

him.

Further,

If

a man

fhould reafon

thus

.

Well, if

there

be

fuch

a

myfterie

in

pardon

of

fin, and

that

God

when he pardons

fin at

ñrft,

layes

in

a

pardon

for

all

fin

afterward

,

this

will

make

Way

for

more

fin

:

Take

notice

here,

of

the infinite perverfenefs

of

the

heart

of

man

fuppofe it

were

not

thus,

but

the

contrary

were

true,

that

God

indeed pardoned the

fins

of

a

believer

coming

to

him

;

but

if

ever

he

fin

after pardon,

let

him look

to

it,

he (hall

then

be

under the fentence

of

death and condemnation

upon this

a

mans

heart

would

not

be

more ingaged to

feek

af-

ter

Chrift,

but would

reafon

thus

;

Well,

I

may

labour and

take pains, and

fuffer

much to get

a

comfortable

aflurance

of

the

pardon

of

fin

;

but

what

of

all

this, the next

day,

the next

hour

I

may

fin

again,

and

be in

the

fame

cafe

I

was

before, fo

that which way foever

things

go,

men will

reafon againft

God

for their

tufts

;

I

fhall put

it

to

you, or

to

any

heart that

may

be

fuppofed

to

have

attended on

God

,

yea,

and

bath received

grace

;

Which of

thefe

Dothrines

ingage

the heart molt for

God

?

either

this

Doctrine, or

the

other

;

whether that

you

be-

lieving

that

God

will

pardon

fin

;

yet

if

you

fall

into

any

new

fin,

you are

under

a

fentence

of

condemnation

;

or

thus,

that

God

is

fo

gracious, that

he

not only pardons

fin

for prefent,

but

for your

incouragement hé

fo

pardons

it,

that though you

through

infirmity

fall

again into

fin

,

he

will

not

cut

off

his

kind-