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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

hearing

of

a

guilty foul;

he

would

be

thinking God.

is

coming

to

nie

next

:

But

a

juftified foul

may fay, though the

judgements

of

God

be

never

fo

terrible

in

the

world,

and

in

the`._

Word,

which

before

terrified

my Confcience

:

yet

now

my

fin

being

pardoned, my

foul

is

reconciled,

and

the

Word

of

God.

fpeaks

nothing

but

good unto me,

and

all

thofe fears

that

before

fo

terrified

me

are difpelled.

But

may not

a pardoned

man

have

thefe

fears,

or

fomewhat

of

Ob]e5t

the

nature

of

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

of

bon-

dage

again

to

fear,but

the

Spirit

of

adoption,whereby ye

cry

Ab-

ba

Father

;

may

be

you may

have forne

fears,

but being

jufti-

fied

by

faith, you

have

not again received

the fpirit

of

bondage

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

own

miftakes,but

not

by

the

Spirit

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

in

our

peace

with

God

in

the pardon

of

fin,

the

matter

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,

and

he

is

glad,

goes

away, but

the Prince regards

him not

any

more

;

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 very

heart

;

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