hindreth not Pietyandagodly life. wine grace, Ifhall repent and trulybelievein the Bonne of God,andfo endmy life : But thefe being anions which Godbath put withinmine own power , I am relayed to perform them hereafter : `Therefore I'hall be Paved. It is the minor propofition which nourifheth a man in his prefentlewdneffe,and yet tnaketh him prefumeupon his futurehappineffe. And the minor conteining nothing in it but a promife of doing that good for a mans own felt which lieth (as he thinketh) in his own power to do, no man thus affeded will greatly fear tocontinue in finne, or (land in any czre4 fear of eternali damnation. But according to our dotrinc a man of com- mon fente will reafon thus, Ifledfafily believe that ifGod haveelened me he willfanthfie me withhis grace, and bring me untoglory : and if I be not fandified with grace 1 live here, I was never elened, I Pall never befa- ved : But mineown confcience tellethme, that asyet Iam unfanaifred, that 1 wallow in loofe_ nef feand lewdneffeoflife. , The true and naturall genius ofthefe pre - miffes truly apprehended is to rowfe a man out of /loth, and to qudll groundleffe pre- fumption of his future falvation, and (in a word) to make him conclude, Till 1 alter mycourfe of life, I mull not dream of any Ele- nion or Glorification. Now for the manner ofreafoning which e 3 this 439
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