t0 drowfie SAINTS. this only is life and peace : fo that wee cannot plea d that. Again, Wee cannot bee juftified without the Spirit of God, Yee may fay , O, wee hope to bee juftified only by Faith in Chrift ,' True, but if yee have not the Spirit of God, yee have no faith, none have true faith in Chrift, till firft they have the holy Spirit of God , and therefore it is called the fpirit of Faith, that is,a f pirit inclining a man un- to Chrift ; bowing of the minde, and heart, and foule, to all heavenly things in Chrift , no man can be juftified without this, as Paul tells the Corinthians, But yee are fanEtifted, yee are jufi:fied in the Name of the Lord,7efus,and by the Spirit of God, i Cor.6.I I. Againe, Yee cannot have free -will to do the will of God without the holy Spirit of God. I confeife, by nature no man bath free -will : I, but if yee bee not more than nature, yee cannot be faved. Yee mutt have free -will to all the wayes of God, or yee cannot bee faved. Now yee never can have this without the Spirit of God. Can yee mortifie, every wicked luft t can ye refìft the Devill every day ? can yee keep out the world,and ward off the temptations of the flefh ? yee can never doe it while the world [lands in a holy courfe, without the holy Spirit of God. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, 2 Cor. 3.17. Mark, there is free- will to all there things : that man bath liberty to doe fuper- naturall things, that bath the Spirit of the Lord, and no man elfe. Again, Yee arenone of Chrilts, if yee have not the holy Spirit of Chrift ; that is the Mark hee brands all his (beep with, as a man (ayes, when hee hears tidings of any of his (beep; faith bee, if they be mine, they have filch a mark : they have an A. and a B. or the left fide , or fo : fo fayes Chrift, if they be mine, they have my Spirit , if any man have not the Spirit of Chrift, he is none of his, Rom. 8. 9. Hereby we know that he abideth in ue,faith John,by his Spi- rit which he hath given ut, I Ph .3. 24. fo that wee have need of the fpirit , and theretore this cannot bee our plea, M that $I ....
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