Fleming - BT60 F54 C66 1743

y Jtate of a C -HRISTIAN. · 69 ftill be refolved on t~1e Tefiitnony of God, made clear and evident · to then1 · to be fuch. . · 3· It is fure alfo, the Lord hath not given . fo large a Meafure . of thefe Grounds and De1nonftrations of his Truth, with fuch redoubled .. A.rgtnn~nts / · · of thaf Kind; to be of fo ftnall Re- . ~ gard ·as is with · n1oft. But for fotne · .- -··. .; great and univerfal Ufe hereof to the . whole J Church, ahcl knew how needful filch . Afliftances to the Faith of his People would be whilft they are on the Earth. · . . 4· That thefe Meal1s, which tend . ~ rnoft convincii1gly to found .a rationaJ .Aifurance in the Jndgn1ent, are the proper Vehicle o-fthe Spirit of God, by which his fealipg Work fhould be ' ~oth fought and expeeled; nor . ~an I judge how the Credjt and Ufe hereof fhould be fo fina11, and not on the fatne Ground quit any · external Ordinance of the Gof-p.el ; \;v hieh without the Spi.. rif of the Lord can never profit, nor ho\v we fhould exnect and fuit his . L confirtning "W:ork on the SouJ, whet). thefe g_reatefr confirtning Means, ·wliich G 2 - . _Le

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