Fleming - BT60 F54 C66 1743

if RELIGION. ' 11 the furtheft .Light . and Atlurance of Mind, atnidft the great Trials of fuch a: Time~ I I IX. THA·T 'tis this \\rayalfo·the v:r orld is rendered inexcufable for their Mifbe– lief of the Gofpel., when unde~r fuch Suf– ficiency ·ofMeans gi ;en for this End, by , fo great a Difcovery of the.coi1finning· Evidences of its Truth, fo as they can. , have no Pretence he~ein, but an Obfti- / . .. nacy and.Re!olution not to be ~on vi need; on ·which Ground cloth our bleffed Lo R o teftify, tha·t it \vas no Want ofLight, -up– on the Certainty lof his Truth_, why Men . did .not receive it, 'but ·that they loved. Darknefsbetter than Ljght, becaufe their Deeds were evil; and when fuch clear, rational, and .convincing Evide~ces are laid open to their View, how moft Men . poffibly can get thefe put by or rejetl:ed·, is not eafy to comprehend, but that a . real Irrit6Jtion and torment of Spirit, fron1 fuch Clearnefs of Evidence, cloth· thus more tend to harden than convince. / / PosiT. IV. 'I HA er there .Is a conti– nued Necej[ttv of fuch a Confinnation ih - the Faith, to ~his Day, whatever can be, objefted of fo lo1!g a Conftnt and Pre- . _ " _ fcriptirJn

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