;5 88 Of the Manner, performing fuck and fuch a Deed, or hating fuch and filch a Grace, which neceflárily ac- companies Salvation; of the Sincerity of which, if a Man doubt, as ordinarily he will, he can have no well grounded Certainty. (6.) Antinomians run to another Extream, who fay, That the Foundation of Comfort and Believing is without a Man altogether; and place in the Objective Teftirrmony of the Spirit revealing to the Man particularly, That God bath- eleaied him, ard, loved him. The Falfhood of which I Mall flow, God willing, when : come to fpeak of the Object of Faith. (7.) Thefe therefore who firft ffept from the Darknefs of Popery, do exprefs their Thoughts of this Matter otherwife, and fay, That the Gofpel not only gives Ground of ilope, but of Confidence, of f ll Perfzvaficn of the Remi f on of their Sins through the Blood of Chrif ; and that not after our clofing with Chrif!, but in our clofing with him So that the Foundation of a Man's Comfort and A9urance is wholly out of himfelf in the Promif s : Which therefore they fay, AMan ought particularly to apply to himfeJ. Andhow- ever this Doctrine, or filch Expreffions,by fome be judged very uncomfortable to fish as want fuch anAffurance; yet ingenuoufly I mut con- fefs they Teem to fpeak molt according to the Scriptures and Truth, of any other Method propofed, and as laying the more folid Grounds of Confolation to poor Sinners, to whom they give \Vagrant from the mere Pro- mifcs
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