234 Of the Subjet being convinced of the Neceffity of ir, ye are constrained fo to do, not through Love, but Fear, and your Heart is after, and u- nited to the Law : And therefore not dead to it; and fo cannot be married to Chrifi. And hence, that godly Man Mr. William Guthrie faid, Faith 7.1.a a being pleafed with the Go- fpel-Device offaving Sinners; and Dr. Owen on Juaification,calls ir, An Approbationof the Way and Ordinance of God, for faving Sinners. 7th/y, The proud, quarrelling, -murmuring Sinner, for as that great Man, Mr. Shep- herd faith in his Sound Believer, After that a Sinner is convinced of Sin and Milery, he ordi- narily labours to heal himlelf,and to eafe his Con- jcience with his Duties and PerfOrmances. This not proving effe6tual after much Pains and Diligence, and feeking Help foal Chrifl and finding none, then ordinarily, faith lie, (if Grace prevent not) the Heart begins to con-' ceive hardly of God, as rigid and fevere ; and hence quarrels and murmurs at the Lord's Ways. Thus having forfaken,,all its Sins, and fought by all Means to pleafe the Lord, and being likewife, as himfelf fuppofes, fit- ted for Chria, and yet denyed all Mercy, and poflibly never to be received into Fa- volir : Hence,-through fuch Thoughts, it fecretly finks under its Loads, and murmurs with: ,the Lord, as unjuff, hard, and cruel, id claims the Inheritance of Debt, and not of
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