314 VE!lS.zi. .AnE~po.fitiiN,"J:7ithNotu CHA.?.z· -- . fecurity of perfwa.fion, but in thegroundof it, Mat.7. latter end: ~he two bui~dings there m.ig~t be raifed i~ equal height at'ld com– lmefs, the. dtffcrence was m the foundauon. An Hy\JoCrite may have as fatr and as full a confidence as aBeleever, bot 'cis not as well built and nifc>d; and, ifthe Scripture lhallgive femence, He is not moft happy thP~t hath leaft trouble, but he that hath le~ft caufe; therefore you had need look to your faith. and ctJnfidence, that it may be jufiified, jufiified by your works; this is a fenfible evidence,and mofi in fight. I confers, by feme 'cis decryed as liti– giovu,by others as legal: Some think 1 that becaufe there are foma– ny lllifcs, and circuits, and wiles, in the heart ofman, it-is an uncer– tain,if not an impojfible wayof tryal. I confefs,if in tryal we were only togo by the light ofour confcicnce and rMfon, the ObjeClioFJ" * Prov, :~.o.z7 • wonld feem tohave weight in_it :· Who can dtfcover the*foldinr·s fjf the belly without Gods on;n candle ? The main certaimy 'lie~h in the Sp;'rits witnefs,wirhout which the witnefs ot water is filenr, 1 'joh.5 .8. Graces lhine not without .this light: Gods own In– terpreter mufi (hew a man his righteoufnr{s, Job 33· ocherwife there will be many lhifrs in the heart, and we flull fl:dl be in the' . ~ Deur. 17, 6. dark. Under the Law* every thing was to be efiablifhed in the m·?ltth of-two or three Witnejfes: fo here are two·\NitnelTes, the Spirit with our fpirits, the Spirit with our renewed confciet'lces, Rom.8.16. Tis nhe Holy Ghofi that giveth hghr, whereby we may difcem the.mnnofgra'Ce, imprinteth the feeling and. c0mfDrt , and by fatisfy-ing the Soul begetteth a fereni-ty and c:-tlmnefs- within us : ,Therefore the Apo£He piccbeth the main certainty upon the ' Spirits evidence; Rflm. 9· 2. I lye not, m} con{cience b-(t-1.ring me' , "ll';tnefs in the-Holy Gb()ft; that is, my confcie-nce is aifuredby the Holy Gholt that I do not err or lye. Oche:s cry it up ~or legV~ !, as byprdling men to look to works as an·evtden<:e: We went ~bout to efl:-ablifh their confidence in their own r.tghteoufnefs, or a merit in themfelves: Certainly 'ds one chirig to jru:lgby our grace!~, another thing to n/f or put our traft in th~m : Th12re is~ a great deal of differ!Cnce betwetn declaring and' dtfi'rv ing; \iVorks as fruits·may declare- our jufhfyed efiare: 11ht.re i§ a difference be– rweep peace with G:Od, and pr11ce ofconfcic:nce ; peace and an'lity with God we have mecrly by gr!lcd and free Jufiifita·tion, 'that ~,f,;v,, ?f'<eJ f .s-~o v, Rom. 5'. I. but in the Court of Con[cience there :lllLlfi.b~ fame evidence aod· manifeHatio11. A br0ken man harh peace
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