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CAP.X.g:
t4.
2
3
6
(hall not have
dominion over
sse,
becaufe we
are not under the Law,but under
Grace;
It
tells
you alto,
that
there
is
a
twofold
.feare
of
Hell, and punifhment
of
finne.
Firft,Of
Anxietie,and doubtfullneffe,in
refpe&
of
the
end.
Secondly,
OfCare
and
diligence
,
that
refpeð
the
meanes.
And for
the
firif
it faith,
that
this
is
the portion
of
very many
of
the
Saints
of
God,
of
fome all
their
dayes,
though
they
are fo, yet they know not
that
they
are fo; and therefore are under
anxious
and doubtful!
feares
of
Hell, and
Punifhment, notwithfranding
that
they are
in
the
armes
of
their
Father, from
whence indeed they
Ihall
not be
cart downer
as a
man
bound with
chaînes
on
the
toppe
of
a
tower, he
cannot
but
feare,
?and
yet
he
cannot fall;
He
cannot
fall,becaufe he is
fart
bound with ftrong
ch
tines:
He
cannot
but
feare,becaufe
he
cannot
a&ually,
and
cleárely
confider, often
times
, the
meanes
of
his
pre-
fervation.
And for
the latter,
a
feáre
of
the
wayes
and
meanes
leading
to
punifh-
ment,
as
fuch,
that
continuesupon all the
Saints
of
God
in
this
life:
neither
is
there
any
thing
in
this Doctrine,
that
is
fuited
to
a
removal! thereof.
And
this, it
faies,is
more, much more
ofufe
for the mortification
ofthe
flefh,
then
the
former.
Q.
It
fayes,
that
the great
and
Principali
meanes,
of
mortification
of
the
flefh,
is
not
feare
of
Hell and Punifhment,
but the
Spirit
of
Chrift,
as
the
Apo-
He
tells
us. Rom.8. 13.
if
ye through
the
Spirit
do
mortif
e
the
deeds
of
the
Alb,
yee
fballlive.
It
is the
Spirit
of
Chrift alone,
that
is
able to do
this
great
Worker
We
know, what bondage
and Religious drudgery form have
put
themfelves
unto, upon
this
account,and yet could never
in
their
lives
attatne
to
the
mortification
of
anyone
finne.
It
is
the
Spirit of
Chrift alone,
that
hath
foveraigne power
in
our
foules,
of
killing and making alive;
As
no man
quickneth
his
owne foule,fo no
man upon any
Confideration whatfoever,or
by the power
of
any threatnings oftheLaw,can kill
his own
finne;Thcre
was
never any
one
finne
truly
mortified by the Law, or
the threatningof
it;,
All
that
the Law
can
do,ofit
felfe,is
but to
intangle finne,and thereby
to
irritate,
& provoke
it,
like
a Bull
in
a
net,
or
a
beaft lead
to the
flaughter. It
is
the
Spirit
of
Chriftin
the
Gofpell,
that
cuts its
throate
& deftroyes
it;
Now
this
Do&rine
was
never
in
the
leaft
charged with denying
the
Spirit
of
God to
Believers,which whilft
it doth grant
&
maintaine,
in a
way
of
oppofition
to
that
late
Opinion,which advanceth it
felfe
againft
it, it maintainesthe mor-
tification
of
the
flefh,and
the
lufts
thereof, upon the only
true,
and
unfha-
ken
foundations.
3.
It
tells
you,
that
the
great
meanes, whereby
the
Spirit
of
Chrift work-
eth the
mortification
of
the
flefh,
and
the
Lulls thereof;
is
the
Application
of
the
Croffe
of
Chrift, and his
Death
,
and Love
therein, unto the foule;
and
faies,
that
thofe vaine endeavours,
which fome
promote
and encourage,
for
the
mortification
of
finne
conffting for the moltpart,
in flavifh,
bodily ex-
ercifes,
are
to
bebewayledwith
teares
of
blond,
as
abominations,
that
(educe
poore
foules
from the
Croffe
ofChrift;
For;
it
faies,this
work istruly,and
in
an
acceptable manner
only
performed, when
we
are
planted
into the
likeneffe
of
the death ofChrifl, having
our oldman crucified
with
him,
and
the
body
offinne
deflroyed.
Rom.
6.5,6. and thereupon by Faith
reckoning our
felves dead
unto
finne,
but alive unto
God.
v.
i
i.
It
is
done only by
knowing
the
fellowfhip
of
the
faferingsofChrifi,
and
beingmade conformable
to his
death.
Phil. 3,1o.
by
the
Croffe
o
f
chrif
is
the
world
crucified unto us
,
and
we
unto
the
world.
The
Spirit
brings home
the
power
of
the
Croffe
of Chri(t to
the
foule
,
for the
accom-
plifhing
of
this work; and without it , it
will
not be done: Moreover it
faies,
that
Mortification
of
the
flefh,
by
what
means
effe6ted,