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L'oa.
of
Sts
Per for. its
ufefulnefí"eto
promote
Co¡pell-0bedience.
C.X.4:
tg.
that
by
the
way
of
motive
to
this
duty, there,
is
nothing
comes with
that
effi-
237
cacy upon
the
foule,
as
the love
of
Chrift
in his
death,
as
the
Apoftle affures
us.
2 Cor.
5.
54.
for
the
Love
of
drift
confiraineth us,
becaufe
we
thus
judge,
that
if
one
died
for
all,
then
were
all dead;
and
that
he
died
for all,
that
they
which
live,fionld
not henceforth
live
unto themfelves,
but
unto hirá,which
died
for
them,
and
rofe
againt
:
now it
was never laid
to
the charge
of
this
Dolrine,
that it
took offfrom
the
vertue
of
the Death and Croffe
of
Chrift,
but rather
on
the
contrary, though
falfely,
that itafcribed too
much
thereunto;
fo
that
(
there
importune
exceptions
notwithflanding) the Do&rinein
hand
doth not
only
maintaine
its
own
innocency
,
as
to
any tendency
unto
loofenefle
,
but
alto
manifeftly
declareth
its
own
ufefulneffe
to
all
ends
and purpofes
of
Gofpell
Obedience whatfoever; For,
3.
It
{litres up,
provokes,
and
drawes out
into
a&ion ,
every
thing,
that
is ß,15q
free,
noble, ingenuous,
filiall,and
of
an
heavenly defcent
in
the
Saints
of
Gods
thus
:
I.
It
ftrengthens their Faith
in
God,
and
in
Jefus Chrift,which
is
the
hot-
tome
of
all
acceptable Obedience whatfoever;
All
that,
which
proceedeth
from
any
other Roote,
being
but
a
product
oflabouring
in
the
fire,
which
in
the
end
will
confume
both
Root
and
Branch.
That
which prevailes
upon,
and
drawes
out the
foule
to
Faith and believing,
I
meane ,
as
it
is
peculiar
to
the
Gofpell,and
jnfti
fying,
that
is, as
it
is
in
God
as
a
Father,
and
in
the Lord
Chrift
as
a
Mediator,
is
the
difcovery
of
the good ll-of God to the
foule in
Chaff,
and
his
defigne
to
advance
his
Glory thereblr
:1
fpeake
not
of
the
for
-
mall
caufe
of
Faith
in
general', but the
peculiar
motive
to
Faith
,
and
Belie-
ving
in
the
fence
beforementioned.
So
our
Saviour giving
the command in
general' to
his
Difciples
lob..14
I.
ye
believe
in
God believealfa
in
mee
,
in
the
whole enfuing
Chapter,
provokes them
to it,with
gratious
difcoveries
of
the
good
will
of
God;
his
Fathers ,
and
his
own
good
will
towards them
5
And
indeed, propofe what
other
confederations
ye will,
provoke the
foule
by all
the
feare
and dread
of
Hell, and
the
moft difinall reprefentation
of the wrath
to
come,
untillit
be convinced
of
this,
it
will
never take one fteppe towards
God
in Chriff;
Now
our Adverfaries
them"/
elves being
judges
,
the
Do&rinewe
have
had under
confederation,
abounds above
all
others with the
difcoveries
of
the
good will and kindneffe
of
God
to
pooredfinners; yea
the
great
crime,
that
is
laid
to the
charge
of
it,
is,
that
it extends it
too
farre
5
it
Both
not only
affert,that God
freely
beginne: the good
worle in them
,
but that
he
will
allo
powerfully
perfeel
it
to
the day
of
jefoe
Chrift ;
It
affures
the
foules
of
the
poore
Saints
ofGod, that
he,who
lookt
upon them in their
blond,
andfaid
un-
to them
Live,
when
no
eye
pittied
them;
who
gnickned them,
when they
were
dead
in
trefpaffes
andin
jinn:,
begettingthem
of
his
own
will
,
by
the word
of
Truth,
that
they
jhould
be a
hind
of
fir"
is
fruits
to
himfelfe,
wafbing them
in
the blond
of
his
Bonne,
and delivering them
from
the old
Tyrant
Satan
,
that
he
will
not
now leave them
to
themfelves
, and
to the
Counfell
of
their
own
hands, to
ftand
or
fall
according
as
they fhall
of
themfelves;
and
by themfelves,
be
a-
ble
to
withftand
oppofition
and
fedu&ion:
but
that
he
will
keep
them
in his
own
hand, giving them
fuck
confiant
fupplies
of
his
Grace
and Spirit;
as
that
in
the
ufe
óf
meaner,
they
(hall
waite upon
him
to the
end
t
And
that
how-
foever,
or whenfoever, by the power of
Temptation,
and furprifalls
of
cor-
ruptions, they
are carried
afide
from him, he will
beale
their
back-
flidings,and
receive them
freely,
and though they
change every
day, yet
he
changeth
not,and
therefore
they
arenot
confirmed.
And
hereby,'
fay,
it
confirmes
and ftrengthens
their
Faith in
God,
as
a
Father
in
Jefus Chrift ,
taking
everlafting care
of
them.
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