Ver.4. Self=condemnation confinent, Cgc. 5 3 RULE II. Self condemnation and abhorrency for fin conffient with Gofpel 3ujfification and Peace. The nature of Gofpel,Affurance what l,t conffftnt with it. What are the Efps of it. .Self - Condemnation and Abborrency do very well confifi with Self-con- el- u/tf cation and Peace. Some men have no peace, be- demnuiun Ge1p fi' catìfl; cause they have that, without which it is impo le theyAmid winth Gen[ o- hav: peace. Becaufe they cannot but condemn t emf:lves, they 'fpel Jufti- cinnot entertain a fence, that God doth acquit them. But this fìcation and is the myfier) of the Gofpel, which unbelief is a 1franger unto Peace. Nothing but faith can give a real fuhfilfence unto theCe things, in the tame Soul, at the fame time. It is eatie to learn the nation of it, but it is not eafie to experience the power of it. For a man tohave a fight of that within him, which would condemn him for which he is troubled, and at the fame time to have a difcovery of that without him,` which will j4ifte him, and to rejoyce therein, is that which he is not lead unto, but by Faith in the myjfery of the Gofpel. We are now under a aw for Juffification, which excludes all boating., Rom. 3 27. So th it though we have jay enough in 'another, yet we may have, we alwayes have fuftcient caufee, of humiliation in our felves. The Gofpel will teach a man to feel fin, and believe Righteoufnefs at the fame time. Faith will carry Heaven in one hand, and Hell in the other ; (hewing the one deferved, the other porch;fed. Aman may fee enough of his own fin and folly tobring Gehennam è Coe!o, a Hell ofwrath out ofHeaven ; and yet fee Chriff bring C!rsm ex inferno, a Heavenof blefled- nefs out of an'Heli of punifhment. And thefe muff needs pro- dace very divers, yea contrary cffects and operations in the Soul. And he 'who knows not how to align them their proper du- ties, and feafons, muff needs be perplexed. The workof fell: condemnation then," which men in there depths cannot but abound with, is in the difpofition of the Covenant of Grace, ntt way inconfiftent with, nor unfuited unto 7üjfïfication, and the enjoyment of Peace in the fence of it. There may be a deep fence of fin on other confiderations betides Heil. David 0 0 a Was e
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