392 netIouo fifts with Affurance ; for we may rejoice with trembling, as the Pfalmift hath it, Pfal. 2. I I. Nay, it is advanced thereby ; For it fears the Lord and his Goodnef . The heart of man is de- ceitful, even the Believer's, fo far as it is lea- vened with the reliques of Sin ; but as it is renewed with Principles of Grace it is a true heart, as theApoftle calls it, Heb. io. 22. and fo may pafs a true judgment on'its own efiat.e : Though it cannot know all that is in its own abyfr, yet it may know the general frame and byas of it felf;and thereby difcover its Sin- cerity. Hence the Apoftle faith, 1f our hearts condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God, r iohn 3. 21. if natural Confcience be a thoufand witnefs, inlightned is ten thoufand. Faith ( fay the R, manifls ) leans on the Word ; and there is no Word That fuch or fuch an one bath! true Faith and Repentance, or that his fins are pardoned and remitted : Unto which I anfwer, As to that, That no Word faith, that fuch an one hath true Faith and Repentance ; it is to be confidered, That when one Propofition Rands upon the Word, and another upon natural light or experience; The Conclufion is de Fide.When in the 6. Ge- neral Council the Fathers proceeded again( the 1Vlonothelites by this Argument : . Whofoever is true God and true Man bath two Wills : But Chrifi is true God and true Man ; Ergo he bath two Wills. The Major flood on the Light of Nature, and the Minor only on the Word ; yet the Conclufion was de Fide. And
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