4o8 netíoug ,lasts) God, or thy Repentance is pure godly for - row ? -Then the Oyl of Joy is upon every Grate, and the Cup of Confolations runneth over : Confcience becomes a banquetting.- houfe,and Affurance, as Latimer calls it, is the Sweet- meats. We have heard one W itnefs,but the Supream, who drops all the Suavities, and diaates all the comfortable words in confcience is the Holy Spirit : The Spirit it Pelf beareth witnefs with our f pirit,that we ave the children of God,faith the Apoftle,Rom.8.16.áv7a 7a vrvtivttá, not the Gifts or Graces, but the very Spirit it fèlf beareth witnefs; &that not only outwardly in theWord,but in wardlyin and with our fpirit; and its Teflimony is That we are the children of God : And the import of that Teflimony, of ver and above the title of Sonfhip, is, That our Faith,rvhich makes us his children,Gal.3.26, is true; and our Love and other Graces, which manifefl us filch, are fo alto. And what Teflimony is this? To call it dubious, or o- pinionative,or conjectural is blafphemy. Cor- nelius a.Lapide,as one under a necethty,confeffes this Teflimony certain in it felf; but as a Salvo to the Dotrine of doubting, adds, That it is not certain to Jo. But this is to forget the A- poflles words,. That the Spirit witnefrth it with our fpirit; and withal abfurdly to fay, That the Spirit indeed witneffeth,, but would not be believed ; or rather,That it wit - neffeth, and witneffeth not, becaufe an un- heard Teflimony is as none. Bellarmine faith, The Spirit witn oh not by an exprefs word, but by
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