426 necíouz faite. mife of Pardon and Salvation is nigh thee, O Believer, in thy mouth and in thy heart, con. feffing and believing on the Lord Jefus thou /halt be Paved : Thou in particular, thy Soul (hall dwell at eafe, thv Confcience (hall enter into Tell in the Covenant of Grace ; To doubt of it, is to deny the RefurreElion and Afcenfion of Chrift : He therefore who would have Af- furance muff give Grace and Chrift their due. One would think that the Papiffs, who hold , That they may by perfeft Obedience reach the apex of the Law, and go beyond it in works of Supererogaton, and climb Hea- ven it felf by their own Merits, might arrive at Affurance much rather than Proteftants, who inftead of exceeding the Law confefs themfelves much (port of it ; and inftead of meriting Heaven acknowledg all their Righte- oufneffes to be but a filthy rag : But it is far o- therwife, the Papifts generally do not fo much as dotrinally hold it, fave here and there a man among them; fuch as Ananias Marina - rius, who in the Council of Trent affWerted it ; concluding his Speech thus ; Si Ccelum runt, fi Terra evanef at, fi orbit illabatur prxceps, ego in Deum ereeins ero ; Much-like the Prophet Hibakkuk, who in an univerfal languifhment of nature would yet rejoice in the Lord the God of his Salvation : much lets do they prad ically arrive at it. Bellarmine himfelf after his fair life, died not like a Bolton or a Rivet not knowing whether he had a true Virtue in him or no, but kerning afraid of the Judgment: - Seat
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