pgCínuo fait!). Seat : Think not that thy Confcience (hall be appealed, unlefs by that Blood of Atonement which appeared God himfelf; or that thy heart may be fatisfied in a Righteoufnefs lefs than that perfea one which fatisfied Gods: Confcience is his Deputy, and cannot go off at lower terms than he himlelf doth : Fix thy heart on Chrift and Grace, lay the whole firers of thy Soul and Salvation there; Lean on thy Beloved, appropriate his Merits and Righte- oufnefs to thy felf Thus Luther tells the me- nacing Law, 0 Lex ! Immergo Confcientiam mean in Vulnera Sanguinem Mortem , Re- fisrreúionem & ViEloriam Chriffi,' pr,eter hunc nihil plane videre & audire volo ; O Law ! I drown my Confcience in the IVoundr, Blood, Death, Refurrec` lion and Viclory of Chrifl ; befides bim will I fee and bear nothing; This is the true way of Peace. Jahannes a Berg a zealous Papift in his life , found it fo at Taft by his own experience.When a Proteftant- Friend ad- monifhed him then lying on his fick -bed, That now he would by Faith a ?prebend the Me- rit of his Saviour, and acquiefce in the full Expiation by him made for fin, he immedi- ately fwallowed it as the riche(' Comfort in the World , looking on thofe in Popery but as fo many vain Fig - leaves. When Affurance, which is the top -flone of Faith is laid in our hearts, we have reafon to cry out , Grace Grace, Chri(l, Chrifi ; There whatever our Duties and Works have 'been, are the Fun- damental Reafon of all Peace and Comfort. 4 Again,
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