N I vv c 0 V 1i N ANT. hee fues toChri:ft,as a weake Seholler cloth to a Schoolemafl:er, anddefires him to performe it for him, this brings him toChrift; but,faith he, • when you are once come to chri/1, when Faith comes,we are no more under a SchoolcmaOer, aMan never comes under the Law againe. But, youwill object, Was it not Jobs cafe'? !f!!!eft. did not the Lerdwrite bitter things againfr him, and he was a j ufl: Man,and one that feared God? Was it not D o~vids cafe? Were not his bones broken,as he corn plaines, after the committing ofthe fihofAdult{ ry ~ Doe not manyJindeby experience,that Godhathwounqed thern femetimes with the wounds of an enemy, and hath feemed to cafi themoff, even after they have received the fpirit ofAdoption -: .Bdoved,tothis I anfwer,itisvery true, there AH_{ll1. are fome awakings that a man may have,a Man Ts ' ~oughthe • c: f h amtsm;y may be put mtoa· great reare_a ter e hath rehavefcarc & ceived the fpirit ofAdoption, he may trembie-..L t<:rroun ~ tter d . .1 l h f' G OD I r. . I Conver(Jan, ,exee tng y at t 1e wrat o ; tay, I yetthey reall this he may doe, yet he never receives the ce.i~cnor thc fpirit ofbondage ac:rainethat is he never fpmtaf~on· · c ' ' dage ag~me. comes to this,tobe to God as afervantistoa hardMafier, butalwayesthis perfwafion isin him, that Godis his Father, and frill he hatb ~he affection ofa fonne, and ll:ill he bath that opinion, that Godis his Father, that affection ne.. ver weares out of him, he never comes againe to lookeonGod, as the Theefe 1ookes on the· Judge, he t1ever comes to bee fi1ch a ll:ranger to theLord, fo as to .fliefrom him:for the fpirit ~ Hh3 of
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