. '~ 38 The'Trial and SER. 2o without fin, marry another, an~ we not tmder the Law; the word ( La,w) .is taken only for the Law, as given to the finner: Now the Law· fhould have been I .aw, though fm had never been, and is Law to the Elect Angels, who never _fini1ed ;-and that is only the Law, ·under the Notwn of that fad Office of eternal ·Condemnation ; the Law could never have been Law, except it had promiied eternal Life to thofe who do the Law: But it both is, and fhould have been Law to Believ~rs in :fefus Chrifl, to the Elect A ngels, and yet it doth not, it cannot actually condemn them. . ,. But that the GofPeJ rnaketh Adultery to be no Sjn to Believers, is a blafphemous Alfertion : .Then commit Adultery, Murther, whore, fteal; 0 Believer! thefe are not Sins to thee, butChrift's Sms, not thine: 0 turn not the Grace of God into Wantonnefs: ~he 1leliever hath no Confci1 ence of Sins : That is, He in Confcience is not to · fear everlafting CondemnaJion, that is rr.oft true ; becaufe Chrift hath delivered him from that \Vrath ~t to come, Rom. viii, I • . 7ohn v. !2.4. Faith of eternal Life by Jefus Chrift ·can confift with Fear of eternal Condemnation ; for then with a legal and _evangelical Faith, one Perfon fhould be obliged to b~lieve Things contradictory, and yet both Faiths oblige us to give Credence and Aifent: But that the Believer bath no Confcience of Sin, that - is, That he is to believe there's nothing i'n him that is Sin, is ~o believe a Lie, I .7ohn i .. 8, 9· T pat he .is to-confefs no Sin, and to be grzeved ]n Confcience for no Sin, and to farrow for no Sin; That he is to be wearjed and laden wr"". no Sin; That he is to groan unde1· the Burden or ·.to Sin, as
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