Rutherford - HP BS2575 .4 R975 1743

Sntt 2.o Triumph of Pait'h; · ~4f i. Many dare not queftion · their State of Juftification, and fo are f:eed from the St<?rms of ~plJreht>rtded_ Wrath anfing fro'? ~h. e Gu1lt ofSm :, Yet there ts another Storm wtth1p the Bowels of the Sea, arHin'g from the Indwelling dftlie Body cf Guilt ; the. Stdrm before J uftificatidn it lefs free, lefs ingenuous, more fervile; as looklng ta that eternal Wrath hanging over the Sou1 far unpardonabie Sin : This is more free, a~d i_s a peace~ able, a gracious and heavenly Stonn ~atfe·ci ; not for Sin.uripardoned, and the eternal Punifhment thereof, but for fin as fin, as indwelling; nof for the penal Guilt and the Sting of Hell ,in' Sin, but fi>t the finful Guilt; and.. tlie wounding: of Chrift. 1 . 'Tis in'ifoffible this latter Sform c·an ~e i11 tlie Soul, til the Sentence of J u11tfication be pronounced ; as none can have tl1e .moved Bowels of a Son for the Offence df c'l Father, ·till he be a Son. 2. Anotltet Caf~ i§1 That many hate an ab7f()lute, loofe, and l.ax Peace and Calmnefs, gr~at Confidence of Deliverance from eternal Wtath; 1 and fo of a: fuppofed Pardon, whofe Peace is convinced to but . a bafe Out-fide, aiid tneer· Paintry and Fairding; be~aufe there is in t~ern no ftorni for fin as ftn, and for the Ovet..mot1ons of bo1iing tuf~s . ; no Tendernefs tt> walk . fpiri..- 'tually. A Faith tliat eate'h out the ~ottom; and Bowels of Confcience,of declining fin; and · · walk ing with God, is the J ufiification of the An.;. tinomiansf of the old Gnoflick!~ qf,the nafural l\-1~n : Al our Profeifots are cured, non'e ot few ·are healed. ~. Full A<furance that Chriff hath ddiverecf PauJ from: Condemnation; yeta) i(rfuU: and f~ah· ~ · as "' ~ rh"• ' c;Jr

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