Rutherford - HP BS2575 .4 R975 1743

. , "' ~'4'2 'rhtTrial and , . Sn. 20 as P!oduceth rr:~ankfgiving ~~d Triumphing in Chnft, Rom. vu. 25. Rom. vm. r,z. may, &cloth confifl: with Complaints and Outcries of a wretched Condition, for the Indwelling of the B~dy ?f ~n,/ Rom. vu. 14, r 5, 16, z ,·, 24. Then the · Jufbfied th~t are whole, not fick, not pained, are yet in their fins, and not juftified, whatever /lntinomians fay on the Contrary. 4· The Fle!h in the J uftified cannot complain of indwelling fin 7 but the Fle1h, mixt with fome Life of Chrift, may raife a falfe Alarm of fins not pardoned, which are really pardoned: Some faHe Grief may, and often bath its Rife from a · falfe and imaginary Ground; as a fantlified Soul / may praife God through Occafron of a lying Report of the Victory of the ChU1'ch of God, when there is rio fuch Matter : A fanCtified Child may fpiritually mourn for the fuppoied Death of his Father; or. that he bath offended his Father according to the Flefh, when his Father is neither dead nor oflended at all : So gracious ·Affections as gracious, may Work fpiritually ·qpon fuppofed and falfe Grounds, when ,there is no Caufe : As that the foul bath grieved his heavenly :Father, and that he is difpleafed when it is not fo. . 5· SrN indwelljng is a greater E~il than th.e feared Evil of ten Hells ; and therefore there IS more Caufe of U>rrow fi>r fin, Confeffion, Difquietnef~ of Spirit after T uftification than before; becaufe fin, the onlytrue.ObjeB: of Fear an~ Di.f.. quietnefs of fpirit, is both a Gueft dwellmg m the fcml, and is more really and diftjntlly apprehended as a fpiritual Evil, after the Light of Faith bath fhown us the finfulnefs of :tin, than ever it was difcovered to be before. 6.1

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