&tt. 21 Triumph of Fai~h· . 237 6. The fixth Irigredtent m ~auh IS, . that the Sinner can ]ay hold on the Promtfe. 1. Not fimpl y, but with relati?n to ~he Pr~cept; for pr~ fumptuous S?uls plunge m their_fo~l Souls .m fair and precwus Prom1fes, and thts IS the Faith of Antinomians, for the Promife is not holden forth to Sinners as Sinners, but as to fuch Sinners, for we make Faith to be an AB: of a Sinner humlHed wearied, laden, poor, felt-condemned ; now thef~ ·be not call Sinners, but only fome kind of Sinners. Antinomiam make Faith an AB: of a loftv Pharifee, of a vile Perfon, ~fplying with an jmmediate Touch, immediato conta8u, his hot boiling a~d frnoaking, Lufts to Chrift's Wounds, :Blood; Merits, without any Confcience of a precedent Commandment, that the Perfon thus believing, fhould be humbled, wearied, loaden, grieved for Sin. I confefs this is haity hot \Vork, ' and maketh Faith a ftride, or one fingle R-ep ; but it's ·a wanton, flefhly., and a prefumptuous immediate Work to lav hold on the Promiies of .:Mercy and be faved:, This is the abfolute and loofe Faith, that Papi(ls and Armini,;,ms flande-reth o~r Doa1:ine withal, becaufe we rejed all foregomg Ment~, good \yorks, congruous Difpo- . fitions, PreparatiOns movmg God to 1C<mvert this Man, becaufe he bath fuch Prepara\ions; and to 1·ejetl: and to leave another Man to his own hardne:!$ of Heart, becaufe he hath no fuch Payment in Hand, by which he may redeem and buy Con. ver~on, and the. G!ace of effetl:t<al Calling; efpecially, they bmldmg all upon a liabet of their own Brick and Clay, that free will in all Atts of Obedience before or after Converiion, is abfo!ute1 y different to do, or not do ; to obey, or not obey ; to
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