•94 1he Trial and SIR. 21 lkliever ought not to know, that he is elected to Glory ; he yet bsi~g an Unbeliever, fo his Knowledge cannot devtate from a Rule, which doth not oblige to Conformity therewith, as with a Rule; the_ Pourtraiture of Oefa.r doth not err from the Samplar, becaufe it is not like a Bull .o.r a Horfe, becauie neither a Bull nor a Horfe is the due Samplar. , ~· To war;ant an unworthy h':lmble finner, to believe there s no need of a pofitlve vYarrant or ofa Voice to fay (thou are ete8ed to Glory, tberefore beUe·ve) the Word. is near thee in thy llfouth~ l yea there is a Commandment laid upon the humbled finner : Come 0 "'.veary'antlloaden Sinner to Chri(l, and be eafed) Now when the \Vind hlowe~h fweetly and fair upon an humbled :Unner, who is eleB:ed to Glory, there goeth the Spirit of the Gofpd along with this Commandment ; and the \Vord of Commandment, and the Spirit united in ()ne, aB:eth and .worketh {q upon the Soul, th•t 1:he humbled finner cannot be deluded and led on ,a Rock of Prefmnption; for tl1is Spirit joineth and dofeth with bjs Spirit,'and he, as one of CqriWs Sheep, knoweth this to be the Voice of Chriit. I · l grant, when the fame Command of Faith cometh to the Ears of a Reprobate, he may, upon a falfe Ground, believe, or rather preft1me : He neither being rightly humbled, and fitted for Chrifr; nor can the Reprobate know and dii~ern the Wind of ';the Sp~rit, breathing with the Command, and acting upon his Spirit, becaufe that Wind neither £an, :nor doth breathe upon any Reprobate, and there is no need -of any pofitive Warrant to afcertain a Child of God to believe, befide the Commandment of faith inlivcned and quickned with the
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