~38 rreachlngConfcience nolegaipreaching:· Cap.17.legall firiB:nefs, andoldLeavmof the Phari..:. • .. fees; faith was enough, faith was all : But when Confcience ceafid, faith deceafed, they . 1 • put away Con!Cience, faith fuffered lbip– wrack. S<? that we may more rightly call this an old.new·Teftament-error,to criedown flrictnefs, thet~ you, our preaching it anold• .,'IeftamemTruth and Do8:dne; This opini::O · on broke out almofr as foon as the preaching . of the Gofpel. Paul had preached , That where fin had tflbounded and reigned, grace diJ much more abound and reign, Rom. 5. zo. ·· o~ thers inferred hence as goodDoB:rine, and . the right knowledg oftheGofpd~andwalk– ing by a fpirit of libertie, Then may we continue in fin, that grace mayabound,Rom.6. I. Paul ihad faid, fin !hall not have dominion over regenerate believers, For we aremt under the law, butgrace. Hence others concluded, We may fin, becaufi we are no longer;under the Law,butunder grace, Rom.6.I<hl5· Paulre• futes the impietie of both Affertions witli the fame anfwer, deteft:ing both, Godf orbid, Rom.6.2. & 1). Thefe Tarer we iee fprung up as ioonas the good Seedb~gan to appear~ We wonder the lefs if among us there be fome that fay, Belitveonce, and away with Confcience, andDutie, andWorks,and h'ave no moreCotzfoience ofi1n. The truth is, once believe ,. and tho·u haft no mor~Confcience of .Gn, as ·to the guilt and punifbment of it : . Bnt once believe:; and ever make confcience of.fin, to avoid~ r~efift, and ~ortijie it, that i'i: rei~il
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