Shepard - Houston-Packer Collection BV4914 .S5 1659

6 z wing per.; diti,41 is a unto Chtift for grace and power to leave fin hinVelf. and do better, whereby they may fave them- vi felves ; and fo they live upon Chrift that they may live of thernfelves; they go 1nto Chrift they get not into Chriji-, Pfal.78. 3 4, '3 5. like hirelings that go for power todò their work, that they may earn their wages. A child of God contents himfelf with, and lives upon the Inheritance it felf, the Lord in his free mercy bath given him.- But now we alai{ fee many poor Chriftians that run in the very road the Papifts devoutly go to hell in. The con- Fira , the Papifb will confefs his mifery fefli n of that he is ( and all men are) by nature a child PaPiRs ill of wrath and under the power of fin and three plr- ticuiarg. Satan. Secondly , they hold Chrift is the onlySavi- our. Thirdly, that this Salvation is nót by any righreoufnefs in a Chrift , but righteoufnefs from a Chrift, only by giving a man power to do, and then dipping mans doings in his llood,he merits their life. Thui the wifell and devoteft of them profefs, as I am able to ma- nifeft ; juit fo do manyChriftians live Firft they feet themfelves full offin, and are fom- times tired and weary of themfelves, for their vile -hearts, and they find no power to help themfelves. Secondly hereupon hearing , that only Chrift can fave them, they go unto Chrift to remove thefe fins that tire them, and load them, that he wouldenablethem todo better then formerly. Thirdly, if they get thefe fins The Sincere Convert.

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