A25467:1379
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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IV. But among people fearing God, there is yet another cause of Melancholy, and of sorrowing overmuch; and that is Ignorance and mistakes in ma•••• which their peace and comforts are concerned in, I will name some particulars.
IV. But among people fearing God, there is yet another cause of Melancholly, and of sorrowing overmuch; and that is Ignorance and mistakes in ma•••• which their peace and comforts are concerned in, I will name some particulars.
1. One […] Ignorance of the tenor of the Gospel or Covenant of Grace, as some Libertines (called Antinomians) more dangerously mistake it, who tell men that Christ hath Repented and believed them, and that they must no more question their Faith and Repentance, than they must question the righteousness of Christ; so many better Christians understand not that the Gospel is tidings of unspeakable joy to all that will believe it; and that Christ and Life are offered freely to them that will accept him, and that no sins, how great or many soever are excepted from pardon, to the soul that unfeignedly turneth to God by faith in Christ, that whoever will may freely take the water of life, and all that are weary and thirst are invited to come to him for ease and rest.
1. One 〈…〉 Ignorance of the tenor of the Gospel or Covenant of Grace, as some Libertines (called Antinomians) more dangerously mistake it, who tell men that Christ hath Repented and believed them, and that they must no more question their Faith and Repentance, than they must question the righteousness of Christ; so many better Christians understand not that the Gospel is tidings of unspeakable joy to all that will believe it; and that Christ and Life are offered freely to them that will accept him, and that no sins, how great or many soever are excepted from pardon, to the soul that unfeignedly turneth to God by faith in Christ, that whoever will may freely take the water of life, and all that are weary and thirst are invited to come to him for ease and rest.