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much more, though you may have frequent returning doubts of your Adoption.

Having thus showed you how far you may expect the Witness of the Spirit, and how far you may and must make use of Marks, and Qualifications or Actions of your own, for the obtaining of Assurance and settled Peace; I shall add an Answer to the Principal Objections of the Antinomians against this.

Having thus shewed you how far you may expect the Witness of the Spirit, and how far you may and must make use of Marks, and Qualifications or Actions of your own, for the obtaining of Assurance and setled Peace; I shall add an Answer to the Principal Objections of the Antinomians against this.

Object. (They say) This is to draw men from Christ to themselves, and from the Gospel to the Law: to lay their Comforts and ⟨p. 74⟩build their Peace upon any thing in themselves, is to forsake Christ and make themselves their own Saviours: and those Teachers that persuade them to this, are Teachers of the Law, and false Prophets, who draw men from Christ to themselves. All our own Righteousness is as a menstruous cloth, and our best works are sin, and therefore we may not take up our Assurance or Comforts from them. We shall be always at uncertainties, and at a loss, or unconstant, up and down in our Comforts, as long as we take them from any signs in our selves. Also our own Graces are Imperfect, and therefore unfit to be the Evidences for our Assurance.

Object. (They say) This is to draw men from Christ to themselves, and from the Gospel to the Law: to lay their Comforts and ⟨p. 74⟩