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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⟩build their Peace upon any thing in themselves, is to forsake Christ and make themselves their own Saviours: and those Teachers that perswade 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 alwayes at uncertainties, and at a loss, or unconstant, up and down in our Comforts, as long as we take them from any signes in our selves. Also our own Graces are Imperfect, and therefore unfit to be the Evidences for our Assurance.

Answ. Because I am not now purposely confuting the Antinomians, but only forearming you against their assaults; I shall no• therefore give you half that I should otherwise say, for the Explication of this Point, and the Confutation of their Errors; but only so much as is necessary to your preservation▪ Which I do, because they pretend to be th only Preachers of free Grace, and the only right Comforters of troubled Consciences; & because they have written so many books to that end, which if they fall into your hand may seem so specious, as that you may nee some preservative. I suppose you remember