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The seventh Maxim or Consideration.

Seventhly, consider, That all men and women that are desirous to know how it will go with them in another world, they must peremptorily resolve to be determined by Scripture in the great matters of their interest in Christ; the blessed Scripture is the great uncontroverted Rule,¹ and therefore if a person can prove from Scripture that his graces are true, or that he is in a gracious estate, or that he has an interest in Christ, or that he has sayingly, graciously stricken Covenant with God, then he must resolutely and peremptorily resolve to grant so much as unchangeably to acquiesce in it, to stick fast to it, and to hear nothing against it, from the world, the flesh, or the devil. God hath plainly told us in his blessed Word, who shall be saved, and who shall be damned, though not by name, yet by the qualifications, by which they are described in the Bible; there are the Statute-Laws of heaven, and the standing Rule by which all must be tried, every man must stand or fall, be eternally blessed, or eternally miserable, as his condition is consonant to, or various from the infallible characters of saving grace contained in the holy Scripture, witness that, Isa. 8.20. To the Law and to the Testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light (or no morning) in them. So John 12.48. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him; the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. Mat. 5.18. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, on jot, or one title shall in no wise pass from the Law till all be fulfilled. So John 10.35. And the ⟨p. 21⟩