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4. And this being still constantly avowed by persons religious, and judicious, who then heard him, is no way removed, or contradicted by that which be here relateth to have bin the main use of his Sermon: and all which I doubt not, but that, Mr Eaton himself, were he yet surviving, would readily subscribe unto.

Nor do I make any question but that those two parties, who pronounce, the one of them ^*such believers, to be but poor melancholy creatures, as are much troubled for new sins, supposing God to be angry with them for the same; the other, that it is ^†a sign of the spirit of Antichrist in persons, to be afraid of this sin, and of that sin; and consequently of any sin; yet would either of them own the confession ⟨p. 9⟩that Mr S. here speaks of, and ^†telleth us, is the best confession: to wit, whereby we confess that our sins are laid upon Christ. Neither is this that confession that ^*David, and other ^†men of God, made of their sins, recorded in the word; nor that which the word of God under that term and title of confession ^†requireth of us; but an acknowledgement of them, as offences committed by us against God, and our sincere and serious sorrow for the same. Neither would the confession ^*made over the head of the Scape-goat, ever have availed any, unless it were accompanied, with inward remorse and contrition of spirit, as