A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast,…A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast,…

But to speak a little of this for the times; The Papist is the black Devil, taking away all certainty of assurance that we are in Christ, or that any man can know this. The Antinomian is the Golden white Devil; a spirit of Hell clothed with all Heaven, and the notions of Free Grace: and first, the Well-head of all is, Free Grace in us is a dream, Sanctification inherent is a fiction, Christ is all, there is no Grace existent in the creature, Grace is all in Christ, and nothing but imputed righteousness, for if ⟨p. 33⟩works of sanctification be not marks intelligible, or which can come in under the capacity of received light, to be known with any certainty or assurance. 1. The joy and rejoicing that we have in the the testimony of a good conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have our conversation in the World, 2 Cor. 1. 12. must be a dream. David, Job, Moses, Samuel, the Prophets and Apostles, their joying in a good conscience, arise from doubtful and conjectural evidences: yea, no man can say in any assurance, (I believe in Christ,) (in the inner man, I delight in the Law of the Lord,) (I am crucified to the world,) (my conversation is in Heaven) for all these are inherent qualifications in the child of God, but they are doubtful and uncertain. How then hath God promised to love the righteous, to reward believing with life eternal, to give the prize to him that runneth? &c. 2. The testimony of the Spirit bearing witness to our spirit, that we are the children of God, Rom. 8. 16. is in this sense an immediate act of the Spirit, because reflex acts of the soul are performed without any other medium or means, but that whereby the direct acts are performed: I know that I know; I know that I believe; my sense by that same immediate operation of the Spirit, by the which I know God without any other light, teacheth me to know that I know God: even as by light I see colours, but my common sense needeth not another Sun, or another light, to make me know that I see colours. The Lamb when it seeth a Wolfe, though it never did see a Wolfe before, knoweth it to be an enemy, and fleeth: but to make it know that it knoweth the Wolfe, there is nothing required but the internal and common instinct of nature:

But to speake a little of this for the times; The Papist is the blacke Devill, taking away all certainty of assurance that wee are in Christ, or that any man can know this. The Antinomian is the Golden white Devill; a spirit of Hell cloathed with all Heaven, and the notions of Free Grace: and first, the Well-head of all is, Free Grace in us is a dreame, Sanctification inherent is a fiction, Christ is all, there is no Grace existent in the crearure, Grace is all in Christ, and nothing but imputed righteousnesse, for if