2. We are to pray continuallyh, and watch thereunto with all perseverance, iand keep our selves in the love of God. Watch kand pray. Waite lfor the coming of the Lord with girded up loins, mwait for the day of our redemption. Then are we obliged by the command of Christ, whether the holy Ghost breath on us, or the wind of the Spirit blow fair from Christs heart, on our heart, or no, to the supernatural acts of praying, believing, hoping, watching. Nor is Christs act of free grace in drawing, stirring, and actual inliving, our obliging rule, but the revealed will of God in the Law and Gospel; nand if we be mere passive as stones, and only obliged to supernatural acts, when the tide of free love, and rich grace floweth on the shore and banks of our withered Spirits, then we must not only say, we are freed from the Law, but from all Gospel-commands, all free invitations of rich grace, according ⟨p. 56⟩to the letter, or then that the Spirit is obliged to attend and join his bedewings and flowing of free love and grace, ever when we hear or read the Gospel. But when nSaltmarsh, oTown, and others of that Tribe say, the Gospel is not in the letter, duty, opinion, sense, reason, but in the Spirit, life, grace, faith, they mean the same with New England pLibertines; That the will of God in the word, or directions thereof, are not the rule whereunto Christians are bound to conform themselves, to live thereafter. So as old Anabaptists taught, we shall all be taught of God, and the anointing teacheth us all things, and therefore the written Scripture, Law, Gospel, the Ordinances of Preaching, Reading, Praying, Sacraments, belong not to us: to be under them, is to be under the Law, and the old dead Letter, and the lifeless, passive, Inky, and poor Paper-ordinances of Men, and not under the Gospel, that is, under the immediate actings of the Spirit; contrary to the Word of God, which maketh an harmonious subordination, not a contrariety between outward ordinances, and the inward working of the Holy Ghost, to the qLaw, and the Testimony, rthe weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but spiritual and mighty through God. Here are both Word and Spirit. As for me sthis is my covenant with them, saith the Lord, my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy Seed, &c. 2.
2. We are to pray continuallyh, and watch thereunto with all perseverance, iand keepe our selves in the love of God. Watch kand pray. Waite lfor the comming of the Lord with girded up loynes, mwaite for the day of our redemption. Then are wee obliged by the command of Christ, whether the holy Ghost breath on us, or the wind of the Spirit blow faire from Christs heart, on our heart, or no, to the supernaturall acts of praying, beleeving, hoping, watching. Nor is Christs act of free grace in drawing, stirring, and actuall inliving, our obliging rule, but the revealed will of God in the Law and Gospel; nand if we be meere passive as stones, and onely obliged to supernaturall acts, when the tide of free love, and rich grace floweth on the shoare and banks of our whithered Spirits, then wee must not onely say, we are freed from the Law, but from all Gospel-commands, all free invitations of rich grace, according ⟨p. 56⟩to the letter, or then that the Spirit is obliged to attend and joyne his bedewings and flowing of free love and grace, ever when we heare or read the Gospel. But when nSaltmarsh, oTowne, and others of that Tribe say, the Gospel is not in the letter, dutie, opinion, sense, reason, but in the Spirit, life, grace, faith, they meane the same with New England pLibertines; That the will of God in the word, or directions thereof, are not the rule whereunto Christians are bound to conform themselves, to live thereafter. So as old Anabaptists taught, wee shall all bee taught of God, and the annointing teacheth us all things, and therefore the written Scripture, Law, Gospel, the Ordinances of Preaching, Reading, Praying, Sacraments, belong not to us: to be under them, is to be under the Law, and the old dead Letter, and the livelesse, passive, Inkie, and poore Paper-ordinances of Men, and not under the Gospel, that is, under the immediate actings of the Spirit; contrary to the Word of God, which maketh an harmonious subordination, not a contrariety betweene outward ordinances, and the inward working of the Holy Ghost, to the
- h1 Thes. 5.17
- iEph. 6.18.
- kJude v.21.Iude v.21.
- lMath. 26.41.
- mLuk. 21.36.28. Math. 24.•2, 43, •4, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49. Rom. 28.13, 24.
- n1 Pet. 1.13.
- nSaltmarsh, 15•.153.154 155.156.157.
- oTown user. pag, 12.13.9. and through all.Towne •sser. pag, 12.13.9. and through all.
- pRise, reign, er▪Rise, raigne, er▪
- qIsaiah. 8.20.Esai. 8.20.
- r2 Cor. 10 4.
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