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"venant of Works." Short Stor. Pref. 66 Page 4.

REFUTATION.

If a Man is not to be troubled at Sin, or have any Uneafinefs from a Consciousness thereof, he will never repent, nor make that fincere Atonement required by the Gofpel. In II. Sam. xii. 12, 13. we are told that the Lord put away DAVID's Sin, and that he should not die; therefore he was a juftified Perfon. We are likewise told that be was a Man after God's own Heart. Yet his Bones waxed old for very Trouble at his Sins; and he roared all the Day long. Pf. x. 13. 14. He fays-" Wherefore doth "the Wicked contemn God? he hath fay"ed in his Heart, Thou wilt not require "it. Thou haft feen it, for thou beboldest

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Mifchief, and Spite to requite it with thy "Hand." Since the Lord then fees Sin, and requites it with Vengeance, muft not Man have Trouble at it.

If the Threats of the whole Scriptures be against Sin, muft we fay that-it is not worth a Thought; and must we treat every Thing like a Fly that puts us in Mind of it. Or, as it is phrased in Cennick's Collection, muft we beware of that Wisdom that rea*fons us away from Chrift, by every new

Difcovery of our Sins or Sinfulness." I a Senfe of Crime be reafoning Men away from

from Chrift; then a great Part of the Scriptures is either falfe, or not to be understood in the ufual Senfe and Acceptation of Words. Likewife, if we are not to have a Senfe of Crime the Law of Nature was given in vain, and the Stingings of Conscience, are impertinent and useless. The holy Man Afaph, Pf. lxxviii. 3. from a Senfe of Crime, and the Lord's Anger at it; fays-he was troubled when he remembered "God."

ERROR V.

We should not endeavour against Sin. PROOF that this is Moravian Doctrine.

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HE Count fpeaking, Page 132, 133. of People that endeavour against Sin fays," They are fubject to all the Danger, "that can befal a weak and feeble Crea"ture, which will refift a greater and stronger Power. They do but expose

themfelves. They have no Power to "leave their Sin, their old Hufband, and "dare not live with another." And in Page 145, he fays-" HERE one need not go about to ranfack one's Paffions and Corruptions, nor anxiously endeavour to "mend one's felf. For Grace overflows all our Sins, they are all covered with the "Blood of the Lamb."

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PROOF that this is Antinomian Doctrine.

"He that puts his Feebleness in Array against Sin, is like a Man that runs to "bear up a falling Tower which crushes "him to Death with its Weight." Short Stor. Page 33.

REFUTATION.

THIS Error, which is abominable, stands refuted by Reafon, and a Review of the common Nature of Things. For all Acts of Piety and Virtue, recommended through the Scriptures, imply at the fame Time an Exhortation to oppofe Sin in all its Species and Degrees, For every Reinforcement an Army receives fuppofes a proportionable Oppofition and Defeat of the Enemy. But it is exprefsly contrary to 2 Pet. iii. 17. Beware left ye alfo being "led away with the Error of the Wicked, "fall from your own Stedfaftnefs." And to bid them beware of this Error, is bidding them to endeavour against it: But there are feveral Texts as pointed and plain as this.

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ERROR VI.

That the Law is wholly abolished, and that Chriftians are not obliged to do any Thing that is commanded; it being inconfiftent with the Freedom of a Chriftian; because it is commanded.

PROOF that this is Moravian Doctrine.

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HE Count, Page 41. fpeaking of the Contest between the Flefh and Spirit mentioned in Rom. vii. by St. Paul, and after concluding that thofe who have fuch Contest are no true Chriftians, fays-" They "(to wit new Light Chriftians) flipped "their Necks out of the Collar of the Law, "that kept them in Bondage before (for "the Law is the Power of Sin)." And in Page 118. fpeaking of People's finning daily, he makes the Law of God the Cause of it; faying," But there is a fecret

Caufe of it, if no Law was given in "Commandment, the wicked Heart would "remain as it is, and the Tranfgreffions "would be lefs frequent." It is needless to attempt further Proofs of this, which they daily affert; though I might an hundred. I fhall only add the Words of the Meffrs. Wefleys in their Short View, Page 13. Error 4. "That Chrift has taken away all other “Commands and Duties, having wholly

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PROOF that this is Antinomian Doctrine.

"He that puts his Feebleness in Array against Sin, is like a Man that runs t "bear up a falling Tower which crush "him to Death with its Weight." Sh Stor. Page 33.

REFUTATION.

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