the Law called the Commandment two commandments ten words know this for thy future eternal good That Adam through his lost the image of God conformity in heart and life to the Law Christ as Priest besides other things hath purchased conformity to the Law God in Christ hath promised this conformity Christ as a Prophet he reveals the Law as a King subjects man 's will unto it and for this cause puts his spirit in the hearts of his people God gives them faith whereby they believe that God according to his gracious covenant will pardon their sins and put his Laws in their minds and write them in their hearts give them to obey the Law and repentance also even sorrow for breaking the commandments with an endeavour of obedience therefore the Antinomian in slighting of the Law of God I speak not of it as a covenant of works slights Christ's three-fold-Office slights the covenant of Grace the Office of the holy Ghost bewrayes his want of the Divine nature the image of God the new man which is subject to the Law of God and to have a carnal mind which neither is nor can be subject to the law he knowes not what Faith is what repentance means O Antinomian that sayest Christ must be all and man nothing is Christ the Lord thy God and dost thou worship him according to that Psal 45 ii And whether art thou of the number of those that every where call upon the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord according to that 1 Cor. 1.2 2. Whether is Christ thy leader and commander and dost thou obey him as it is Isa 55.4 He commands thee to repent believe ask seek knock strive to enter in at the strait gate to deny thy self take up thy cross to watch and pray to say Hallowed be thy Name thy kingdom come thy will be done c. to say Forgive us our trespasses to pray in good earnest for pardon of thy sins daily Dost thou obey Christ herein if not though thou sayest that Christ is thy all yet thou dost but mock Christ and makest him nothing I fear thou dreamest according to a discovery of thee and such as thou art that Christ was but a meer man and that coming unto God by faith he was godded with God and that herein he is an example and pattern unto us and thou imitating Christ herein thou likewise art godded with God equal to Christ yea past him in respect of any further use thou hast of him and a Christ to others O Antinomian God ere long will awake thee out of thy dream concerning his Son and thy self fear shall surprise thee the terrors of God shall compass thee trouble and anguish shall take hold upon thee 15. The spirit of God is a free spirit and doth establish the people of God Establish me saith David with thy free spirit he is free in his operations he bloweth where he listeth his influences and breathings are gracious Psal 51.12 he frees the spirits of the saints for and in duties of piety and mercy he doth stablish strengthen and settle the saints according to the promise 1 Pet. 5.10 he doth not suffer the souls in whom he dwells to be unstable souls tossed to and fro and carryed about with every wind of Doctrine to turn Anabaptists seperatists Quakers Blasphemers to turn with the dog to the vomit and the sow to the wallowing in the mire and the unclean spirit to return with seven other spirits worse then himself that so his latter end should be worse then his beginning Lastly they that are possessed with the holy Ghost are far from sinning against the holy Ghost yea they are troubled at the thought of that sin this sin is not as some fancy when a man will not be convinced by miracles that Jeius is the Christ this sin is after illumination conviction It is saith Christ a word against the holy Ghost it is blaspheming and reproaching the holy Ghost as we read expresly in the Evangelists those that after they have escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of the Lord Jesus do depart from the holy commandment given unto them and wallow in sin that sin willingly after they have received the knowledge of the truth do despite it 's said expresly to the spirit of grace and are guilty of this sin see Heb. 10. 2 Pet. 2. The Pharisees sinned against the holy ghost in saying that that spirit by which Christ spake and wrought Miracles was an unclean spirit Mark 3 28,29,30 And do not our Quakers those I mean who were enlightened sin against the holy ghost in saying that that spirit in Christ's Ministers by which they preach which is the same spirit is an unclean spirit a Devil Yea they that are possessed with the holy ghost are not only far from sinning against the holy ghost but they are afraid of those sins we read of in the Scriptures viz. Tempting resisting vexing of the holy spirit of God yea further of quenching or grieving of him and when as through sin he is grieved their spirits are grieved their souls are greatly troubled they cry out Take not thy holy spirit from us Psal 51.11 But some may say It seems that some that are enlightened taste of the heavenly gift are made partakers of the holy ghost fall away and so fall short of heaven I answer The seed of saving grace once sown in the heart of a man though it be but as a grain of Mustard-seed doth never perish but through the spirit of grace is stil preserved this grace in the very first moment it is infused created differeth much from that we call common grace it 's a thousand times better a fruit of God's eternal love purchased with Christ's blood and promised onely to such as God sprinkles with this blood Ezek. 36.25,26 and differenceth a mans duties from the duties of the ungodly both in respect of the manner and end as also though it be but a dram it denominateth a man gracious and in time is prevalent against corruptions The spirit of God may in reference to the glory of God the churches good inlighten the reprobate by the Ministry of the word so as he may be much affected reformed yet he never attains a new heart a good honest heart he never becomes a new creature all his reluctancy and duties are in reference to himself his faith is feigned his love is feigned he himself but a wretched hypocrite at the best there is alwayes a vast distance even betwixt him and the broken Reed betwixt his grace if you call it grace and the smoking flax the root of the matter is not in him neither any good thing towards the Lord Jehu though he was zealous for the Lord and Judas forward for the poor yet they had no spark of true grace Solomon when he was at the lowest had a spark though no more and that buryed under many ashes he had somewhat of the