CHAP. LXVII. Of Legall and Evangelicall conversion.
WEe deny not, but there is a Legall conversion, and Gospel terrours, and Gospel-hell fire, and condemnation, and the worme that never dyes, and that nature may propose ends to it selfe, in turning to God outwardly; and that as incident to Antinomians, as to any generation of people. For it is knowne that many Antinomians are deluded, not converted by a worke of the Law, storming and quelling the conscience, with the smoake and fire-slaughts of everlasting burning, especially where the conscience neighbours wich a Melancholike com∣plexion, and when the party comes to such a Physitian as M. Saltmarsh, though there be no inward change in the heart, no evidences either to him, or the deluded soule of a new and in∣ward worke, but the party still in the gall of bitternesse, no sense of sinne, but a dumbe beastly feeling of the flashes of hell fire, a Pharaoh-like disposition, the counterfeit white Angel saith to the perplexed soule, Beleeve everlasting love, and read Pharaoh, and Simon Magus, and your own names in the Lambes Booke of life, beleeve and apply immediately, with∣out care, conscience, or sense of sinne, or humiliation, (all these are reprobate money to buy grace, away with them) to come to the bloud of attonement; come, though yee be neither wea∣rie nor laden, nor pricked in heart with sinne; and be yee assu∣redly perswaded, that that bloud was shed for you, that yee are as cleane from sin 160. agoe, as Christ himselfe. Honey combe, cap. 3. pag. 25. Mourne no more, be not humbled, doe nothing at all, but rest upon what Christ hath done for you, rejoyce e∣vermore; sorrowing for sinne is Legall unbeliefe, severe and