1. That great and known fins mußt hats a particular reg pentance, appeareth, 1. In that it is utterly incontient with the fincerity of babitual Repentance, not to beul, when.fins are known, and come into our deliberate remembrances 2d By all thofe texts which require fuch repentance, confeflion and forfiking, Jebn 2. 1, 2, 1 Jobs 1. 9. Prom 28. 33. Pfab 32. & 51.2 Cor. 7. 11. Kev, 2. 5, 16, Luke 13-3 & Jam 5 JudS» Like 6. 37. & 11. 4. Repentance confifteth chiefly in fore laking fin, and if men forfake not fuch known wilful fins, they ate wicked m Imen, and therefore are not pardoneds, brow bas 3162? That unavoidable frailties, and meer infirmities, and unknown faults, are pardoned immediately to them that are ru ty godly, and have a general and implicit Repentance, is plain becaufe elfe no man in the world could be faveds becauseiere Þy man hath such infirmities and unknownatius

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John I KC lo duob au odam b'uod ad (1 3. Yet David himself is not put by his sin into a meer graceless Rate, and as a person that hath no former Justifica tions for he prayeth God not to take his Spirit from birby are he was not deprived of the true love to God, which as the character of Gods children: But he had incurred heinous guile, and put himself in the may awards atcer damnation, and taufed a neceffity of a more particular dep Repentance before he could be fully pardoned, than else he needed.2.3 lbs IT FIER be

Before the world had a Saviour, we were all fo far unpar doned, that a fatisfying Sacrifice was neceffary to our Juftitions tion: But afterward, all men are fo far pardoned, that only the Acceptance of what is purchafed and freely (though scomditionally given, is neceffary to it. Before many arascont verted, they are yet so far unpardoned, that though no more Sacrifice be neceffary, yet) a total converfion and renovation, by Turning from a life of fin to Ged by Faith in Chrift, is neceffary to their actual juftification and forgivenefs When a mam is turned from a life of fin to God, and liveth in the fate of grace, all his following fins, which confifty with the loving of God and holiness above the world and inful pleafares, are fo far forgiven immediately upon the commitring) that they need neither another Sacrifice, nor another Regeneration, or Jubification (quoad ftatum) but only an achings of that Fire Rr3

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and Repentance, which habitually he hath already. But the unknown errours and faults of fuch godly perfons are pardoned even without that actual repentance and infirmities, without forfaking of the fin overcomingly in practice. And fo every one liveth and dyeth, in fome degree of finful defeAivenefs and omiffion, of his love to God, and trust, and hope, and zeal, and defire, and love to men, and care of his duty, and watchfulness, and fervency in prayer, meditation, &. And in fome degree of finful diforder in our ill governed thoughts, and words, and affections, or paffions, and actions: we are never fink is till we die.

Dirca. 13. Remember that you must neither think that every fin which is a caufe of Repentance, is a fi fficient reason for you to doubt of your prefent state of Juftification; nor yet that no fix can be fo great as to be a nec fary caufe of doubting.

If every fin fhould make us doubt of our Juftification, then all men must alwaics doubt: And then it must be because no fin is confiftent with fincerity, and the knowledge of fincerity; which is apparently falfe.

If no fin fhould caufe our doubting, then there is no fin which is not confiftent both with fincerity, and with the knowledge of it, which is as falfe, and much more dangerous to hold. 1. There are many fins that are utterly inconfiftent with true godliness, otherwife the godly were ungodly, and as bad as others: And if you fay that no godly man commiteth these, it is true; and therefore it is true that he that committeth them, is not a god'y man, or juftified. And how shall a man know his godliness, but by his life as the product of his inward graces? It is arguing from an uncertainty against a certainty, to fy, I am juftified and godly, and therefore my wilful fins of drunkennefs, fornication, oppreffion, lying, mabee, &c. are confiftent with Juft:fication and it is arguing from a certain truth, against ad ubred falfhood, to fay, I live in ordinary, wilful, heinous fin; therefore I am not juftified or fincere, Ephef. 5. 5, 6. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean perf n, nor covetous men, who is an Id·later, bath any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ, and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of the things semeth the wrath of Ged upon the children of disobedience,

I Cor. 6 9, 10. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inberit the Kingdom of Gid? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of them. felves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God. And fuck were fome of you, but ye are wifbed, but ye are fan&ified, but ye are justified, &c.

Rom. 8. 1, 13. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jefus, who walk not after the flf, but after the Spirit. If ye live after the flesh, ye shall di, &c. Gal. 5. 20, 21, 22,

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2. And there are many fins which confit with true grace, which will not confift with the affurance of its fincerity. And that 1. From the nature of the things; because the leaft degree of grace conjunct with, and clouded by the greatest degree of fin which may confift with it, is not difcernable to To him that hath it: He that is fo very near a state of death, and fo very like to an unjuftified perfon, can never be fure, in that cafe, that he is just fied. 2. And alfo God in Wisdom and Juftice will have it to; that fin may not be encouraged, nor prefumption cherished, nor the comfor's which are the reward of an obedient child, be caft away on an uncapable child in his ftubborn disobedience, Pfal. 51. & 32. & 77.

Therefore for a man that liveth in grof fin,to fay that he is fure that he is juftified, and therefore no fin fhall make him queft on it; is but to believe the Antinomian Devil transforming himself into an Angel of Light,and his M.nifters when they call themselves the Minifters of Righteousneß; and to deny be lief to the Spirit of Holiness and Truth. And if a true Believer fhould come very near fuch a state of death, common reason, and the due care of his own foul, obligeth him to be fufpicious of himself, and to fear the worst, till he have made fure of better, Heb. 6. & 3.10. Heb.4.1.& 12,13, 14. 1 Cor.10. John 15. 2, 7, 8, &c.

Dirca. 14. Let not the perfuafion that you are justified, make you more fecure and bold in finning, but more to hate it, as contrary to the ends of Juftification, and to the love which freely. justified you.

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Wwon the abuse of the Durive of Juftification by Faith Lione, and 'hot by Works," "did pervert your minds and lives, remember that all confeß, thus we fill be judged according to our works Castbe Chpipint of Grace the Law by bich we shall be judged by danЯeds o

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I need not recite all thofe Scriptures to you, wethi By judged, and hill receive according to done in the body, whether it be good or evil that we delite you to believe, and live accordingly. Direct. 16. Remember Hill that Faith in Chrift withus to raise ur to the Love of God, and bar perfect Holiness bigber and more excellent than the pardin And therefore defire faith, and use it for the kindling of love, and pardon of fin to endear you to God, and that you may do so no more :: And not fin, that you may have the more to be pardoned a

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The end of the Commandment is Charity, out of a pure beart and a good conference, and faith unfeigned. Rom. 6. 1, 2. Shall we continue in fin, that grace may abound God forbid: How fall they that are drad to fin, live any longer therein ? See Titus 3. 5, 6, 7. Rom. §. 143,6. Rom 1, 4, 9, Gal. 4. 6. & 5. 24, 26. So much for olc practical Directions, which are needfull for them that not Con troverfic. Legal jo Late LA SFI POVISITICIS T baile le ting2 sdt mì d

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The pernicious or dangerous Errours dete&ed, which binder the work of Faith about our Juftification; and the contrsrý Truths afferted.

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the eyes of the weak, and to hinder the life of Faith; and fo much poifon served up under the name of Juftification and Free Grace, that I should be unfaithful if I should not difcover it, either through fear of offending the guilty, or of wearying them that had rather venture upon deceit, than upon controverfic. And we are now fo fortified against the Popife and Secinian extreams, and those who mI am now direting to live by Faith, are fo fettled against them, that I think it more neceffary (having not leifure for both, and having done it heretofore in my Confeffion) to open at this time the method of falfe doctrine on the other extream,which for the most part is it which conftituteth Antinomianif though fome of them are maintained by others.

And I will first name cach crrour; and then with it, the contrary truth.

Errour 1. Chrifts fuffering was caused by the fias of none, as the affumed meritorious cause, or as they usually fay, as imputed to him, or lying on him, fave only of the Elect that shall be faved.

Contr. The fins of fallen mankind in general, except those rejections of Grace, whose pardon is not offered in the conditional Covenant, did lye on Chrift as the assumed cause of his fufferings.

See John 1.29. 2 Cor. 5. 18, 19, 20. Juhu 3. 16, 17, 18,19. Heb. 2, 9. 1 Tim. 2.4,5,6. 1 John 2.2. 1 Tim. 4. 10. 2 Pet.2.9. See Paraus in his Irenicon, & Twisse vind. & alibi paffam, laying as much, and Amyrald, Davenant, Dallaw, Teftar duo Usher, &c. proving it.

Errour 2. Christ did both perfectly obey, and also make fatif faction for fin by fuffering, in the perfon of all the Eled in the fenfe of the Law, or Gods account; fo that bis Righteousness of oben

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