A discourse of conscience wherein is set down the nature, properties, and differences thereofA discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof

Thirdly, we are here to ••rke and to re• ber with care, the foundation of the […] certain of mans salo•ion For if man be bound in conscience first to give assent to the Gosp•t and secondly to apply […] to himself by true faith, then without doubt a man by faith may be certainly persuaded of his own […] and salvation in this […] without any extraordinary revelation: Gods commandments being in this and the like case• possible. For commandments are either Legal or Evangelical. Legal show us ••t disease, but give us no remedy: and the perfect doing of them according to the intent of the law giver, by reason of mans weakness and through mans default, is impossible in this world. As for Evangelical commandments, they have this privilege, that they may and can be performed according to the intention of the Lawgiver in this life: because with the commandment is joined the inward operation of the spirit, to enable us to effect the duty commanded: and the will of God is not to require absolute perfection at our hands in the Gospel as in the law: but rather to qualify the rigour of the law by the satisfaction ⟨p. 37⟩of a mediator in our steads and of us (we being in Christ) to accept the upright will and endeavour for the deed; as the will to repent, and the will to believe, for repentance and true faith indeed. Now then if things required in the Gospel, be both ordinary and possible, then for a man to have an unfallible certainty of his own salvation, is both ordinary & possible. But more of this point afterward.

Thirdly, we are here to ••rke and to re• ber with care, the foundation of the 〈…〉 certen•e of mans salo•ion For if man be bound in conscience first to giue assent to the Gosp•t and secondly to applie 〈…〉 to himselfe by true faith, then without doubt a man by faith may be certenly perswaded of his owne and saluation in this without any extordinarie reuelation: Gods commaundements beeing in this and the like case possible. For commaundements are either Legall or Evangelicall. Legall shew vs t disease, but giue vs no remedie: and the perfect doing of them according to the intent of the law giuer, by reason of mans weaknes and through mans default, is impossible in this world. As for Evangelicall commandements, they haue this priuiledge, that they may and can be performed according to the intention of the Lawgiuer in this life: because with the commandement is ioyned the inward operation of the spirit, to inable vs to effect the dutie commaunded: and the will of God is not to require absolute perfection at our hands in the Gospel as in the law: but rather to qualifie the rigour of the law by the satisfaction