A discourse about the state of true happiness delivered in certain sermons in Oxford,…A discourse about the state of true happinesse deliuered in certaine sermons in Oxford,…

A third note of difference may be this: Every child of §3God by the power of saving grace, doth hunger and thirst after all those means God hath ordained, or offers for his furtherance in the way to heaven, and for his comforting and confirming in a Christian course; and doth make a holy use of whatsoever is either publicly or privately laid upon him for his amendment: and therefore he continually profits and proceeds in sanctification by his word, his judgements and his mercies: by the exercise, observation and sense of which, he grows sensibly in heavenly knowledge, faith, humiliation, repentance, thankfulness, and all other spiritual graces. But the formal hypocrite doth so far take notice and regard of them, as they further his temporal happiness, and as his neglect of them, by consequent threateneth danger and overthrow to his outward worldly state. For the present perhaps, he is moved with the hearing of the word of God, with the terror of his judgements, while they lie with some extraordinary weight upon himself, or the whole land; and with the sweetness of his mercies, because they secure him in his prosperity. But these things sink not into his soul with the power of mortification, to the destroying of his sinful affections, and the shaking off of every known sin.

A third note of difference may be this: Euery child of §3God by the power of sauing grace, doth hunger and thirst after all those meanes God hath ordained, or offers for his furtherance in the way to heauen, and for his comforting and confirming in a Christian course; and doth make a holy vse of whatsoeuer is either publickly or priuately laid vpon him for his amendment: and therefore he continually profits and proceeds in sanctification by his word, his iudgements and his mercies: by the exercise, obseruation and sense of which, hee growes sensiblie in heauenly knowledge, faith, humiliation, repentance, thankfulnesse, and all other spirituall graces. But the formall hypocrite doth so farre take notice and regard of them, as they further his temporal happinesse, and as his neglect of them, by consequent threatneth danger and ouerthrow to his outward worldlie state. For the present perhaps, hee is mooued with the hearing of the word of God, with the terror of his iudgements, while they lie with some extraordinarie waight vpon himselfe, or the whole land; and with the sweetnesse of his mercies, because they secure him in his prosperitie. But these things sinke not into his soule with the power of mortification, to the destroying of his sinfull affections, and the shaking off of euery knowne sinne.