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3. A man may be bonus ethicus, and yet not bonus Theologus, i. e. a well cariaged man outwardly, expressing both the sense and practise of religion in his outward demeanour: And yet not be a a sincere hearted Christian: So a man may be a member of a congregation, and behave himself outwardly beyond exception, •nd yet want, both an upright mind, and intention sin•ere: So that though they be rejected of God without •hose, yet the fault lies not in the outward action, but in the inward & spiritual work, which God approves, and takes his complacency in, yet he looks upon these, and loves them so far as they be suitable to their rule, as he did in the young man, Mark 10.21.

3. A man may be bonus ethicus, and yet not bonus Theologus, i. e. a well cariaged man outwardly, expres•ing both the sense and practise of religion in his outward demeanor: And yet not be a a sincere hearted Christian: So a man may be a member of a congrega•ion, and behave himself outwardly beyond exception, •nd yet want, both an upright mynd, and intention sin•ere: So that though they be rejected of God without •hose, yet the fault lyes not in the outward action, but in the inward & spirituall work, which God approves, and takes his complacency in, yet he looks upon these, and loves them so farr as they be sutable to their rule, as he did in the young man, Mark 10.21.

At a word: an action may be done by the rule of Ethics, or the rule of outward ecclesiastical policy and church discipline appointed by Christ: Or lastly by an inward spiritual principle of grace: The two former, may be true without the last, though a mans sins in separating the last from the first, because though the first be good in their kind, yet they are not sufficient: the former therefore are to be continued, and the sin in the last to be reformed: Hence the Prophet