Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

To be sure, no Act of Grace, no Gospel-privilege or Advantage, present or to come, can take away, or lessen our Obligation to become holy; for this being the Law of our Creation, whilst we are God's Creatures, so made, so endued; that is, whilst we have our beings, and we are at all: we carry our bonds about with us, which we may not break without sinning against the Law of our Creation, which it is impossible that any thing or matter in the Gospel (which comes after it) should disannul.

To be sure, no Act of Grace, no Gospel-priviledge or Advantage, present or to come, can take away, or lessen our Obligation to become holy; for this being the Law of our Creation, whilst we are God's Creatures, so made, so endued; that is, whilst we have our beings, and we are at all: we carry our bonds about with us, which we may not break without sinning against the Law of our Creation, which it is impossible that any thing or matter in the Gospel (which comes after it) should disanull.

But if Holiness be so absolutely necessary to Life and Happiness; Object. and that under the Gospel, to which men flee to escape the condemnation of the Law, who then can be saved?

The Apostles propounded that Question unto our Saviour upon the Observation our Saviour had made (the rich Young man having departed from him) of the very great difficulty in the Salvation of a Rich man. 'Tis observable, that the Disciples do not say, What rich man can then be saved? ¹But being conscious that every Condition had its temptations, as a rich man had his, so they had theirs, they therefore propound the question more generally. To which, so far as my Subject leads me, I answer,

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