Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

But be not mistaken, as if some sorry wishes, and faint endeavours after Holiness were sufficient. Do men pursue so coldly and faintly things which they value? especially if it be for their lives? therefore they shall be your Judges: But having exceeded in the foregoing Particulars, (like those Children that come first have usually the biggest portion) I must hasten to the fourth and last,¹ and be brief in it. viz.

1. 1Particular.

¹(4.) This Grace of the Gospel, to wit, our Justification through the Name and Merit of Jesus Christ, is the strongest Motive towards our departing from Iniquity.

¹(4.) This Grace of the Gospel, to wit, our Justification thrô the Name and Merit of Jesus Christ, is the strongest Motive towards our departing from Iniquity.

1. 1Free Pardon the best Motive to become holy.

Though departing from Iniquity is in its self very good and necessary, yet the Motive for such our departing does very much vary it. Our Saviour taxeth the Scribes and Pharisees, that they did all their works to be seen of men, ¹which was as a Fly in the Box of their precious Ointments; any good Action ought to consist (ex integris causis) of good Causes in every respect. If the Principle out of which it flows, or End to which it tends be not good, the whole work is marred, it cannot be a good work. Our business at present, is to enquire about the End which we propound in our Obedience, in which,