Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

2. His judgment therefore must needs be dubious or wrong whereby he is to compare things that differ or agree together. If God leave him or give him up to himself, the Prophet is a fool, and the Spiritual Man is mad, Hos. 9.7. so as he will put darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, call good evil and evil good, Isa. 5.20. Conscience, the Souls taster, and common sense is so vitiated and defiled, Tit. 1.15. that he hath no true judgment or discretion, having not his senses exercised to discern between good and evil, Heb. 5.14.

3. His conclusions therefore must needs be distorted from these premises, and the Errors in the first and second concoction are not corrected and amended by the third; he who cannot make one strait step can never take three together. All the Errors and Fallacies in the World are but the products of his Ratiocinations, viz. I can go to the Tavern or Exchange, I find therefore I can Repent and Believe when I will; whereas these are actions of another Life and Nature, which he was never born to, unless Regenerated by the Spirit of God; To Repent and Believe are God's gift, Acts 5.31. His work in us, John 6.65. and Ephes. 2.8. Though for this very Doctrine many of his ignoranter Disciples went back and walked no more with him, John 6.66. And so Men jog on in their sensuality, presumptuously, as if there was something in the pleasures of sin, which was sweeter and dearer to them than God or Heaven; and when they have no more strength to serve their Lusts, nor any thing else to do but to die, they can in one quarter of an hour make their peace with God, (as one of that herd said to me, who soon after drawing Water out of his own Well, and being Drunk, was by the weight of the Bucket drawn into the Well and drowned). Another saith, I may sin because Grace aboundeth, this is a most disingenuous and unnatural argument; I may hate God and my Saviour, because he hath so loved me; when holy Herbert said, Let me not Love thee, if I love thee not; love being stronger than Death or Hell, in the Hearts of Gods beloved ones. So without holiness none shall see God, therefore we must be justified by our Evangelical Obedience and Righteousness, whereas this is only a concomitant for the cause; for God pronounceth and declareth none to be Righteous, but such as are Righteous; now there is none Righteous, no not one,