A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

Again, It is so ordered by Divine Wisdom, as strictly to require, to begin, excite, and encourage the utmost diligence of Believers in a compliance with its efficacy unto the same End. What Christ did for us, he did without us, without our aid or concurrence. As God made us without our selves, so Christ redeemed us; but what he doth in us, he doth also by us; what he works in a way of Grace, we work in a way of Duty. And our Duty herein, consists as in the continual exercise of all gracious Habits, renewing, changing, and transforming the Soul into the Likeness of Christ (for he which hopes to see him, purifieth himself as he is pure) so also in universal, permanent, uninterrupted Mortification unto the end, whereof we shall speak afterwards. This also renders the Work more Mysterious and difficult. The improvement of Afflictions unto the same end, is a principal part of the Wisdom of Faith; without which they can be of no spiritual Use unto the Souls of men.

This Notion of the Defilement of Sin, and that of the Necessity of its purification, were retained in the Church of Rome; for they could not be lost, without not only a rejection of the Scripture, but the stifling of natural conceptions about them, which are indelibly fixed in the Consciences of men. But Spiritual Light into the Glory of the thing it self, or the mystical Purification of Sin, with an experience of the power and efficacy of the Blood of Christ, as applied unto the Consciences of Believers unto that end, by the holy Ghost, were lost amongst them. In vain shall we seek for any thing of this Nature, either in their Doctrine, or their Practice.

This Notion of the Defilement of Sin, and that of the Necessity of its purification, were retained in the Church of Rome; for they could not be lost, without not only a rejection of the Scripture, but the stiffling of natural conceptions about them, which are indelibly fixed in the Consciences of men. But Spiritual Light into the Glory of the thing it self, or the mystical Purification of Sin, with an experience of the power and efficacy of the Blood of Christ, as applied unto the Consciences of Believers unto that end, by the holy Ghost, were lost amongst them. In vain shall we seek for any thing of this Nature, either in their Doctrine, or their Practice.