Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

6. So they that profess that they will venture or lose their Interest in Heaven, rather than forsake their sins, till they repent manifestly of this, are to be presumed to be ungodly.

7. So they that live constantly in the commission of gross sins, though they profess Repentance, and promise Reformation, yet have over and over broke their promises, and still continue in the sin, such mens words are not any more to be credited (else all Discipline may be eluded) till they actually reform: And though we cannot certainly tell just how much gross sin may stand with Grace: yet because we must judge by probable evidence, and the Apostle telleth us that such shall not inherit the Kingdom of God, and that if we live after the Flesh we shall die, we must presume that men are what they appear to be. Had we such a man as Solomon in his sin to deal with, we ought to use him as an ungodly man, I think. So those that have lately committed scandalous Notorious sin, and will not on sufficient persuasion manifest any satisfactory repentance for it: we must presume them ungodly till they will manifest repentance: For we know, except they repent they shall perish; and an undiscovered repentance is to us as none. And our Divines at Dort conclude, that though a Godly man lose not his Justification by gross sinning, yet he contracts such an incapacity of coming to heaven in that state that must be removed by repentance, or else he could not be saved.

7. So they that live constantly in the commission of gross sins, though they profess Repentance, and promise Reformation, yet have over and over broke their promises, and still continue in the sin, such mens words are not any more to be credited (else all Discipline may be eluded) till they actually reform: And though we cannot certainly tell just how much gross sin may stand with Grace: yet because we must judge by probable evidence, and the Apostle telleth us that such shall not inherite the Kingdom of God, and that if we live after the Flesh we shall die, we must presume that men are what they appear to be. Had we such a man as Solomon in his sin to deal with, we ought to use him as an ungodl• man, I think. So those that have lately committed scandalous Notorious sin, and will not on sufficient perswasion manifest any satisfactory repentance for it: we must presume them ungodly till they will manifest repentance: For we know, except they repent they shall perish; and an undiscovered repentance is to us as none. And our Divines at Dort conclude, that though a Godly man lose not his Justification by gross sinning, yet he contracts such an incapacity of coming to heaven in that state that must be removed by repentance, or else he could not be saved.