The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

3. He hath no sin which is inconsistent with the true Love of God, in the predominant habit: It never turneth his heart to another End, or Happiness, or Master.

4. Therefore it is more a sin of passion, than of settled interest and choice. He is more liable to a hasty passion, or word, or unruly thoughts, than to any prevalent covetousness or ambition, ⟨p. 427⟩or any sin which is a possessing of the heart instead of God, 1 John 2.15. James 3.2. Though some remainders of these are in him, they prevail not so far as sudden passions.

5. There are some sins which are more easily in the power of the will, so that a man that is but truly willing, may forbear them; as a drunkard may pass by the Tavern or Ale-house, or forbear to touch the cup; and the fornicator to come near, or commit the sin, if they be truly willing: But there be other sins which a man can hardly forbear though he be willing; because they are the sins of those faculties over which the will hath not a despotical power: As a man may be truly willing to have no sluggishness, heaviness, sleepiness at prayer, no forgetfulness, no wandering thoughts, no inordinate appetite or lust at all stirring in him, no sudden passions of anger, grief or fear; he may be willing to love God perfectly; to fear him and obey him perfectly, but cannot. These latter are the ordinary infirmities of the godly: The former sort are, if at all, his extraordinary falls,