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9. All the failings of our Duties are pardoned, and they Accepted in Christ; and therefore we may Rejoice in them.

10. Our Duties have a double tendency to our salvation: 1. As the Condition to which God hath promised it as the Crown and Reward (in a hundred texts of Scripture;) And may we not Comfort our selves in that which God promiseth Heaven to? 2. As a Natural means to our obedience, and further perfection (as Watchfulness, Meditation, &c. tend to destroy sin:) as Paul saith to Timothy, Take heed to thy self and to thy Doctrine, and in so doing thou shalt both save thy self and them that hear the•, 1 Tim. 4.16. And may we not take Comfort in that which tends to save our own and our brethren's souls?

10. Our Duties have a double tendency to our salvation: 1. As the Condition to which God hath promised it as the Crown and Reward (in a hundred texts of Scripture;) And may we not Comfort our selves in that which God promiseth Heaven to? 2. As a Natural means to our obedience, and further perfection (as Watchfulness, Meditation, &c. tend to destroy sin:) as Paul saith to Timothy, Take heed to thy self and to thy Doctrine, and in so doing thou shalt both save thy self and them that hear the•, 1 Tim. 4.16. And may we not take Comfort in that which tends to save our own and our brethrens souls?

11. We shall be Judged according to our Works: therefore we must judge our selves according to our Works; and so must judge our state good or bad according to our works: for can man judge by a righter way then God will? At least is it not lawful for man to judge as God doth?