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5. Yet here you must carefully distinguish of Duties: For God hath made some to be secondary parts of the condition of the Covenant, and so of flat necessity for the continuance of our Justification, and for the attaining of Glorification: Such are confessing Christ before men when we are called to it; confessing sin; Praying; showing Mercy to the poor; forgiving wrongs; hearing and yielding to Gods Word, &c. still supposing that there be opportunity and necessaries for the performance of these. But some d• ties there are that God hath not laid so great a stress or necessity on: though yet the w•• full resolved omission in ordinary, of any known duty, is contrary to the nature of true Obedience.

5. Yet here you must carefully distinguish of Duties: For God hath made some to be secondary parts of the condition of the Covenant, and so of flat necessity for the continuance of our Justification, and for the attaining of Glorification: Such are confessing Christ before men when we are called to it; confessing sin; Praying; shewing Mercy to the poor; forgiving wrongs; hearing and yielding to Gods Word, &c. still supposing that there be opportunity and necessaries for the performance of these. But some d• ties there are that God hath not laid so great a stress or necessity on: though yet the w•• full resolved omission in ordinary, of any known duty, is contrary to the nature of true Obedience.

Also, the Case may much differ with several persons, places and seasons, concerning Duty: that may be a Duty to one man that i• not to another; and in one place, which is not in another; and at one season, which is not at another. And that may be a greater duty, and of indispensable necessity to one, which to another is not so great. It may stand with true Grace, to omit that duty which men know not to be a duty, or not to be so to ⟨p. 102⟩