The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32…

1. IF you had not true Grace, God is still offering it, and ready to work it. 2. Where do you find in Scripture that none who have true Grace, do sin knowingly or Deliberately? Perhaps you will say in Heb. 10.24. If we sin wilfully after the knowledge of the Truth, there Remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but a fearful looking for of Judgement, and fire which shall devour the adversaries. Ans. But you must know that it is not every wilful sin which is there mentioned; but, as even now I told you, Unbelief is peculiarly called Sin in the New Testament: And the true meaning of the Text is, If we utterly renounce Christ by Infidelity, as not being the true Messiah, after we have known his Truth, then &c. Indeed, none sin more against knowledge then the Godly when they do sin: For they know more, for the most part, then others do. And Passion and Sensuality (the remnant of it which yet remaineth) will be working strongly in your very Deliberations against sin, and either perverting the Judgement to doubt whether it be a sin, or whether ⟨p. 467⟩there be any such danger in it? or whether it be not a very little sin? Or else blinding it, that it cannot see the Arguments against the sin in their full vigour: Or at least, prepossessing the Heart and Delight, and so hindering our Reasons against sin, from going down to the Heart and working on the Will, and so from Commanding the Actions of the Body. This may befall a godly man And moreover, God may withdraw his Grace, as he did from Peter and David in their sin: and then our Considerations will work but faintly, and sensuality and sinful Passion will work effectually. It is scarce Possible, I think, that such a man as David could be so long about so horrid a sin, and after contrive the murder of Uriah▪ and all this without deliberation, or any reasonings in himself to the contrary.

1. IF you had not true Grace, God is still offering it, and ready to work it. 2. Where do you finde in Scripture that none who have true Grace, do sin knowingly or Deliberately? Perhaps you will say in Heb. 10.24. If we sin willfully after the knowledge of the Truth, there Remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but a fearful looking for of Judgement, and fire which shall devour the adversaries. Ans. But you must know that it is not every wilful sin which is there mentioned; but, as even now I told you, Ʋnbelief is peculiarly called Sin in the New Testament: And the true meaning of the Text is, If we utterly renounce Christ by Infidelity, as not being the true Messiah, after we have known his Truth, then &c. Indeed, none sin more against knowledge then the Godly when they do sin: For they know more, for the most part, then others do. And Passion and Sensuality (the remnant of it which yet remaineth) will be working strongly in your very Deliberations against sin, and either perverting the Judgement to doubt whether it be a sin, or whether