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2. Are you heartily willing to forsake your sins, and overcome the things of which you so complain? or are you not? If you are not, why do you complain of them? and why will you not consent to let them go? and use Gods means to overcome ⟨p. 369⟩them? If you are willing, then they are but your pardoned infirmities; For that's the difference between infirmities and reigning sins: [Whatsoever sin consisteth with a greater Habitual willingness to avoid that and all other sin, then to keep them, is but an Infirmity] for it stands with present saving grace, and is always Habitually or virtually repented of, and actually, when grace, by knowledge and consideration, hath opportunity and advantage to produce the act.

2. Are you heartily willing to forsake your sins, and overcome the things of which you so complain? or are you not? If you are not, why do you complain of them? and why will you not consent to let them go? and use Gods means to overcome ⟨p. 369⟩them? If you are willing, then they are but your pardoned infirmities; For thats the difference between infirmities and reigning sins: [Whatsoever sin consisteth with a greater Habitual willingness to avoid that and all other sin, then to keep them, is but an Infirmity] for it stands with present saving grace, and is always Habitually or virtually repented of, and actually, when grace, by knowledge and consideration, hath opportunity and advantage to produce the act.

3. And when once you are truly engrafted into Christ, he is your worthiness, and your righteousness, and the treasury of your souls; and what you want in your own possession, you have in his hands; and as what you have is but his gift, so what you want he is able and ready to supply. Look not too much to your selves, as if your safety and happiness were principally in your own hand. God hath given us eternal life, ¹and this life is in his son. He that hath the son, hath life,