An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

But when shall the Ministers of the Gospel persuade in this matter? How long will it be ere you put a difference between doing a duty, and trusting in a duty, between presence at an Ordinance, and enjoying Christ himself in that Ordinance. And thus far men destitute of true solid grace, may yet have some external apparent righteousness, and other spiritual objects to rest upon.

But when shall the Ministers of the Gospel perswade in this matter? How long will it be ere you put a difference between doing a duty, and trusting in a duty, between presence at an Ordinance, and enjoying Christ himself in that Ordinance. And thus farre men destitute of true solid grace, may yet have some external apparent righteousness, and other spiritual objects to rest upon.

Let us in the next place consider, Wherein a godly man, yea an eminent Paul ⟨p. 309⟩may become guilty of trusting in himself. For seeing God hath taken that way for our justification, which is wholly to take us off our selves; and ¹the Gospel-grace is therefore exalted, that we may be debased; how can it come about that the dregs of this sin should still be polluting the most holy man? But

Let us in the next place consider, Wherein a godly man, yea an eminent Paul ⟨p. 309⟩may become guilty of trusting in himself. For seeing God hath taken that way for our justification, which is wholly to take us off our selves; and ¹the Gospel-grace is therefore exalted, that we may be debased; how can it come about that the dregs of this sinne should still be polluting the most holy man? But

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