The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…

Lastly, If the Spirit of God do only mortify, as to our feeling, and not to Gods sight, then when the soul departs into glory, all that inherent purity, must only be declaratively also; but in heaven ⟨p. 59⟩we are made holy perfectly in Gods sight, and that without any imputed righteousness of Christ, though Christ did purchase and obtain that for us. Now what the Spirit of God doth finish and consummate upon the souls dissolution, he had begun even in this life.

Lastly, If the Spirit of God do only mortifie, as to our feeling, and not to Gods sight, then when the soul departs into glory, all that inherent purity, must only be declaratively also; but in heaven ⟨p. 59⟩we are made holy perfectly in Gods sight, and that without any imputed righteousnesse of Christ, though Christ did purchase and obtain that for us. Now what the Spirit of God doth finish and consummate upon the souls dissolution, he had begun even in this life.

A third sort of Arguments is from those places which commend repentance, humiliation, and godly sorrow for sin;¹ for if God takes no notice of our sin, be not offended at it, we may indeed be sorrowful for sin because of men, but not because of God▪ ²Shall I be sorrowful because God is offended when he is not offended? shall I weep because God is angry when he is not angry? If you ask Peter why he weeps bitterly, will he not say, Because he offended God? If you ask the Corinthians, why they are so deeply humbled, will not they say, because by their sins they provoked God to bring temporal calamities upon them? so that the poisonous nature of this Doctrine, appeareth in nothing more then in this, it taketh away all grounds of humiliation and repentance of sin in those that do believe. Therefore mark it, He that saith there is no sin in the Church of God now (which is their express opinion) he must likewise say, There is no godly sorrow in the Church of God now. For what is the reason there can be no godly sorrow in heaven, there was none in the state of innocency, but because there was no sin there? and it must be thus now in the Church of God. This error eateth into the vitals of godliness, therefore beware of it. Say, I will have no such free grace, as shall take away godly sorrow; Remember the gracious Promise,