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,…

2. The quality of them, whereby they may be differenced from the sins of reprobates.

For the former. There is no sin (except that against the holy Ghost) which a justified person, being left to himself, may not fall into, even such sins, that moral men, by the help of a natural conscience only would readily abhor. Thus David with deliberation and consent falls into adultery and murder, sins condemned by Natures Statute-Law: You have Aaron guilty of Idolatry: Josephs brethren the Patriarchs, as much as lieth in them murdering Joseph, and when they have cast him away into the pit, they sit down to eat, which implieth their wonderful security: and we read not of their Repentance, till many years after, being awakened thereunto by Joseph. Samson, he was like one of the Roman Emperors, a compound of vices and virtues, insomuch that doubt might have been made of his godliness, had not the Scripture put him in the Catalogue of Saints. Peter, although it was a passion of fear that caused his sin, yet his sin was very dreadful, to lie, swear, and curse, in the denying of Christ. This was such a sin that Peter thought it not possible he should fall into it. For first at the maids accusation, by comparing of the Evangelists together, he doth not only basely deny himself to be Peter, but addeth, He knew not Christ, yea he knew not what she said: an expression which we use about a thing that we are in the highest manner ignorant of; and this he doth before all them that stood by. In the next place after a little while (which as Maldonat computes, must be at least three hours) he denieth Christ again: we might have thought that Peters heart might have troubled him in that space, but in stead of repentance he aggravates his crime, with an oath he denied himself to be Peter; Here was lying against his own conscience, accompanied with perfidiousness against Christ:

For the former. There is no sinne (except that against the holy Ghost) which a justified person, being left to himself, may not fall into, even such sins, that moral men, by the help of a natural conscience only would readily abhor. Thus David with deliberation and consent fals into adultery and murder, sins condemned by Natures Statute-Law: You have Aaron guilty of Idolatry: Josephs brethren the Patriarchs, as much as lieth in them murdering Joseph, and when they have cast him away into the pit, they sit down to eat, which implieth their wonderful security: and we reade not of their Repentance, till many years after, being awakened thereunto by Joseph. Samson, he was like one of the Roman Emperors, a compound of vices and virtues, insomuch that doubt might have been made of his godliness, had not the Scripture put him in the Catalogue of Saints. Peter, although it was a passion of fear that caused his sinne, yet his sinne was very dreadful, to lie, swear, and curse, in the denying of Christ. This was such a sinne that Peter thought it not possible he should fall into it. For first at the maids accusation, by comparing of the Evangelists together, he doth not only basely deny himself to be Peter, but addeth, He knew not Christ, yea he knew not what she said: an expression which we use about a thing that we are in the highest manner ignorant of; and this he doth before all them that stood by. In the next place after a little while (which as Maldonat computes, must be at least three hours) he denieth Christ again: we might have thought that Peters heart might have troubled him in that space, but in stead of repentance he aggravates his crime, with an oath he denied himself to be Peter; Here was lying against his own conscience, accompanied with perfidiousness against Christ: