The difference between the spots of the godly and of the wicked preached

3. Doct. But now comes in the Third Point: It's true, the people of God have all their spots; I, but know, There's a great deal of difference between the spots of the godly, and the spots of the wicked.

3. Doct. BUt now comes in the Third Point: It's true, the people of God have all their spots; I, but know, There's a great deal of difference between the spots of the godly, and the spots of the wicked.

And this Scripture I chose for the handling of this point, to take away that vain plea that hardens the hearts of most men in their sin; Why it's true, we have sin, and who hath not? the best of all have their sins. I appeal to you, whether you do not know that this is the great hardening conceit of most people in the World? Thou hast thy sins, and the best have their sins; but there's a great deal of ⟨p. 28⟩difference between the sins of the one, and the sins of the other; you will see a great deal of difference, however, whatever thou sayest; Psal. 22. 18. sa••ih David, I have not wickedly departed from my God: David would not say but that he had sometimes departed from God; I, but I have not wickedly departed from him, saith David, I can appeal to God in that: There is still remaining in the Saints, corruptions; in their understandings there is some dimness, though there be light; But I may say of that, as in Isa. 11. The dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation; It shall not be such dimness; It's spoken there in case of affliction and misery: We may apply it thus, by way of allusion, in case of the remaining corruptions: There is in the understanding a dimness, but not like that that was before, and is in natural men: There is not that dimness of darkness in the weakest Man or Woman in the World that is converted, that hath the least natural parts as in the greatest learned Man or Woman in the World that is unconverted: And though, perhaps, a Child of God may have some security in his heart for a while, yet in