The application of redemption

And therefore this Evidence must needs come from an immediate revelation from Heaven; for there is no appearance no manifestation of it on Earth, either in our hearts or lives in what we have or do; and therefore then our good estate may be sure unto us by Christ, when we have nothing but sin, and do nothing but commit sin.

And hence because both graces and gracious actions may be wanting in this union to Christ, (because separable from it) therefore the want of them cannot infer the denial of a good estate, nor the presence of them conclude the certainty of a good estate; because they are not proper and peculiar to such a condition, for then they could not be severed from it, which they may.

And hence because both graces and gracious actions may be wanting in this union to Christ, (because separable from it) thererefore the want of them cannot infer the deniall of a good estate, nor the presence of them conclude the certainty of a good estate; because they are not proper and peculiar to such a condition, for then they could not be severed from it, which they may.

And thus, this one Delusion like an Egyptian fog, darkens the whole Heavens, even the bright beams of the Sun of the Gospel, and the everlasting Covenant of Gods free grace; cuts the sinews of sincerity, and eats out the blood and spirits of the power nd presence and life of Grace; and under a pretence of advancing ⟨p. 160⟩Christ and Free Grace, destroys his Kingdom, and frustrates the coming of Christ into the World: For he came for this end, 1 John, 3. 8. To destroy the Works of the Devil; the Apostle concludes it, verse 10. as a proof beyond all question or exception, the child of the Devil is manifest in this, He that hates his brother, and works unrighteousness, is the Child of the Devil, and yet upon this grant, and according to this ground, a man may do both these, and yet be united unto Christ, and so be blessed of him.