A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

¹First, Sanctifying Grace keeps the Soul from Sin by destroying of it, but Restraining Grace keeps the Soul from Sin only by imprisoning of it. God many times shuts up the sins of those in Prison, whom notwithstanding he will at last shut up in Hell: It is sanctifying Grace alone that can do execution upon them; restraining grace may debar them of their liberty, but it is only Sanctifying Grace can deprive them of their Life. There may appear but little difference betwixt the Conversation of a Child of God, whom Special Grace doth Sanctify, and one in a state of Nature whom common Grace doth only Restrain; doth the one walk blamelessly without offence, doth he avoid the grosser Pollutions of the World, so doth the other; a Star is not more like a Star, than these Meteors may be like them: But now here lies the difference, Restraining Grace only ties the Hands, but Sanctifying Grace stabs the old Man to the Heart: It is one thing to bind a Thief to a Tree, and another thing to Nail him fast to ⟨p. 287⟩the Cross. Restraining Grace only binds Corruption fast that it cannot stir, not outwardly, but still it hath as much strength as ever: But now Sanctifying Grace that Crucifies it, and Nails it to the Cross of Christ where it weakens and languisheth and hangs a dying Body of Death. The Earth is as dry and hard in a frosty Winter as it is in a parching Summer, yet there's a great deal of difference in the cause of it, in Summer the Sun dries up the moisture, and in Winter the Frost binds it in: Truly Restraining and Sanctifying Grace are for all the World like Frost and Sun; the ways of those who have only a Restraint laid upon them, may be altogether as fair and clean, as the ways of those that are Sanctified are, but there's a great difference in the cause, Sanctifying Grace dries up the Filth and Corruption in the Heart of the one, but Restraining Grace only freezeth in and binds up the Filth and Corruption of the other.

¹First, Sanctifying Grace keeps the Soul from Sin by destroying of it, but Restraining Grace keeps the Soul from Sin only by imprisoning of it. God many times shuts up the sins of those in Prison, whom notwithstanding he will at last shut up in Hell: It is sanctifying Grace alone that can do execution upon them; restraining grace may debar them of their liberty, but it is only Sanctifying Grace can deprive them of their Life. There may appear but little difference betwixt the Conversation of a Child of God, whom Special Grace doth Sanctifie, and one in a state of Nature whom common Grace doth only Restrain; doth the one walk blamelessly without offence, doth he avoid the grosser Pollutions of the World, so doth the other; a Star is not more like a Star, than these Meteors may be like them: But now here lies the difference, Restraining Grace only ties the Hands, but Sanctifying Grace stabs the old Man to the Heart: It is one thing to bind a Thief to a Tree, and another thing to Nail him fast to