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Fourthly and lastly, Restraining and sanctifying Grace differ in the motives and arguments, that they make use of for the resisting of sin; there are two general Topics or common places, whence all arguments against sin are drawn, and those are the Law and the Gospel, both of these administer such weapons, that if rightly used, are very effectual for the beating down of sin, and commonly restraining Grace useth those only that are borrowed from the Law; it urgeth the command, it thunders the curse, it brandisheth the sword of Justice, and makes reports of nothing but Hell and eternal Damnation, and such like arguments that scare Men from the committing of their sins, though still they love them; now sanctifying Grace though it also makes a most profitable use of ⟨p. 296⟩these very arguments, yet it chiefly useth more mild and more ingenious motives drawn from the love of God, from the Death of Christ, from the comforts of the Holy Ghost, and these though they strike softer, yet they wound deeper; now hereby also you may give a guess, whether your abstaining from sin, be merely from restraining or from sanctifying Grace, observe what weapons you use? What considerations do over-awe your hearts? Are they such as are drawn only from the Law, and the sad reflections of the end and issue of sin? That it brings Shame, and Death, and Hell; must you run down to Hell every time a temptation comes to fetch arguments thence to oppose against your corruptions? can you no where else quench the fiery Darts of the Devil, unless it be in that Lake of Fire? if this be all (though this too is well) yet know if it be all, this is no more than what restraint and common Grace may perform; it is the proper character of restraining Grace, to keep Men back from the commission of sin only by dread and fear of punishment; but now sanctifying Grace, that especially betakes ⟨p. 297⟩it self to Gospel Arguments, and considers how disingenuous it is to sin against a reconciled and a gracious Father, against a crucified and a bleeding Saviour, against a patient and long suffering Spirit, and heaps up many such like ingenious arguments that work kindly upon the heart;

Fourthly and lastly, Restraining and sanctifying Grace differ in the motives and arguments, that they make use of for the resisting of sin; there are two general Topicks or common places, whence all arguments against sin are drawn, and those are the Law and the Gospel, both of these administer such weapons, that if rightly used, are very effectual for the beating down of sin, and commonly restraining Grace useth those only that are borrowed from the Law; it urgeth the command, it thunders the curse, it brandisheth the sword of Justice, and makes reports of nothing but Hell and eternal Damnation, and such like arguments that scare Men from the committing of their sins, though still they love them; now sanctifying Grace though it also makes a most profitable use of