The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…

1. But our new Work-mongers assert, That our Justification or Right to Life, dependeth wholly upon our Obedience (to the Gospel as a Law) as the Condition to which it is promised: Therefore (as one observes) it puts us into a Condition of Life imperfect, and subject to change, as Obedience it ⟨p. 81⟩self is, and that we are not perfectly Justified till our Obedience is perfected: Thus Mr. Clark of High-Wickham, and others.¹ Take Mr. Clark's Words, viz. Our Justification at present, while we are in this World, is but Partial, Imperfect, and Incomplete.

1. But our new Work-mongers assert, That our Justification or Right to Life, dependeth wholly upon our Obedience (to the Gospel as a Law) as the Condition to which it is promised: Therefore (as one observes) it puts us into a Condition of Life imperfect, and subject to change, as Obedience it ⟨p. 81⟩self is, and that we are not perfectly Justified till our Obedience is perfected: Thus Mr. Clark of High-Wickham, and others.¹ Take Mr. Clark's Words, viz. Our Justification at present, while we are in this World, is but Partial, Imperfect, and Incompleat.

1. 1Clark's Script. Justific. p. 18.

Ans. Now, say I, this confounds Justification, with Sanctification; and as I have told him,¹ then it also follows that Believers are partly justified, and partly condemned, i. e. we are not acquitted from the guilt of all Sin, whilst in this World, and so Christ's Dove is not Undefiled: Lord, what an Age do we live in!