A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

I answer;

1. It must be done in Purpose and Resolution. In Conversation there is an entire surrender of the Soul to God: to reserve any Sin, is to part stakes between Him and Satan, not to leave Sin, but to choose it. But now in Vow and Purpose we must forsake every Sin; Psal. 119.57. I have said, that I would keep thy Word. And this Purpose must be entire, without Exception and Reservation; so that if they sin, it is besides their purpose.

1. It must be done in Purpose and Resolution. In Conversation there is an intire surrender of the Soul to God: to reserve any Sin, is to part stakes between Him and Satan, not to leave Sin, but to chuse it. But now in Vow and Purpose we must forsake every Sin; Psal. 119.57. I have said, that I would keep thy Word. And this Purpose must be intire, without Exception and Reservation; so that if they sin, it is besides their purpose.

2. There must be a serious Inclination of the Will against it. Carnal Men will profess a Purpose and saint Resolution; but there is no Principle of Grace to bear it, no Bent of the Will against it. Psal. 109.104. I hate every false Way. A Child of God doth not escape every false Way, but he hateth it, the Inclination of the New Nature is against it; and therefore Sin is not committed without Resistance, there are Dislikes and Denials in the renewed part; there is a fear of Sin beforehand, and a present striving against it, and an after-grief for it: The Consent is extorted by the Violence of a Temptation, and retracted by Remorse; for Remorse is as the withdrawing of the Consent, so that it is besides the Inclination of the Will.