Secondly, As to the Hope and Comfort that followeth this Profession: An Inclination to that which is good: I suppose without that, there can be no true Comfort, 'till we should submit to the Conditions of the Gospel-law, Matth. 5.28, 29, 30. There Temporaries are defective, all therefore see it and know it when they are serious and considerative, and their mistakes and misconceits are blown away by Death and Judgment; now the conditions are Believing, Repenting and Gospel-walking: Now their Faith will not yield Comfort, Gal. 5.6. Neither Circumcision nor Uncircumcision availeth any thing, but Faith that worketh by love: Not their Repenting, not a little sorrow for sin past, 'till carnal Distempers are mortified, 2 Cor. 7.10. So for Gospel-walking, not a loose owning of Christ, Mat. 7.21. 'till there be a full Obedience to his Law, putting it in practice with an upright Heart, which is not consistent with allowed failings: A man may profess himself a Christian, yet if he do not his Fathers Will, he may come short.
Secondly, As to the Hope and Comfort that followeth this Profession: An Inclination to that which is good: I suppose without that, there can be no true Comfort, 'till we should submit to the Conditions of the Gospel-law, Matth. 5.28, 29, 30. There Temporaries are defective, all therefore see it and know it when they are serious and considerative, and their mistakes and misconceits are blown away by Death and Judgment; now the conditions are Believing, Repenting and Gospel-walking: Now their Faith will not yield Comfort, Gal. 5.6. Neither Circumcision nor Vncircumcision availeth any thing, but Faith that worketh by love: Not their Repenting, not a little sorrow for sin past, 'till carnal Distempers are mortified, 2 Cor. 7.10. So for Gospel-walking, not a loose owning of Christ, Mat. 7.21. 'till there be a full Obedience to his Law, putting it in practice with an upright Heart, which is not consistent with allowed failings: A man may profess himself a Christian, yet if he do not his Fathers Will, he may come short.
