Sermons preached

I answer, You must take in all. Those who are in Christ, that walk not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit, they have the Salt of the Covenant. But if you can suppose a justified Person to live after the Flesh, you may suppose also a justified Person shall be condemned. Eternal Death may be considered two ways, either as to the Merit, or as to the Event. As to the Merit, as an Evil which God hath appointed to be the Fruit of Sin; or as to the Event, an Evil that will certainly befall us. A justified Person, one that is really so, may, must fear it in the first Sense. There is such a Connection between living in Sin, and Eternal Punishment, that he ought to represent the Danger to his Soul of living willingly and allowedly in his Sins, that he may eschew it. For this is nothing but a holy making use of the Threatenings, or considering the Merit of Sin. But as to the actual Event, and perplexing Trouble, that ariseth from the apprehension of it; if his Sincerity be clear and unquestionable, he must not fear it.

I answer, You must take in all. Those who are in Christ, that walk not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit, they have the Salt of the Covenant. But if you can suppose a justified Person to live after the Flesh, you may suppose also a justified Person shall be condemned. Eternal Death may be considered two ways, either as to the Merit, or as to the Event. As to the Merit, as an Evil which God hath appointed to be the Fruit of Sin; or as to the Event, an Evil that will certainly befall us. A justified Person, one that is really so, may, must fear it in the first Sence. There is such a Connection between living in Sin, and Eternal Punishment, that he ought to represent the Danger to his Soul of living willingly and allowedly in his Sins, that he may eschew it. For this is nothing but a holy making use of the Threatnings, or considering the Merit of Sin. But as to the actual Event, and perplexing Trouble, that ariseth from the apprehension of it; if his Sincerity be clear and unquestionable, he must not fear it.

Now to make Application.