An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…

but if we walk in the light, as God is in the light; then have we fellowship one with another, 1 Joh. 1.5, 6, 7. This doctrine doth not only take away the necessity of Holiness, in order to our Union to Christ; but destroys the necessary obligations to Holiness and Obedience for the suture, and so thrusts Holiness quite out of the Christian Religion: Our Union to Christ is perfected, while we are unholy; and when ⟨p. 502⟩we are united to Christ, there is less need of Holiness than before: For now the merit of Christs death is imputed to us, to remove the guilt and punishment of sin; and his actual obedience is imputed to us, to make us righteous, and to give us an actual right to glory: So that if men will obey Christ out of a principle of good nature and thank fullness, they may, but according to this notion there is no necessity of it, because they are delivered from wrath, and have a right to eternal life without it.

but if we walk in the light, as God is in the light; then have we fellowship one with another, 1 Joh. 1.5, 6, 7. This doctrine doth not only take away the necessity of Holiness, in order to our Ʋnion to Christ; but destroys the necessary obligations to Holiness and Obedience for the suture, and so thrusts Holiness quite out of the Christian Religion: Our Ʋnion to Christ is perfected, while we are unholy; and when ⟨p. 502⟩we are united to Christ, there is less need of Holiness than before: For now the merit of Christs death is imputed to us, to remove the guilt and punishment of sin; and his actual obedience is imputed to us, to make us righteous, and to give us an actual right to glory: So that if men will obey Christ out of a principle of good nature and thank fulness, they may, but according to this notion there is no necessity of it, because they are delivered from wrath, and have a right to eternal life without it.