Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

Secondly, All unknown actual sins are not obstacles to resignation, and so are not obstacles to faith. Who can understand his errors? Psal. 19.12. who so knowing as to know his intellectual errors? It hath been observed by some Papists, that there are above 200 errors in the Commentaries of Cardinal Cajetan, ¹in the Master of the sentences, whom the Papists extol as more worth then one hundred Luthers, two hundred Melanctons, three hundred Bullingers, four hundred Martyrs, five hundred Calvins, they have yet noted more then twenty erroneous Articles, unto which they add this, hic Magister non tenetur; ⟨p. 157⟩who so holy as to understand his practical errors? no man ever searched the gulf of corruption in his own heart to the bottom, no man ever fully measured the breadth of the pure Law; there are in the best relics of self-love which cover a multitude of sins, blinds of custom, which hinder the sight of sin; what with carnal profits which blow dust into our eyes, and what with carnal pleasures, which, because brutish and bestial, hinder reflection; there is a great deal of sin unseen to us, which is plain to the pure eyes of God. On the other side, where unknown sins are obstacles to resignation, they are also obstacles to faith; of which I shall give some instances. Some unknown sins are therefore unknown because they arise out of an Abyss of darkness, out of a gross ignorance of fundamentals in the heart, and so in respect of their origin are inconsistent with faith, whose origin is light, such ignorant ones cannot resign; sin to them, because unknown, is no burden; holiness to them, because unknown, is no beauty; Christ and grace to them, because unknown, are no attractives; and how can they resign? resign recumbentially they cannot, for they know not the promises; resign obedientially they cannot, for they know not the precepts; resign in an humble docibleness they cannot, for they know not so much as their want of knowledge. Again, some sins, though unknown, carry in the matter of them a direct repugnancy to resignation and ⟨p. 158⟩so to faith. For instance, every man hath some natural Popery in his heart, he would be justified by a righteousness of his own. The Jews being asked, whether they believed to be saved by Christs righteousness, made this answer, every fox must pay his own skin to the flayer, every man must stand upon his own righteousness;