Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…

Your second trouble is this (viz) that your heart is kept from being humbled for sinful distractions,¹ that hinder and interrupt the spiritual performance of holy duties, and that for two reasons: First, Because they be involuntary and accidental. Secondly, Because they cannot break the Covenant between God and your soul, being but infirmities.

Your second trouble is this (viz) that your heart is kept from being humbled for sinnefull distractions,¹ that hinder and interrupt the spirituall performance of holy duties, and that for two reasons: First, Because they be involuntary and accidentall. Secondly, Because they cannot breake the Covenant between God and your soule, being but in•irmities.

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For the latter clause concerning breach of Covenant,¹ together with the other. 1. I say, not only in••rmities do not, but the greatest sins cannot make a breach of Covenant between God and the soul that is once really (not rationally) wrapped up in the Covenant of grace. Indeed gross scandalous sins, nay infirmities, when they are given way to, and not resisted, may keep the soul from the fruition for a time of Gods Covenant, but never from the eternal jus and right unto it; for as the habit of Faith or Grace gives a man a constant right to the promise and Covenant (which seed ever remains, which habit ever lasts, Jer. 3. 9.) so the act of Faith or Grace gives a man fruition of the Covenant and the benefit of the promise, and hence by the acting and venting of some sins wherein there is included the neglect of the exercise of grace, He that is really in covenant with God, may be deprived of the fruition