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

Secondly, A Christian may be considered in respect of his natural being in himself, and thus he is ever under the Law, and as oft as he sinneth, under the sentence of death (and as the Apostle speaks) by nature even we (justified, quickened) are the children of wrath as well as others. And thus after the least involuntary accidental si•ne, you may easily see what cause you have to lie down deeply humbled, mourning under the sentence of death, and Gods eternal curse, as a condemned man going to the execution, to feel that fire that shall never go out; looking upon your self as you are in your self, a forlorn castaway every moment: and this truly understood is the foundation of a Christians sorrow, shame, and confusion of face, self-loathing, self-forgetting, self•forsaking, and condemning every day: and (believe it Sir) it is no small piece of a Christians skill and work, to put a difference between himself and himself, himself as he is in Christ, and so to joy and triumph, and himself as he ⟨p. 17⟩is growing on his first root, and so to sorrow, and loath, and condemn himself: so that (to wi•de up all that I have said) look upon your self as in Christ, you may say these involuntary infirmities do not, shall not, condemn me.

Secondly, A Christian may be considered in respect of his naturall being in himselfe, and thus he is ever under the Law, and as oft as hee sinneth, under the sentence of death (and as the Apostle speakes) by nature even we (justified, quickned) are the children of wrath as well as others. And thus after the least involuntary accidentall si•ne, you may easily see what cause you have to lie down deepely humbled, mourning under the sentence of death, and Gods eternall curse, as a condemned man going to the execution, to feel that fire that shall never go out; looking upon your self as you are in your self, a forlorn castaway every moment: and this truly understood is the foundation of a Christians sorrow, shame, and confusion of face, self-loathing, self-forgetting, self•forsaking, and condemning every day: and (believe it Sir) it is no small piece of a Christians skill and work, to put a difference between himselfe and himself, himselfe as he is in Christ, and so to joy and triumph, and himselfe as hee