Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification,…

Sol. ¹I speak not against Morality. But yet let me tell thee, if thou hast no more then Morality, it will not bring thee to Heaven. Not but that a moral man is an excellent stock, whereon to graft grace and virtue, it's a good help to Heaven, yet it comes far short of bringing him thither. Natural reason was once a full and fair glass, till it was broken by the fall: but now it is insufficient. The Tables in Moses hands were excellent ⟨p. 50⟩things, God made the first Tables with his own hand, and perchance they may be therein typical; when these were broken, Moses makes the second, these not so excellent as the former, though I should esteem a piece of these more excell••t, then all the relics of the Papists, for there was something of the first in them, God writes them with his own singer. This glass which then was so perfect, is now broken, and is not so perfect as it was, though there be something yet remaining in it; We may see something of its ancient lustre in the Gentiles, for these having not a Law, are a Law unto themselves. There are practical principles y•t remaining in the Tables of our hearts, so that they that care not for the Law, shall be judged by that natural light which is in them. We have a conscience to difference between good and evil. This is the truth. It's a part of the Image of God implanted in us, which we are not to despise lest we be judged with those that hold the truth in unrighteousness: The truth is the principals of difference betwixt good & bad: the soul was to have a seat as a Queen to rule all our actions▪ But •ow this Queen is taken captive, & all is lost: Morality and in ward principals are to be much esteemed, as things which God at first planted, yet do they come short of bringing a man to Heaven. The young man in the Gospel had a good esteem of himself, and was doubtless esteemed of others, and did many things: but yet our Saviour tells him, how hard a thing it was to come to Heaven: Although he thinks himself well ⟨p. 51⟩enough, though he were rich, our Saviour tells him of the commandments: all these, saith he, have I kept from my youth, a good moral man indeed that had done so much, but this was not enough, one thing lacked: go and sell all that thou hast, &c. Yet because there was so much in him, we read