The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

4. Hereupon he lives in the practice of the mortification of this deceitfulness. As he doth not allow it, so he cannot be quiet for it, but seeks to have it destroyed. We are commanded to mortify the lusts in us, Col. 3. 5. and he makes it his •usiness to do so, he fights against it, he brings it to the Cross of Christ to be crucified, he prays •rd against it, Psal. 119. 29. he hates it, v. 128. Such an one, in Gods gracious account is one in whose Spirit is no Guile.

2. Whether this have any influence into our pardon, […] Justification?

2. Whether this have any influence into our pardon, 〈…〉 Justification?

A. There is occasion to make this enquiry here, because the disputes about it, which began from the first planting of the Churches by the Apostles, ⟨p. 108⟩are not yet at an end; nor do Papists only continue to maintain their Doctrine of merit, and the confounding of Justification with Sanctification, but there are others, who call themselves Protestants, and are not willing to be counted Arminian neither; who go about to depreciate the fre• Grace of God in pardoning and justifying of us who, whiles they ascribe all to Christ as the meritorious cause, yet find the matter of our Justification in us, which they would have to be o Sanctification, and New Obedience, our faith and Repentance, and Holiness: and they make the not only necessarily concomitant, but an essent part of our Justification. Give me leave then […] clear up this matter, and show the mistake of such an opinion in the following Conclusions.