Several questions of serious and necessary consequence, propoundedSeverall questions of serious and necessary consequence, propounded

Though he may obtain 1 Restraining grace to keep him from known sins. 2. Constraining (or exciting) Grace to provoke him to duty (or else his Conscience sometimes terrified by the Law would fly in his face.

Though he may obtain 1 Restraining grace to keep him from known sinnes. 2. Constraining (or exciting) Grace to provoke him to duty (or else his Conscience sometimes terrified by the Law would flye in his face.

And though in this way he may find comfort (as the stony ground did, and thorny soil much more) and so from this great change he may build up to himself the faith or Assurance of his Justification, yet in truth, in so doing he buildeth upon such a sanctification which is indeed a sandy foundation.

And though in this way he may finde comfort (as the stony ground did, and thorny soyle much more) and so from this great change hee may build up to himselfe the faith or Assurance of his Justification, yet in truth, in so doing he buildeth upon such a sanctification which is indeed a sandy foundation.

2. To give my sanctification for an evident ground or cause of faith, whereby a man believeth himself to be justified, may be a building of Justification, upon a Sanctification in another case: to wit, when we shall give a man no other ground or evidence of his justification, but only from the evidence of his sanctification: For the Publican did not (as the Pharisee thought himself did) see any evident fruits of his sanctification, but was deeply affected with the sense of his sins, so that he smote his breast with the Anguish of sin, and durst not lift up his eyes to heaven through confusion of face for sin, but only cried out to God to be merciful ⟨p. 7⟩