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But 2. Hence we have to confute that lewd opinion, that the Saints (according to the new stile, which all new opinions do write) need not mourn for sin, need not be humbled for, nor troubled with any sin, (if at lest they can sin) which is improved to that height, that conferring of sin and mourning for sin, is the greatest sin a Saint can be guilty of. ⟨p. 23⟩When alas, the Spirit of God tells us here, that no people in the world have so much cause to mourn and lament for sin, as they have; and you have seen the Doctrine made good by Scripture grounds and demonstrations.

But 2. Hence we have to confute that lewd opinion, that the Saints (according to the new stile, which all new opinions do write) need not mourn for sin, need not be humbled for, nor troubled with any sin, (if at lest they can sin) which is improved to that height, that conferring of sin and mourning for sin, is the greatest sin a Saint can be guilty of. ⟨p. 23⟩When alas, the Spirit of God tels us here, that no people in the world have so much cause to mourn and lament for sin, as they have; and you have seen the Doctrine made good by Scripture grounds and demonstrations.

As for those that can wipe off all this with the jeer and blasphemy of an old Testament Spirit, I dare be bold to say, and fear not the breach of charity in it, let them be who they will, whether Teachers or Taught, Doctors, or Disciples, they be of the number of the Apostles Separatists ¹mockers, walking after their own lusts, sensual, having not the Spirit; they have not the Spirit, neither old-Testament-Spirit, nor new-Testament-Spirit; for it was but one and the same Spirit of God that dictated both Testaments to the pen-men thereof: all Scripture is [Greek or Hebrew] given by inspiration, ²