The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. /…

Here is consolation, take it, and encourage your selves by it, against the remainders of corruption that are in you. God hath left sin in you, but why? It is but to serve you, as the Canaanites that were left in Canaan; they shall not reign over you, saith God, they shall be Tributaries to you, to draw water, and to hew wood for the service of the Sanctuary, to help you in offering up Sacrifices, they shall be your servants. I speak this to your comforts only that are the Lords, sin is left in you, not to reign over you, but to serve you. You are Priests to God the Father, and you must have Sacrifices to offer up unto God: of old God made his people offer up costly Sacrifices, Oxen, and Sheep, and Calves: but now sin serveth the turn; the sin that is in thee serveth thee for Sacrifice, every sin that thou mortify it is as pleasing a Sacrifice to God, as if thou offerest up an O xe, or a Sheep: thus they are thy servants, and they save thee cost, they serve in stead of Sacrifices, they serve to draw water and cut wood: thy sins they do more further thy grace then any thing else; they help thee to draw the water of godly sorrow, of true repentance; they help thee to prize the mercies of the Lord Jesus Christ; they help thee to humility, to meekness, to a spirit of compassion to others; in a word, nothing doth thee so much service, as the sin that is in thee. Be of good comfort therefore, if thy ⟨p. 101⟩sins be grieved for, striven against, laboured against, they further thy reward for all eternity. Here is the second Use.

Here is consolation, take it, and incourage your selves by it, against the remainders of corruption that are in you. God hath left sinne in you, but why? It is but to serve you, as the Canaanites that were left in Canaan; they shall not reign over you, saith God, they shall be Tributaries to you, to draw water, and to hew wood for the service of the Sanctuary, to helpe you in offering up Sacrifices, they shall be your servants. I speak this to your comforts onely that are the Lords, sinne is left in you, not to reign over you, but to serve you. You are Priests to God the Father, and you must have Sacrifices to offer up unto God: of old God made his people offer up costly Sacrifices, Oxen, and Sheep, and Calves: but now sinne serveth the turne; the sinne that is in thee serveth thee for Sacrifice, every sinne that thou mortifie it is as pleasing a Sacrifice to God, as if thou offerest up an O xe, or a Sheep: thus they are thy servants, and they save thee cost, they serve in stead of Sacrifices, they serve to draw water and cut wood: thy sinnes they doe more further thygrace then any thing else; they helpe thee to draw the water of godly sorrow, of true repentance; they helpe thee to prize the mercies of the Lord Jesus Christ; they helpe thee to humility, to meeknesse, to a spirit of compassion to others; in a word, nothing doth thee so much service, as the sinne that is in thee. Be of good comfort therefore, if thy