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. /…

The condition of them that are in Christ is this, they are not under the Law, but under Grace. Thy condition who art not yet in Christ, is just the contrary; thou art not under grace, but under the Law. There are none that do more assume to themselves the privileges of grace, then they that are not under grace. You shall have your profane Wretch, your painted Civilian, your formal Hypocrite, men that are dead in trespasses and sins, that are servants to sin, while with full consent they obey sin in the lusts thereof: yet you shall have these challenge to themselves the privileges of the Covenant of grace: you shall have one swear an Oath, and when he hath done, say, God forgive me: you shall have another say, I am a great sinner, but I hope God will be merciful to me: Another, I cannot keep the Commandments, but I hope God will accept me: thus these wretches, that are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity, they claim the privileges of grace. But I would have them know, so many of you as have no evidences that you are translated out of the state of nature, and ingrafted into Christ by his holy Spirit, that you are not under grace, but under the Law. What is that?

The condition of them that are in Christ is this, they are not under the Law, but under Grace. Thy condition who art not yet in Christ, is just the contrary; thou art not under grace, but under the Law. There are none that doe more assume to themselves the priviledges of grace, then they that are not under grace. You shall have your profane Wretch, your painted Civillian, your formall Hypocrite, men that are dead in trespasses and sinnes, that are servants to sinne, while with full consent they obey sinne in the lusts thereof: yet you shall have these challenge to themselves the priviledges of the Covenant of grace: you shall have one swear an Oath, and when he hath done, say, God forgive me: you shall have another say, I am a great sinner, but I hope God will be mercifull to me: Another, I cannot keep the Commandements, but I hope God will accept me: thus these wretches, that are in the gall of bitternesse, and in the bond of iniquity, they claime the priviledges of grace. But I would have them know, so many of you as have no evidences that you are translated out of the state of nature, and ingrafted into Christ by his holy Spirit, that you are not under grace, but under the Law. What is that?