The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

3. Where there is an holy life, this course of walking in Gods commands, is out of a gracious respect unto God: there be thousands of actions that are materially good, that are not formally so: if they be done merely from self-love, they are not good: it is necessary that they be done out of a gracious respect unto God. I rather chose so to express it: then to say they must be done for the glory of God, because there are some internal actings of grace, wherein the soul has no end: thus when God draws the heart to love him, the man has no end, thus when the Spirit of God makes a mans heart break for ⟨p. 255⟩sin, he has no design in it, when a man sets himself to mourn for sin he has an end, but when the heart is grieved for sin, he cannot help it: he has no design in that, though he has a motive: and he ever has a gracious respect unto God; the glorious excellency of God has an influence upon his heart: that are some duties that cannot be done but from a gracious respect unto God: there are some holy actions that cannot be done but by a principle of grace, as to believe in Jesus Christ to love God to hate sin: another man that has not grace may imitate these, but he can't do them: what faith he has and love, &c. differs to-to genere from the faith and love that is in Saints: these holy actions cannot be done but by a gracious respect unto God: selfish considerations may have some influence into these, as Gods love to us has some influence into our love to him: but in these actions the soul is principally swayed by a gracious respect: unto God, Job. 42.5, 6. and such other acts of obedience as may be done meetly upon selfish considerations, are done by him that lives an holy life principally upon spiritual considerations, Mat. 10.42. yet in a subordinate way he does, and may make use of selfish considerations; and such as moral men are swayed by: such considerations in their place are of weight. God urges them in his Word, as the examples of men, the benefit of holiness, the punishment of sin: men must not condemn themselves, because they have a respect unto such things in their obedience, Heb. 1.7, 22.

3. Where there is an holy life, this course of walking in Gods commands, is out of a gracious respect unto God: there be thousands of actions that are materially good, that are not formally so: if they be done meerly from self-love, they are not good: it is necessary that they be done out of a gracious respect unto God. I rather chose so to express it: then to say they must be done for the glory of God, because there are some internal actings of grace, wherein the soul has no end: thus when God draws the heart to love him, the man has no end, thus when the Spirit of God makes a mans heart break for