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

they are not fit for the company that is in heaven, for the comfort that is there, nor for the employment that is there. 2. Such persons as are observing Gods commands only under some pangs, for a time they set themselves carefully to do their duty, and make conscience of their duty, and reform things that are amiss, and afterwards they wither away again, and from one neglect fall to another, they grow bold to sin, and careless of duty; lie in the practise of evil: they had a fit of religion but have lost it: such men have no faith: if men had faith, they would continue in the practise of Gods will: unbelief makes men depart from God, Heb 3.12. Faith is a preservative from Apostasy, Heb. 10.39. we are not of them that draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul: such men as have once been zealous in religion and now don't regard it, or live in any way of disobedience have no true faith: faith will not preserve men from falling, but it will from falling away, and from a course of disobedience, 3. Such persons as do not walk in Gods commands out of a gracious respect unto him: though they be ⟨p. 258⟩exceeding diligent and conscientious: yet they are not acted from spiritual considerations: they do not duties from a spirit of obedience, and for the glory of God, and from a true sense what a glorious God this is: these men have no faith; for they have no true holiness: they have no faith, for by faith men come to have a spiritual understanding of the glorious excellency of God, and if they understood that they would serve him because he is such: and hence those men that are acted by a principle of morality in their religion have no faith: and those men that are acted only by an enlightened conscience have no faith: many men are terrified and scared into religion, out of a spirit of fear they reform and do duty: but this is not real holiness: an enlightened conscience is not sufficient to make a man produce any one holy action: though men abound in duties of religion yet it be not from a right motive, they have no faith, for all their duties are but hypocrisy: not only when men make it their great end to get wealth and reputation, but when they make it their great end to get peace of conscience, deliverance from hell, and the joys of heaven:

they are not fit for the company that is in heaven, for the comfort that is there, nor for the employment that is there. 2. Such persons as are observing Gods commands only under some pangs, for a time they set themselves carefully to do their duty, and make conscience of their duty, and reform things that are amiss, and afterwards they wither away again, and from one neglect fall to another, they grow bold to sin, and careless of duty; lie in the practise of evil: they had a fit of religion but have lost it: such men have no faith: if men had faith, they would continue in the practise of Gods will: unbelief makes men depart from God, Heb 3.12. Faith is a preservative from Apostacy,