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

There may be such actings of corruption in a saint as are inconsistent with the actual love of God: but men are often mistaken, in thinking that sinful actings are not consistent with the habitual love of God: many times a man sees such workings of grace as seems to him inconsistent with such sinful inclinations as afterwards he finds in his heart: so 'tis here, but there is no act of sin, (the sin against the Holy Ghost excepted) but is consistent with habitual grace: whatever lust is in the heart, it may be drawn into act notwithstanding the being of grace: that grace that does not altogether destroy the disposition, cannot altogether hinder the working of it: there needs more than the being of grace, to hinder the workings of the vilest corruptions, Jonah 4.9.

Doubt 2.

I fear, because in those conflicts that I have, sin gets the upper-hand: I set my self to carry patiently, and yet am carried away with impatience: and I set my self against such a temptation, and yet am out-bid.