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

They may be overcome in a particular skirmish, that may overcome in the war: a godly man is many times out-bid in his conflicts with corruption, that argues the weakness, not the total want of grace, grace is sometimes under hatches, corruption ⟨p. 260⟩comes like a storm, and bears down all before it: corruption does not only out-bid conscience, but grace too: if a man throw a bawl right forward, the strength of the bias carries it aside.

Doubt 3.

I fear, because I find a spirit in my self to seek my happiness in the world, and to mourn for affliction as the greatest evil:

Every one that has any worldly love, and carnal sorrow has this spirit: worldly love is not a loving of the world, but a loving of it more than God: so carnal sorrow is not a mourning for afflictions, but a mourning for them as the greatest evil: he that is under the power of worldliness, has this spirit reigning in him: but godly men so far as they are unregenerate, and acted by a worldly spirit do prefer the World above God, and make the world their God: the spirit of worldliness is to idolize the world: but notwithstanding this you may love God above the world, and mourn for sin above any affliction: though there be a spirit to prize the world above God, yet there may be another spirit in you to prize God above all things, and where there is any degree of true love to God, there is a loving of God above all: the unregenerate part loves other things more than God; the regenerate loves God more than all other things.