A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

when every refuge of lies, and hiding place of deceit shall be laid level, as they certainly will in that day, when he shall lay judgment to the line, and Righteousness to the Plummet.

9. Consider the daily danger you go in till you are justified: did sinners but know how many mischiefs they lye open to, what infinite hazards they run every moment, as long as they continue strangers to the Righteousness of Christ, it would surely either drive them to doleful despair, or else forcibly put them upon it to make it their first work, to seek after the obtaining of it with the utmost diligence: and what faith Christ himself, John 3. 18. He that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God: The sentence of the Law is already past, that the Should that sins, that Soul shall dye: guilt and a curse are now upon you, and they hold you in such betters as are indissoluble by any created power whatsoever, and keep you fast for that woeful execution which God will come […] long to do upon all those who shall be found held under that condemnation; and it is Gods mere patience which ⟨p. 133⟩presents you a present reprieve, but for which you had long ere this felt the weight of his hand; and remember that this also is only currant been placito: rich mercy hath also exalted this, day of patience into a day of grace, wherein there is offered an opportunity, together with the means of making your peace, and getting reconciled unto God, but how long that shall last is only known unto him, who hath all our times in his hand, and if he do but once give the word, it ends in that very moment; and if you shall go down into the grave unjustified, being naked for want of Christs Righteousness to cover you, you will never more have and offer of it made unto you throughout eternity: and thou, when the powerful word of God, shall awaken your drowsy dust, and reunite your separated Souls and Bodies, and the dreadful sound of the last Trumpet, shall alarm and hasten you to the terrible Tribunal, how will you be able in that day to look this Christ in the face whom you have thus wilfully despised? how will you weary the mountains, and tire the hills with fruitless cries and entreaties to cover and hide you from the presence of the Lamb, in the great day of his indignation? with what pale faces, and ghastly countenances, and trembling joints,