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

and with what horrid roarings and shriekings will you drop down into the bottomless gulf, where you must receive double damnation, not only for being without, but also for refusing to accept of Christ and his Righteousness? now there is a precious price in your hands, and as fair opportunity for the preventing of all this, if a Saviour may but find welcome, and you are but indeed willing to accept of him as he is offered in the Gospel: oh, be persuaded to make haste, give all diligence to get in to him, before the doom that is past, be put in execution.

and with what horrid roarings and shriekings will you drop down into the bottomless gulph, where you must receive double damnation, not onely for being without, but also for refusing to accept of Christ and his Righteousness? now there is a precious price in your hands, and as fair opportunity for the preventing of all this, if a Saviour may but find welcome, and you are but indeed willing to accept of him as he is offered in the Gospel: oh, be perswaded to make haste, give all diligence to get in to him, before the doom that is past, be put in execution.

If now there be any soul that is moved with those things, and doth with seriousness make the enquiry, how shall a wretched condemned sinner come to make sure of an unfailing interest in the Righteousness of Christ? or how shall I obtain that Justifying Faith by which it is apprehended and received? To such an enquirer I would answer, that you can do nothing for your selves by your own Strength, but you are in sense of your utter impotency, to be looking to and waiting upon God in Christ, for his Spirit and Grace, and that in a way of diligent attendance upon all the ways which are of his appointment ⟨p. 135⟩and in the which he hath been wont to come and bless; and in this way there are two things requisite to be found in you, if ever you hope to have a sure claim to this great privilege, viz.

If now there be any soul that is moved with those things, and doth with seriousness make the enquiry, how shall a wretched condemned sinner come to make sure of an unfailing interest in the Righteousness of Christ? or how shall I obtain that Justifying Faith by which it is apprehended and received? To such an enquirer I would answer, that you can do nothing for your selves by your own Strength, but you are in sence of your utter impotency, to be looking to and waiting upon God in Christ, for his Spirit and Grace, and that in a way of diligent attendence upon all the ways which are of his appointment