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

2. If you would close in with Christ by such a Faith as shall indeed justify you, you must in it embrace and accept of whole Christ in all his Offices. If you would him to be your Righteousness, you must take him also to be ⟨p. 150⟩your Wisdom and your Sanctification: there are multitudes that make a great pretence to have closed in with Christ in his Priestly Office; they have been convinced of the breach of peace that hath been made between God and them, and the wrath that is out against them, which they are afraid of, and earnestly desirous that they may be delivered from it, and hereupon they would have him to be their atonement or reconciler to God, to satisfy the demands of Justice upon their accounts, and procure them pardon and peace with God, and are mightily taken with the notion they have entertained about him as such an one, and highly commend him for this great work of Redemption, in procuring a rescue from condemnation, and delivery from hell and eternal miseries which otherwise the sinful children of men must needs have undergone: and they would fain persuade themselves to rely upon this, and take him […] such a consideration, and finding something like a consent to it, which they take for faith, they are hereupon ready to think that it is theirs; and now they are delivered from their great fears, the bitterness of death is past, they have an High Priest who in entered into the Holy of Holies for them; and for all this, if these men ⟨p. 151⟩would but look a little closer into their own hearts, they shall find that they have not as yet been brought unto a willing consent to part with their own ways and courses, or to submit themselves to his Prophetical and Kingly office: they lean to their own wisdom, and will follow their own directions, his commands, at least all of them, do not please them; they cannot yield a full compliance with his preceptive will, and they rise up against his Providential will: and allow themselves a liberty of following the edicts and advice of their own hearts: But be assured, that these two always go together, and they that will not have him to reign over them, shall never enjoy him as a Saviour unto them, they both go hand in hand, Acts 5. 31. Him hath God exalted with […] right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour.