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

There are two things which obstruct mans happiness, and till they are both of them removed from him, he remains altogether hopeless of it, viz. his guilt and his pollution: the former hath armed the Law against him to his condemnation, and the latter hath made him actually and habitually miserable: the taking away of any one of these singly is not enough to make him happy, if the other do not remain behind: for upon the supposal of his being ⟨p. 152⟩pardoned, if still he be detained under the defilement and dominion of Sin, he is under the greatest evil, and by reason thereof is extremely miserable, and cannot get to heaven that place of blessedness, Rev. 21. 27. into it there shall enter nothing that defileth or worketh abomination; and likewise if he be sanctified, and not pardoned, he must still be unhappy, if a curse of death can […] him so: Christ therefore, that he might be a complete Saviour, and able to save to the uttermost, had all his Offices put upon him; and all such as hope to be found saved by him, must accept of him in them all: and hence it follows, that whosoever he be that truly believes in him for pardon, doth also lay hold upon him for his sanctifying grace, and together with his taking shelter under his Priestly Office, for the obtaining of Gods favour to be extended to him doth also put himself under his Prophetical and Kingly Office, that he may be savingly enlightened in the way of truth, and have his sin mortified, his soul and body cleansed throughout, according to, Isa, 25. 24. In the Lord we shall have Righteousness and Strength: and till you are come thus far, you do but in vain expect to be the better for his Righteousness: but as for those who have made ⟨p. 153⟩Christ their all, they shall find him to be all to them.

There are two things which obstruct mans happiness, and till they are both of them removed from him, he remains altogether hopeless of it, viz. his guilt and his pollution: the former hath armed the Law against him to his condemnation, and the latter hath made him actually and habitually miserable: the taking away of any one of these singly is not enough to make him happy, if the other do not remain behind: for upon the supposal of his being ⟨p. 152⟩