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

1. Let the consideration of this Doctrine direct and teach you the right way how to answer all the ••vils and satisfactions of Satan and your own misgiving hearts, that at any time do offer to give you disquietment; and that is, be sure to keep the eye of your Faith always firmly sixth upon the true and proper ground of your Justification. Satan is often making his assaults upon the people of God, and endeavouring to disrest them, and that by endeavouring to puzzle them with doubts about their state of reconciliation to God: yea and our own relenting hearts are exceeding ready to be hurried into the Temptation, and be exceedingly molested with fears and jealousies about it: and that which usually is the main reason of our being in such perplexity is, because we look off from that which is the true and only bottom of all our hope upon some other thing which hath not strength enough in it to bear it up: whereas if the people of God could keep their eyes firmly sixth upon ⟨p. 154⟩Jesus Christ, and his righteousness, and keep open a clear discovery of their particular interest in it, this would afford them at all times argument enough to confute, and put all that they can say to silence: what is it that he can allege to overthrow our Consolation, but may with this be beaten back? he will be ready to tell us that we are sinners, and for that reason are righteously condemned according to the tenor of a just Law, but from this ground we have that to answer that we are without sin in Christ, and are made righteous in Gods account, by virtue of his perfect obedience, believed in by us, and reputed to be ours by our Judg. It may be he will clamour against us, and say that we never did fulfil the Law of God, and so are altogether incapable of making any fair and rational Plea to the being possessed of the good and blessedness therein promised, only to such as do fully do all that is there commanded, but contrarily must needs fall under the sentence of eternal death which is out against all Law-breakers, because by our transgression we have certainly brought our selves under it, and how shall we think to escape it?

1. Let the consideration of this Doctrine direct and teach you the right way how to answer all the ••vils and satisfactions of Satan and your own misgiving hearts, that at any time do offer to give you disquietment; and that is, be sure to keep the eye of your Faith alwayes firmly fixt upon the true and proper ground of your Justification. Satan is often making his assaults upon the people of God, and endeavouring to disrest them, and that by endeavouring to puzzle them with doubts about their state of reconciliation to God: yea and our own relenting hearts are exceeding ready to be hurried into the Temptation, and be exceedingly molested with fears and jealousies about it: and that which usually is the main reason of our being in such perplexity is, because we look off from that which is the true and only bottom of all our hope upon some other thing which hath not strength enough in it to bear it up: whereas if the people of God could keep their eyes firmly fixt upon