if they be any who belong to this Church, will they not hear the Church? (Serm. of Salv.)

[We but not out other Good works, to be joyned with Faith: But we fhut them out from the Office of Fuftifying. So that, tho' they be all prefent together, in him that is Juftified; yet they Juftify not all together.]

And may not we Disclaim their Merit; And at the fame time, keep up their Practice? Nay, what if after all the Gry, We better fecure 'em, than they that build their Juftification upon 'em? For holding Justification and Sanctification to be Infeparable; We do never Renounce, but ftill fuppofe 'em: And ftill make 'em the Confequents; Tho' never the Fore-runners, of Faith and Grace. Tho' we are not for Exalting 'em, above their due Place; yet we would not fhut 'em out of Doors. Tho' we cannot Pride it, in the Polluted stuff: yet we would not go Naked. Though we dare not give 'em the Honour of working our Juftification: Yet we conftantly affirm, that they flow from it; even as Light from the Sun And though fometimes they are weak and Clouded, as the Sun-Light is; and do not perpetually fhine forth, with a Meridian Luftre yet there is the Principle and Fountain of 'em; and the feed of God, laid in the Believing Soul, to Raife and Maintain 'em. Yea even in a cloudy

cloudy Sky, we can tell, that the Sun is Rifen And it cannot be up, but there will be fome Signs of Day: So no Justification in God's Sight; but there will be fome holy Change in our Sight: As Eyes Open'd; Heart foften'd; Prejudices Conquer'd; Affections Rais'd; Courfe Turn'd; and the whole Man Better'd: Not to be less Careful of his Duty, but more concern'd than ever, for it. Seeing the Grace of the Gospel takes not away the Obligation of the Law: Nor does Juftification give Leave to commit any Sin; Tho' it give Pardon for all Sins committed. And 'twas a good Saying of a great Reformer, (Libertas in Chrifto, nullam Innocentiæ fecit injuriam.) Our Liberty in Christ does not Diminish any thing of our Duty to him.

For ftill the Tree is to be known by its Fruits: And they are not his Sheep, that do not follow him. The Freedom which he brings is from the Bondage of Sin, and the Dread of Wrath: That we may more rea-. dily and Ingenuously ferve him; As a people Deliver'd and made Willing by him. And fuch a Relaxation is the ftrongest Obligation. Pfal. 130. 4. There is Forgiveness with thee, O Lord, that thou mayst be Feared: Even with fuch a Child-like Fear of Offending; as is not only confiftent with the dearest Love; But naturally flows from it. And thus even Believers pass the time of their fojourning

journing here in Fear. 1 Pet. 1. 17. Looking diligently, Left any man Fail of the Grace of God. Heb. 12. 15. And the more cautiously fhall all, by fuch, be carried; the more they perceive how they have been Favoured.

To be Look'd upon in our Blood; and even when we were Enemies, To be Reconciled unto God by the Death of his Son. Rom. 5. 16. O what like the fenfe of this mighty Undeferved Love, to melt down and Overcome the Heart, and beget a dear Love to Him, that fo First Loved us! And then what fo ftudious as Love to be Thankful? And to Express the Thankfulness in all Pleafingness; Striving and Loving to be Like our generous Lover, and bleffed Provider? This is the Ingenuity of God's Children; to be Won for ever with fuch Kindness : And then take Heart; Because they are in fuch Hands: And never think they can do enough for the God fo unfpeakably Good: The fenfe of his Love fills their Hearts with Joy: And then that Joy of the Lord is their Strength. Nothing in the World fo Animates and heartens them on, in the way of their Duty.

And tho' Strangers to the Life of Love, would fin for ever, if they durft, for the Fear of Hell; And could Ungodly wretches be but fure of Pardon, Alas, what would they do for the Love of God? But be Unfatiable

in the fouleft Wickedness; were all the Barricado's of a fervile Dread but Removed out of their way? Yet Faithful Souls fly from Sin, for the Love of their dear Lord and ask with a holy Indignation, as Rom. 6. 1. Shall we continue in Sin, that Grace may abound? Shall Believers make no Confcience of Obedience to God's Commands; Because their Obedience cannot Juftify 'em in God's Sight? Or fhall they Grow upon the God of all Grace, and venture to do their Worft; Because all's made fure on their fide? The Apoftle argues rather from their fure Obfignation, to their more Cautious Converfation: Eph. 4. 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are Sealed to the day of Redemption. And he befeeches 'em only by the Mercies of God, to Devote themfelves to his Service. Rom. 12. 1. For indeed, how could he ever devife a more, Forcible Argument? Exhorting to a holy Walking with God, He does not Eat his former Words; Nor Undo the Doctrine he had taught, of Juftification by Faith without Works; As a Loose and dangerous Doctrine. No, He argues indeed from more Sweet, but never the Lefs Cogent, Topicks: Such as, the Difingenuity, the Ingratitude, the Provocation; To fin against Light, and Power, and all the most gracious Engage-ment, to do Better: The Painfulness and Madness, fo to Grate upon the Soul, and wound the Confcience, and Create a Hell in

it. And they are Novices in the Bufinefs of Regeneration, that do not know it produces the New Creature: And what a Contradiction it is then to his very Conftitution, to lye Wallowing in Sin; When he is Shaped and made for quite another Service: How he Reluctates against the Wicked thing; and while he is Himfelf, he cannot do it.

I appeal to every Heart that has been Warmed with the Love of God: If there be in the World, a more Powerful Diffuafive from Sin, than the Loving-kindness of the Lord, in Forgiving our Sins: If there be any Cords ftronger, than thofe of Love; to bind us to our Duty: And if any Force more Prevalent than that, 2 Cor. 5. 14. When the Love of Christ Conftraineth us. No, the Child of God would fet himself against Sin, Tho' there were no Heaven or Hell.

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God makes it Irkfom, and Holiness Delightful, to the Juftified Soul. He that Lives in the Region of Love; and fees the Love of Chrift Blotting out all the Bitter things which the Law writes against him; is more Animated, as well as more Obliged, to Live to the Reliever of his Mifery. And Faith does more to Conquer his Corruptions, than all the moft Elaborate of Legal duties ever could do. It wings and Enfpirits his Services, to know in whom he Believes; and with whom he has to do; The fweet Saviour, H 2

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