been so treated in the Primitive Times nor indeed is it only about Doctrines of Religion for our Practice in Worship and Discipline have had the same Success But this is what I earnestly desire that however bold People are pleased to make with us they would not deceive themselves in the great things of their own Salvation That while they would seem to own all to Christ they are not found disowned of Christ in the last Day Read the 7th of Matthew it is he that hears Christ the great Word of God and does what he enjoins what he commands and by his Blessed Example recommends that is a Wise Builder that has founded his House well and built with good Materials and whose House will stand the last shake and Judgment For which cause we are often plain close and earnest with People to consider that Christ came not to save them in but from their Sins and that they that think to discharge and release themselves of his Yoke and Burden his Cross and Example and secure themselves and Complement Christ with his having done all for them while he has wrought little or nothing in them nor they parted with any thing for the love of him will finally awake in a dreadful surprize at the sound of the last Trumpet and at this sad and irrevokeable Sentence Depart from me ye Workers of Iniquity I know you not Which terrible End may all timely avoid by hearkening to Wisdom's Voice and turning at her Reproof that she may lead them in the Ways of Righteousness and in the midst of the Paths of Judgment that their Souls may come to inherit Substance even durable Riches and Righteousness in the Kingdom of the Father World without end CHAP. X. Sect. 1. Of the true Worship of God in what it stands Sect. 2. Of the true Ministry that it is by Inspiration Sect. 3. The Scripture plain in that Case Sect. 4. Christ's Ministers True Witnesses they speak what they know not by Report Sect. 5. Christ's Ministers they affirm Preach freely 't is one of their Marks § 1. AS the Lord wrought effectually by his Divine Grace in the Hearts of this People so he thereby brought them to a Divine Worship and Ministry Christ's words they came to Experience viz. That God was a Spirit and that he would therefore be worshipped in the Spirit and in the Truth and that such Worshippers the Father would seek to worship him For bowing to the Convictions of the Spirit in themselves in their daily course of living by which they were taught to eschew that which was made manifest to them to be evil and to do that which was good they in their Assembling together sate down and waited for the Preparation of this Holy Spirit both to let them see their States and Conditions before the Lord and to worship him acceptably and as they were sensible of Wants or Shortness or Infirmities so in the secret of their own Hearts Prayer would spring to God through Jesus Christ to help assist and supply them But they did not dare to wake their Beloved before his time or approach the Throne of the King of Glory till he held out his Scepter or take thought what they should say or after their own or other Mens studied Words and Forms for this were to Offer strange Fire to pray but not by the Spirit to ask but not in the Name that is in the Power of our Lord Jesus Christ who pray'd as well as that he spoke like one having Authority that is Power a Divine Energy and Force to reach and pierce the Heavens which he gives to all that obey his Light Grace and Spirit in their solemn Waitings upon him So that 't is this Peoples Principle that Fire must come from Heaven Life and Power from God to enable the Soul to pour out it self acceptably before him And when a Coal from his holy Altar touches our Lips then can we Pray and Praise him as we ought to do And as this is our Principle and that according to Scripture so is it Blessed be God our Experience and Practice And therefore it is we are separated from the Worships of Men under their several Forms because they do not found it in the Operation Motion and Assistance of the Spirit of Christ but the Appointment Invention and Framing of Man both as to Matter Words and Time We do not dissent in our own Wills and we dare not comply against His that has called us and brought us to his own Spiritual Worship in Obedience to whom we are what we are in our Separation from the divers Ways of Worship in the World § 2. And as our Worship stands in the Operation of the Spirit and Truth in our inward Parts as before expressed so does our Ministry For as the Holy Testimonies of the Servants of God of Old were from the Operation of his Blessed Spirit so must those of his Servants be in every Age and that which has not the Spirit of Christ for its Spring and Source is of Man and not Christ Christian Ministers are to minister what they receive This is Scripture now that which we receive is not our own less another Mans but the Lord's So that we are not only not to Steal from our Neighbours but we are not to Study and speak our own words If we are not to study what we are to say before Magistrates for our selves less are we to study what we are to say for and from God to the People We are to minister as the Oracles of God if so then must we receive from Christ God's Great Oracle what we are to minister And if we are to minister what we receive then not what we Study Collect and beat out of our own Brains for that is not the Mind of Christ but our Imaginations and this will not Profit the People § 3. This was recommended to the Corinthians by the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 14. that they should speak as they were moved or as any thing was revealed to them by the Spirit for the Edification of the Church for says he Ye may all Prophecy that is ye may all Preach to Edification as any thing is revealed to you for the Good of others and as the Spirit giveth Vtterance And if the Spirit must give Christ's Ministers their Utterance then those that are his are careful not to utter any thing in his Name to the People without his Spirit and by good Consequence they that go before the true Guide and utter words without the Knowledge of the Mind of the Spirit are none of Christ's Ministers Such certainly run and God has not sent them and they cannot Profit the People And indeed how should they when it is impossible that meer Man with all his Parts Arts and Acquirements can turn People from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan to God which is the very End and Work of the Gospel-Ministry It must be Inspired Men Men
not occasion any Misapprehension or Confusion in the Understanding of the Reader I would have him know that they always mean by those Terms or Denominations not an other but the same Principle before mentioned Which as I said though it be in Man is not of Man but of God and therefore Divine And one in it self though diversly expressed by the Holy Men according to the various Manifestations and Operations thereof § 4. It is to This Principle of Light Life and Grace that this People refer all For they say it is the great Agent in Religion That without which there is no Conviction so no Conversion or Regeneration and consequently no entring into the Kingdom of God That is to say there can be no true sight of Sin nor sorrow for it and therefore no forsaking or overcoming of it or Remission or Justification from it A necessary and powerful Principle indeed when neither Sanctification nor Justification can be had without it In short there is no becoming Virtuous Holy and Good without this Principle no acceptance with God nor Peace of Soul but through it But on the contrary that the Reason of so much Irreligion among Christians so much Superstition instead of Devotion and so much Profession without Injoyment and so little Heart-Reformation is because People in Religion Over-look this Principle and leave it behind them They will be Religious without it and Christians without it though this be the only means of making them so indeed So natural it is to Man in his degenerate Estate to prefer Sacrifice before Obedience and to make Prayers go for Practice and so flatter himself to Hope by Ceremonial and Bodily Services to excuse himself with God from the stricter Discipline of this Principle in the Soul which leads Man to take up the Cross deny self and do that which God requires of him And that is every Mans true Religion and every such Man is truly Religious That is he is Holy Humble Patient Meek Merciful Just Kind and Charitable which they say no Man can make himself but that this Principle will make all them so that will embrace the Convictions and Teachings of it being the Root of all true Religion in Man and the Good-Seed from whence all Good Fruits proceed To summ up what they say upon the Nature and Virtue of it as Contents of that which follows they declare that this Principle is First Divine Secondly Vniversal Thirdly Efficacious In that it gives Man First The Knowledge of God and of himself and therein a sight of his Duty and Disobedience to it Secondly It begets a true Sence and Sorrow for Sin in those that seriously regard the Convictions of it Thirdly It enables them to forsake Sin and Sanctifies from it Fourthly It applies Gods Mercies in Christ for the forgiveness of Sins that are past unto Justification upon such Sincere Repentance and Obedience Fifthly It gives the Faithful Perseverance unto a Perfect Man and the Assurance of Blessedness World without End To the Truth of all which they call in a Threefold Evidence First The Scriptures which give an ample Witness especially those of the New and better Testament Secondly The Reasonableness of it in it self And Lastly A General Experience in great Measure But particularly their Own made credible by the good Fruits they have brought forth and the Answer God has given to their Ministry Which to impartial Observers have commended the Principle and gives me Occasion to abstract their History in divers Particulars for a Conclusion to this little Treatise CHAP. II. Sect. 1. The Evidence of Scripture for that Principle John 1. 4 9. Sect. 2. It s Divinity Sect. 3. All things created by it Sect. 4. What it is to Man as to Salvation § 1. I Shall begin with the Evidence of the blessed Scriptures of Truth for this Divine Principle and that under the Name of Light the first and most common Word used by them to express and denominate this Principle by as well as most apt and proper in this dark State of the World John 1. 1. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God Ver. 3. All things were made by him Ver. 4. In him was Life and that Life was the Light of Men. Ver. 9. That was the true Light which Lighteth every Man that cometh into the World § 2. I have begun with him that begun his History with the beginning of the Creation of God the most beloved Disciple and longest Liver of all the Apostles and he that for his excelling Knowledge and Wisdom in heavenly Things is justly entituled John the Divine He tells us first what he was in the Beginning viz. The Word In the beginning was the Word And though that shews what the Word must be yet he adds and explains that the Word was with God and was God lest any should doubt of the Divinity of the Word or have lower Thoughts of him than he deserved The Word then is Divine and an apt Term it is that the Evangelist stiles him by since it is so great an Expression of the Wisdom and Power of God to Men. § 3. All things were made by him If so he wants no Power And if we were made by him we must be new made by him too or we can never enjoy God His Power shews his Dignity and that nothing can be too hard for such a sufficiency as made all things and without which nothing was made that was made As Man's Maker must be his Husband so his Creator must be his Redeemer also § 4. In him was Life and the Life was the Light of Men. This is ou◠Point The Evangelist first begins with the Nature and Being of the Word From thence he descends to the Works of the Word And lastly then he tells us what the Word is with respect to Man above the rest of the Creation viz. The Word was Life and the Life was the Light of Men. The Relation must be very near and intimate when the very Life of the Word that was with God and was God is the Light of Men As if Man were next to the Word and above all the rest of his Works for it is not said so of any other Creature Man cannot want Light then no not a Divine Light For if this be not Divine that is the Life of the Divine Word there can be no such thing at all as Divine or Supernatural Light and Life And the Text does not only prove the Divinity of the Light but the Vniversality of it also because the Man mentioned in it is Mankind Which is yet more distinctly express'd in the 9th verse That was the True Light which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World Implying that he that lighteth not Mankind is not that True Light and therefore John was not that Light but bore witness of him that was who lighted every Man to wit the Word that took Flesh So that both
the Divine Nature and Vniversality of the Light of Christ within are confirmed together CHAP. III. Sect. 1. How this Scripture is wrested Sect. 2. That 't is a Natural Light Sect. 3. That it Lighteth not all Sect. 4. That 't is only the Doctrine and Life of Christ when in Flesh all answer'd and its Divinity and Universality proved § 1. BUt though there be no Passage or Proposition to be found in Holy Scripture in which Mankind is more Interested or that is more clearly laid down by the Holy Ghost than this I have produced yet hardly hath any place been more industriously wrested from its true and plain Sence Especially since this People have laid any Stress upon it in Defence of their Testimony of the Light within Some will have it to be but a Natural Light or a Part of Man's Nature though it be the very Life of the Word by which the World was made and wrapt within those Verses which only concern his Eternal Power and Godhead But because I would be understood and treat of things with all plainness I will open the Terms of the Objection as well as I can and then give my Answer to it § 2. If by Natural be meant a Created thing as Man is or any thing that is requisite to the Composition of Man I deny it The Text is expresly against it and says the Light with which Man is lighted is the Life of the World which was with God and was God But if by Natural is only intended that the Light comes along with us into the World or that we have it as sure as we are Born or have Nature and is the Light of our Nature of our Minds and Understandings and is not the result of any Revelation from without as by Angels or Men then we mean and intend the same thing For it is Natural to Man to have a Supernatural Light and for the Creature to be lighted by an uncreated Light as is the Life of the Creating Word And did People but consider the Constitution of Man it would conduce much to preserve or deliver them from any Dilemma upon this account For Man can no more be a light to his Mind then he is to his Body He has the Capacity of seeing Objects when he has the help of Light but cannot be a Light to himself by which to See them Wherefore as the Sun in the Firmament is the Light of the Body and gives us discerning in our Temporal Affairs so the Life of the Word is the glorious Light and Sun of the Soul Our Intellectual Luminary that informs our Mind and give us true Judgment and Distinction about those things that more immediately concern our Better Inward and Eternal Man § 3. But others will have this Text read thus Not that the Word enlightens all Mankind but that all who are Enlightned are Enlightned by him thereby not only narrowing and abusing the Text but rendring God Partial and so severe to his Creatures as to leave the greatest part of the World in Darkness without the means or opportunity of Salvation though we are assured from the Scripture That all have Light that Christ is the Light of the World and that he dyed for all yea the Vngodly and that God desires not the Death of any but rather that all should repent and come to the Knowledge of Truth and be saved and that the Grace of God has appeared to all Men c. § 4. There is a Third Sort that will needs have it understood not of any Illumination by a Divine Light or Spirit in Man but by the Doctrine Christ Preached and the Life and Example he Lived and led in the World and which yet neither reach'd the thousandth Part of Mankind nor can consist with what the Apostle John intends in the beginning of his History which wholly relates to what Christ was before he took Flesh or at least what he is to the Soul by his immediate Inshinings and Influences 'T is most true Christ was in a Sence the Light of the World in that very Appearance and shined forth by his heavenly Doctrine many admirable Miracles and his Self-denying Life and Death But still that hinders not but that he was and is That Spiritual Light which shineth more or less in the Hearts of the Sons and Daughters of Men. For as he was a Light in his Life and Conversation he was only a Light in a more excellent Sence then he spoke of to his Disciples when he said Ye are the Lights of the World But Christ the Word enlightned them and enlightens us and enlightens all Men that come into the World which he could not be said to do if we only regard his Personal and Outward Appearance For in that Sence it is long since he was that Light but in this he is continually so In that respect he is Remote but in this Sence he is Present and Immediate else we should render the Text That was the True Light which did lighten instead of which Lighteth every Man that cometh into the World And that the Evangelist might be so understood as we speak he refers to this as an Evidence of His being the Messiah and not John for whom many People had much Reverence for verse 8. he saith of John He was not That Light but was sent to bear Witness of That Light Now comes his Proof and our Testimony That was the True Light which lighteth Every Man that cometh into the World which was not John nor any else but the Word that was with God and was God The Evangelist did not describe him by his Fasting Forty Days Preaching so many Sermons Working so many Miracles and Living so Holy a Life and after all so patiently Suffering Death which yet Christ did thereby to prove him the Light of the World but says the Evangelist That was the True Light the Word in Flesh the Messiah and not John or any else which lighteth Every Man that cometh into the World So that Christ is manifested and distinguished by giving Light And indeed so are all his Followers from other People by receiving and obeying it There are many other Scriptures of both Testaments that refer to the Light within either expresly or implicitely which for Brevity's sake I shall wave reciting but the Reader will find some Directions in the Margent which will guide him to them CHAP. IV. Sect. 1. The Virtue of the Light within It gives discerning Sect. 2. It manifests God Sect. 3. It give Life to the Soul Sect. 4. It is the Apostolical Message Sect. 5. Objection Answered about two Lights Sect. 6. About Natural and Spiritual Light Not two Darknesses within therefore not two Lights within Sect. 7. The Apostle John answers the Objection fully The Light the same 1 John 2. 8 9. § 1. THe Third thing is the Virtue and Efficacy of this Light for the end for which God hath given it viz. To
great Agent and Means of Man's Conversion and Eternal Felicity any more than Infancy Youth and Manhood make three Men instead of three growths or periods of Time of one and the same Man But passing that the many Modes or Ways of Gods appearing to Men arise as hath been said from the divers States of Men in all which it seems to have been his main design to prevent Idolatry and Vice by directing their Minds to the true Object of Worship and pressing Virtue and Holiness So that though mediately he spoke to the Patriarchs mostly by Angels in the fashion of Men and by them to their Families over and above the Illumination in themselves so the Prophets for the most Part by the Revelation of the Holy Ghost in them and by them to the Jews And since the Gospel Dispensation by his Son both Externally by his coming in the Flesh and Internally by his spiritual Appearance in the Soul as he is the great Light of the World Yet all its flowings mediately through others has still been from the same Principle co-operating with the Manifestation of it immediately in Man 's own Particular § 2. This is of great weight for our Information and Incouragement that God's Work in reference to Man is all of a Piece and in it self lies in a narrow Compass and that his Eye has ever been upon the same thing in all his Dispensations viz. to make Men truly Good by planting his Holy Awe and Fear in their Hearts Though he has condescended for the hardness and darkness of Men's Hearts to approach and spell out his Holy Mind to them by low and carnal ways as they may appear to our more Enlightned Understandings Suffering Truth to put on divers sorts of Garments the better to reach to the low State of Men to engage them from false Gods and ill Lives seeing them sunk so much below their nobler Part and what he made them that like brute Beasts they knew not their own Strength and Excellency § 3. And if we do but well consider the Reason of the Prevalency of Idolatry upon the Earlier and Darker Times of the World of which the Scripture is very particular we shall find that it ariseth from this that it is more Sensual and therefore calculated to please the Sences of Men being more Outward or Visible or more in their own Power to perform then one more spiritual in its Object For as their gods were the Workmanship of Mens Hands they could not prefer them that being the Argument which did most of all gaul their Worshippers and what of all things for that reason they were most willing to forget But their Incidency to Idolatry and the Advantages it had upon the true Religion with them plainly came from this that it was more outward and sensual They could see the Object of their Devotion and had it in their Power to Address it when they would It was more fashionable too as well as better accommodated to their Dark and too Brutal State And therefore it was that God by many Afflictions and greater Deliverances brought forth a People to endear himself to them that they might remember the Hand that saved them and Worship him and him only in order to root up Idolatry and plant the Knowledge and fear of him in their Minds for an Example to other Nations VVhoever reads Deuteronomy which is a summary of the other four Books of Moses will find the frequent and earnest Care and concern of that good Man for Israel about this very Point and how often that People slipt and laps'd notwithstanding God's Love Care and Patience over them into the Idolatrous Customs of the Nations about them Divers other Scriptures inform us also especially those of the Prophets Isaiah 44. and 45. Psalms 37. and 115. and Jer. 10. where the Holy Ghost Confutes and Rebukes the People and mocks their Idols with a sort of Holy Disdain § 4. Now that which is farthest from Idolatry and the best Antidote against it is the Principle we have laid down and the more Peoples Minds are turned and brought to it and that they resolve their Faith VVorship and Obedience into the Holy Illuminations and Power of it the nearer they grow to the end of their Creation and consequently to their Creator They are more spiritually qualified and become better fitted to VVorship God as he is VVho as we are told by our Lord Jesus Christ Is a Spirit and will be Worshipped in Spirit and in Truth and that they are such sort of Worshippers which God seeketh to worship him in this Gospel Day The hour cometh saith he and now is That is some now do so but more shall A plain Assertion in present and a Promise and Prophesie of the encrease of such VVorshippers in future VVhich shows a Change intended from a Ceremonial VVorship and State of the Church of God to a Spiritual One. Thus the Text But the time cometh and now is when the true Worshippers shall Worship the Father in the Spirit and in the Truth VVhich is as much as to say when the VVorship of God shall be more Inward than Outward and so more suitable to the Nature of God and the nobler Part of Man his Inside or his inward and better Man For so those blessed VVords import in Spirit and in Truth In the Spirit that is through the Power of the Spirit In the Truth that is in Realities not in Shadows Ceremonies or Formalities but in Sincerity with and in Life being divinely prepared and animated which brings Man not only to offer up Right VVorship but also into Intimate Communion and Fellowship with God who is a Spirit § 5. And if it be duly weighed it will appear that God in all his Manifestations of himself hath still come nearer and nearer to the Insides of Men that he might reach to their Understandings and open their Hearts and give them a plainer and nearer Acquaintance with himself in Spirit And then it is that Man must seek and find the Knowledge of God for his Eternal Happiness Indeed all things that are made show forth the Power and Wisdom of God and his Goodness too to Mankind and therefore many Men urge the Creation to silence Atheistical Objections But though all those things show a God yet Man does it above all the Rest He is the precious Stone of the Ring and the most glorious Jewel of the Globe to whose reasonable Use Service and Satisfaction the whole seems to be made and dedicated But God's Delight by whom Man was made we are told by the Holy Ghost is in the habitable Parts of the Earth with the Sons of Men Prov. 8. 31. And with those that are contrite in Spirit Isa 66. 1. And why is Man his Delight but because Man only of all his Works was his Likeness This is the intimate Relation of Man to God Somewhat nearer than ordinary for of all other Beings Man only
had the Honour of being his Image and by his Resemblance to God as I may say came his Kindred with God and Knowledge of him So that the nearest and best way for Man to know God and be acquainted with him is to seek him in himself in his Image and as he finds that he comes to find and know God Now Man may be said to be God's Image in a double Respect First As he is of an Immortal Nature and next as that Nature is Endued with those Excellencies in small and proportionable to a Creatures Capacity that are by Nature Infinitely and Incomparably in his Creator For Instance Wisdom Justice Mercy Holiness Patience and the like As Man becomes Holy Just Merciful Patient c. By the Copy He will know the Original and by the Workmanship in himself he will be acquainted with the Holy Workman This Reader is the Regeneration and New Creature we press and according to this Rule we say Men ought to be Religious and Walk in this World Man as I said just now is a Composition of both Worlds his Body is of this his Soul of the other World The Body is as the Temple of the Soul the Soul the Temple of the Word and the Word the Great Temple and Manifestation of God By the Body the Soul looks into and beholds this World and by the Word it beholds God the World that is without End Much might be said of this Order of things and their respective Excellencies but I must be Brief CHAP. VIII Sect. 1. Doctrine of Satisfaction and Justification Owned and Worded according to Scripture Sect 2. What Constructions we can't believe of them and which is an abuse of them Sect. 3. Christ Owned a Sacrifice and a Mediator Sect. 4. Justification Twofold from the Guilt of Sin and from the Power and Pollution of it Sect. 5. Exhortation to the Reader upon the whole Obj. 1. THough there be many good things said how Christ appears and works in a Soul to Awaken Convince and Convert it yet you seem not particular enough about the Death and Sufferings of Christ And it is generally Rumour'd and Charged upon you by your Adversaries that you have little reverence to the Doctrine of Christ's Satisfaction to God for our Sins and that you do not Believe That the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ when he was in the World is the alone ground of a Sinners Justification before God Answ § 1. The Doctrine of Satisfaction and Justification truly understood are placed in so strict an Union that the one is a necessary Consequence of the other and what we say of them is what agrees with the suffrage of Scripture and for the most part in the terms of it always believing that in Points where there arises any difficulty be it from the Obscurity of Expression Mis-translation or the Dust raised by the Heats of Partial Writers or Nice Criticks it is ever best to keep close to the Text and maintain Charity in the rest I shall first speak Negatively what we do not own which perhaps hath given occasion to those who have been more Hasty than Wise to judge us defective in our Belief of the Efficacy of the Death and Sufferings of Christ to Justification As § 2. First We cannot Believe that Christ is the Cause but the Effect of God's Love according to the Testimony of the Beloved Disciple John Chap. 3. God hath so loved the World that he hath given his only Begotten Son into the World that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have Everlasting Life Secondly We cannot say God could not have taken another way to have saved Sinners than by the Death and Sufferings of his Son to satisfie his Justice or that Christ's Death and Sufferings were a strict and rigid Satisfaction for that Eternal Death and Misery due to Man for Sin and Transgression For such a Notion were to make God's Mercy little concerned in Man's Salvation and indeed we are at too great a distance from his Infinite Wisdom and Power to judge of the Liberty or Necessity of his Actings Thirdly We cannot say Jesus Christ was the greatest Sinner in the World because he bore our Sins on his Cross or because he was made Sin for us who knew no Sin an Expression of great levity and unsoundness yet often said by great Preachers and Professors of Religion Fourthly We cannot Believe that Christ's Death and Sufferings so satisfies God or justifies Men as that they are thereby Accepted of God They are indeed thereby put into a state capable of being accepted of God and through the Obedience of Faith and Sanctification of the Spirit are in a state of Acceptance For we can never think a Man justified before God while Self-condemned or that any Man can be in Christ who is not a New Creature or that God looks upon Men otherwise than they are We think it a state of Presumption and not of Salvation to call Jesus Lord and not by the Work of the Holy Ghost Master And he not yet Master of our Affections Saviour And they not saved by him from their Sins Redeemer And yet they not redeemed by him from their Passion Pride Covetousness Wantonness Vanity Honours vain Friendships and Glory of this World Which were to deceive themselves for God will not be mocked such as Men sow such they must reap And though Christ did Die for us yet we must by the Assistance of his Grace work out our Salvation with fear and trembling As he Died for Sin so we must Die to Sin or we cannot be said to be saved by the Death and Sufferings of Christ or throughly justified and accepted with God Thus far Negatively Now Possitively what we own as to Justification § 3. We do Believe That Jesus Christ was our Holy Sacrifice and Attonement and Propitiation that he bore our Iniquities and that by his Stripes we were healed of the Wounds Adam gave us in his Fall and that God is just in forgiving true Penitents upon the Credit of that Holy Offering Christ made of himself to God for us and that what he did and suffer'd satisfied and pleased God and was for the sake of fallen Man that had displeased God And that through the Offering up of himself once for all through the Eternal Spirit he hath for Ever perfected those in all times that are sanctified who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8. 1. Mark that § 4. In short Justification consists of two parts or hath a twofold Consideration viz. Justification from the Guilt of Sin and Justification from the Power and Pollution of Sin and in this Sense Justification gives Man a full and clear Acceptance before God For want of this latter part it is that so many Souls Religiously inclin'd are often under Doubts Scruples and Dependencies notwithstanding all that their Teachers tell them of the Extent and Efficacy of the first part of Justification And it is too