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and the manner in which performed, and the end, to which directed. A Sense of ina-
bility to pursue the desirable objects in these perticulars, cause him to pray for aid,
if it even should be, by groans, not to be uttered: To watch the outgoings of the hert:
To fear and dread all rest and easiness in duties, lest they should want the necessary
requisites to be acceptable to God. And if ever such a mind injoys any real Comfort and
Satisfaction, it proceeds from its relying, with all the Imperfections of its nature and
actions, on the meritorious satisfaction of its Mediator, the Son of God. — Secondly, such
as prove, our being freed, by a living Faith, from the Condemning power of Sin, I con-
ceive to be. 1. The mind's habitual views of, and inclination to that way of Justifica-
tion, which the Gospel only and fully reveals and offers. If it finds rest and satisfac-
tion, as to its peace with God, from any degree of Reformation arrived to, or duties
performed, it proves a legal heart: by the law, no flesh shall be justifyed. But if under
a Sense of Guilt and deserved Condemnation, it dreads all legal works as Via way to
be Reconciled to God; but feels, that he wishes to be found in Christ, not so much
from necessity, because he believes he must otherwise go to hell, but from a full Con-
viction of the suitableness of the way of Sovereign Grace, tending most to our abasement
and the Glory of God. This proves the assenting act of Faith: The lowest, I conceive,
in order to our Justification. Self-Deceivers, may speak much of Christ; but if duely
examined, will be found to originate, not so much from a Complacency in that way, as
humbling to itself, and to the Glory of God; as from self-love, their views of the many
benifits accrueing by his death to them. Therefore their language generally is what
reasons they have to love Christ, who, by his sufferings, has delivered them from hell
and gave them a title to heaven. While they discover deep Ignorance of what hell or
heaven really are. 2. 