Bates - BT825 B37 1683

36 SERMONS be faved ; or .xejeted them, and he (hall be damned. If it be objeIed,that the terms of Evangelical Juflification, tho'e in themlelves comparatively eafy, yet are of impoflible performance to Men in their natural finful Bate. TheAnfwer is clear ;. t . That although the natural Man be dead in Sin, without fpiri" tual flrength to refolve and per- form his Duty, and holy heat of defìres to it; and nothing is alive in him but his corrupt Paffions, that are like Worms generated in a Carcale ; yet by the Grace . that is offered in the Gospel, he may be enabled to perform the Conditions of it, for in this the Gospel excels the Law : the Law dilcovers Sin, but affords no degrees of fupernatural Power to tubClue it, and dire6}s to no means for theexpiation of its

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