21'e Preface to the Readers. They are very different Queftions, Flow we are con., ilituted juft , or put into a juftifyed Oate at our Con- verfion and how we are fentenced juft; -or juftifyed at Gods Judgement Seats They that will needs (to the great difgrace of their underftandings) deny that there is any fuck thing as a juitification at judgement, Inuit either fay that there is no judgement, or that All are Condemned ; or that judging doth not contain. Juftid- .cation and Condemnation, as its disjunct fpecies ; but force men (hall then be judged, :Who (hall neither be ju- ftifyed or condemned. To which end, when they have full taken down the Authority of Chrift, who: tells us that By our words. we 'ball (then) be juflifyed, or by. our words we ihalLbe condemned, they mull' next take down the Authority of Lawyers, and then, of our common cuitom of fpeech, and muff fet up their own Authority inftead of all. To fay , God will then but declare us juft, is no anfwer, till they have proved that it is not by a fentence of judgement that he will declare it ; or elfe, that declaring by a fentence of judgement, is no ftification ; yea, that it is not the moil proper and full ju- ftification imaginable. _ I have laidenough in the following Treatife ' to thew my thoughts of the Neceility and Excellencyof Holi- nefs, and fincere obedience. We are taught to pray for It in the Lords Prayer, (in the three firft Petitions) be- -fore the forgivenefs of fin (in the fifth) And doubtlefs it is that higher Bleffing, which forgivenefs tendeth to 'as a means to the end : Even that Godmay have his own again, which was loft, and man may again be neerer and liker to God, and fitter to know, love andhonour him, and be happy therein. I fcarce know any one error that fubjeated the Church and Chriftian Religion to -much to the jealoufieS and reproach of unbelievers, or the
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