VireSions forgetting and keeping Do you perform them, or do you not ? Though you may do it with backwardnefs, and dulnefs,and weak- nefs, yet doyou Do it ? and defire you could do it better ? and lament your mifdoing it ? and endea- vour to Do it better thenyou have formerly done ? This fhews then that the fpirit prevaileth, though the flefh docontradict it. 5Yet here you muff carefully diftinguifhof Du. ties : For God bath made fume to be fecondary parts of the condition ofthe Covenant,and fo offlat neceffity for the continuance of our Juf}ification, 'and for the attaining of . ;lorirlcation : Such are confeffing Chrift before men when we are called to it ; confeffing fin ; Praying ; fhewing Mercy to the poor; forgiving wrongs; hearing and yielding to Gods Word,&c. Eiji! fuppofing that therebe op- portunity and neceffaries for the performance of thefe. But fome duties there are that God bath not laid fo great a ftrefs or neceffity on : though yet the wilful! refolved omiliion in ordinary, ofany'known duty, is contrary to the nature of true Obedience. Alfo, the Cafemay much differ with feverall per- fons, places and feafons,concerning Duty : that may be a Duty to one man, that is not to another; and in one place, which is not in another ; and at one fea- fon, which is not at another. And that may be a greater duty, and of indifpenfable neceffity to one, which to another is not fo great. It may fiand with true Grace to omit that duty which men know not to bea duty, or not to be fo to them ( except where theduty is filch, as is it felt of abfolute neceffity to falvation ) but it cannot fo fiend with Grace in thofe that know ;p ordinaril yto reject it. by Alto.
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