Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 2,0J rnity in both an Abfolute and Comparative fenfe : that is, both as they proceed from our inward cor- ruption, which through the weaknefs of the foul having but little grace, is not fully reftrained, and alto as it , is compared with grofs fins nd fo we may call idle words and rail, expreffions in our hail, G and filch like , Sins of Infirmity , in comparifon of Murder , Perjury or the like grofi fins ; which we commonly call Crirves or Wckednefi , when the former we ufe to call but Fag/tr. Thefe Infirmities are they which the Ppiik ( and fome Learned Divines of our own ; as 1?.,..6 Baronius in his excellent Tradate de Peccat, Mortali & Veniali) do call Venial (ins; Some of them in a fair and bon& fenfe, viz. Becaufe they are foci) fins ad a true Chriflian may live and die in, though not unrepented or unrefined, yet not fubdueoi Jofar ai to forfake or cearefrom the prat-Hoe of tbtm; anayet they are pardoned. But other Pa pillscall them Venial fins in a wicked fenfe, as if they needed no pardon, or deferved not eternal punifhment. (And why fhould they call them Venial if theyneed not pardon ?) A juflified man liveth in the daily pra.- dice of fome vain thoughts, or the frequent corn- million of fome other fins, which by his utmoft diligence he might refirain : But he liveth not in the frequent pradice of Adultery , Drunken- nefs, Falfe-witneffing, Slandering, Hating his Bro- ther, &c, Yet obferveithat.though the forementioned Leifer fins are called Infirmities, in regard of the matter of them; yet they may be fo committed in regard of the endand manner ofthem,as may make them crimes or grofs
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