104 liirettionsforgetting andkeeping which hebath Ioft;fo we mutt make fome anfwerable diftinction of Juftification (Habitual and Ac`Iual it cannot be) into Virtual Juftification which he hath not loft, and Actual 'unificationwhich he hash loft ? or into PlenaryJuftification(which he hath not) and Imperfect Juftification , wanting a further Act to make it Plenary (which may remain) But (till it will be more difficult to thew punctually what this Imperfect or Virtual Juftification is.: and molt dif- ficult to thew, Whether with the lofs of Actual Plenary J uftification, and the lofs of a Plenary Right to Heaven, a mans falvation may confift ; that is,. Whether if he fhould die in that condition, he thould be faved or condemned ? Or if it be faid. that he [hallcertannly repent, i . Yet fuch a fuppofltion nay be put, while he yet repenteth not ; for the in- griiry into his ftate ; How far there is any interci- fion ofhis Juftification, Pardon, Adoption or Right to falvation ? z. And whether it can fully be proved that it is impofsible (or that which never was or (hall be) for a Regenerate man to die in the very act ofa grofs fin (as fell-murder or the like ? ) For my part I think God hath purpofely left us here in thedark, that we may not be too bold in finning, but may know that whether . the grofs fins of Belie- vers be fuch as deftroy their Juftification and the right to Glory, prevalently, or not, yet certainly they leave them in the dark, as to any Certainty of their Juftificationor Salvation. And then more dark is it and impofsible todif- cover, How far a man may go in theft greller fins, and yet have the prevalent habits of Grace ? As to the former Queftion about the intercifion of Juni..- fication,
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