Spiritual Peace and Comfort.' 2 o 5 fication, I am fomewhat inclinable to think,That the habit of Faith bathmore to do in our Juf}ification then I have formerly thought, and may as properly be fai1d to be the Condition ás the A a : and that as long as a man is (in a prevaient degree) habitually it Believer, he is not only imperfectly and virtually Juftified, but fo far actually Juflified, that he íhoùld be faved, though he were cut off beforehe actually Repent : And that he being already habitually Peni- tent, having a hatredof all fin as fin, íhould be Pa- ved, if meer want ofopportunity do prevent the act And that only thofe fins do bring a man into a flute of condemnation, prove him in fuch, which confifi not with the Habitual Prehe'»inence of Chrifls intereft in our fouls, above the intereft ofthe flefh and world ; And that `David's and Peter's were fuch as did confifl with the preheminence of Chrifs intereft in the habit, But withal!, that fuch grofs fins mull needs be obfervable, and fo the foul that is guilty doth ordinarily know its guilt, yea and think of it : And that it is inconfiftent with this Habitual Repentance, not to Repent actu- ally as loon as Time is afforded, and the violenceof pafsion fo far allaied, as that the foul may recollect it fell, andReafon have its free ufe : And that he that hath this leafure and opportunity for the free ufe of Reafon, and yet loth not Repent, it is a fign that the intereft ofthe flefh is habitually as well as actu- ally ftronger then Chriffs intereft in him. I fay, in this doubtful cafe, I ammoft inclining to judge thus: But as I would havenoman take this as my refolved Judgement, much lefs as certain Truth, and leali of all, to venture on fmor in penitency ever the more foe
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