Chap.i 6. r9nExpôftiot upon the go .b.41off',, Velf.17. 33 t Secondly, Obferve. It ispoffible to live without any knownfin. Job knew ofno inju(lice in his hand; nor was heconfeious ofany impurity in his prayer. The Apòf§le John' writes to Saints dal! Ages and Statures, under the title of Hit little Children, not to fin, i John 2.1. And in that he doth not on ly admonifh them ofwhat they ought not todoe, but of what they might attain not to do : For though, hethatfaith he bath no fin,deceives himfelf; and fins in Paying fo, i Job. z. 9. yet it may be laid ofTome without fin , and they ( in jobs cafe may fay it of themfelves without fin,that they finnot. The beg Saints have, and know they have fin in their natures and fin in their lives, yea , and, fometimes they fall into great fins.; yet fetch a degree of holinefs is attainable in this life that aman may be Paid; not to fin : For then (in a Gofpel fenfe) we are faid not *to fin, when we Oaf); off and are free from all grofs and fcandalous fins , and do both carefully avoid and make confcience of the leafi and the moti fecret fin. Zachary and Elizabeth, Luke i,< x6. were both righteous beforeGod , walla ing in all the Commandments andOrdinancesof the Lord blames Left ; that is, They did not live in any open or known fin ; they lived fo, that no man could blame them, or bring any juil complaint against them , either in matters of morality which feem to be meant in the word Commandment, or in matters of worfhip, which feem to be meant by the word Or dinance. And when`I (peakófnot living, in any known fin, I' meannot only, that Saintsmay rife fo high as not to live in any fin which the world takes notice of; but they may, yea and oftendoarrive at that hight of holinefs, not to live in any fin known to themfelves ; ifonce a true Believer díff covers fin, he cannot own it,' m'úch lets live in it , be it in- jtitice of wrong towards men, be it any tailing in the war'. fhipand fervice ofGod, he will not fuffer it to lodge with him. He that hathgrace in his heart , cannot live with inju- (lice in his hand ; there is an inconfulence between thefe two, a life ofgrace, and' to live in fin. "Sin inay be much . alive in h?m`that hath grace,''but he cannotlive in fn; he may be of- ten tempted to thea4 ofit, and fometimes poffrblyovertaken with'it,yet hé cannot live init ;He cannot keep; injufl;ice inhis hand nor frame an impure prayer in his`heart. Agoodman U ti 2 Tar
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