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12 as we told you, we proposed to do, and shall the Lord will enable) open the Second Head, for ther declaring who are his people; to wit.

These, as we were saying, who have made a covenant with him by sacrifice, to be accepted thro’ the sacrifice of his Son, and who sacrifice way themselves unto him. In a word, it is they who are righteous, and who live righteously. They who are righteous, are these who have fled Christ for his righteousness, and have gotten themselves clothed therewith. But that ye may more clearly take up, who these are that come to Christ; before we give you some marks of those and some rules how to apply these marks, we first declare who it is that come not.

First, These come not unto Christ, who cannot from all sin. Ezek, xviii. 21. 'But if the wicked will turn from all sins that he hath commission and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall die.’ Ye see the condition, it is if ye will take from all sin, both omission and commission; from all sin, unto all duty; leaving all sin, and taking; all Christian duty. Therefore remember, if ye entertain any one idol that will keep Christ out. Many say of some idol-sin, that they do not quit, Lot said of Zoar, ‘It is a little one, therefore let me brook it,’ but remember what David says, ‘I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will hear me,’ Psal. Lxvi. 18. Remember this and destroy not yourselves, ye who follow not-gross swearing, drinking or whoring, and the like, yet cling unto your pretty mincht-oaths, and your idle discourse, and your light conversation. O remember this, ye who have any predominate, whose hand ye clap; your right-hand and your right-eye it must be cut off, and plucked out, before ye enter into the kingdom of heaven: I say, if ye