Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... First, their graces are soon grown up; for a thing superficial is done in half the time that a substantial thing is in working. They get the start: and, while many a true heart before them in the Lord is complaining of wants, and weaknesses, sinful inclinations, usurping in them; they are carried, as it were, per saltum, to their perfection. But as a true birth, though slowly at the first, yet still taketh increase, whereas a mole groweth faster at the first, but soon ceaseth: and look as in nature, things the soonest ripe, are the soonest rotten: So it fareth with these leap-Christians.
Secondly, I say their graces are insincere, their hearts are never purged from some sin which they love and like to live in, for sinister ends entertaining the message of God’s mercy, which is not, that they may reverence him, and serve him all their days without slavish terror: but they gladly hear it, as hoping that they have a protection by it, though they hold on in their own courses. For this it is that the elects faith, which never faileth, is called a faith without hypocrisy; that the true believer is only said to have an honest heart. ...
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Secondly, I say their graces are insincere, their hearts are never purged from some sin which they love and like to live in, for sinister ends entertaining the message of God’s mercy, which is not, that they may reverence him, and serve him all their days without slavish terror: but they gladly hear it, as hoping that they have a protection by it, though they hold on in their own courses. For this it is that the elects faith, which never faileth, is called a faith without hypocrisy; that the true believer is only said to have an honest heart. ...
For more, see:
https://reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/Paul-bayne-on-superficial-graces/