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By that self-displicency and abasement which it works in the mind on all instances and occasions where it comes short of this holiness.
Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God���s Elect 1616-1683 1965
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A second thing that belongs hereunto is a peculiar remembrance of sin, and converse about it in our minds, with self-displicency and abhorrence.
Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God���s Elect 1616-1683 1965
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Wherefore, although the first act of faith, and its only proper exercise unto justification, does respect the grace of God in Christ, and the way of salvation by him, as proposed in the promise of the gospel, yet is not this conceived in order of time to precede its acting in self-displicency, godly sorrow, and universal conversion from sin unto God; nor can it be so, seeing it virtually and radically contains all of them in itself.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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