l people unto. For of light came sight;
and of sight came sense and sorrow; and of sense and sorrow came
amendment of life. Which doctrine of repentance leads to justification;
that is, forgiveness of the sins that are past, through Christ the alone
propitiation, and the sanctification or purgation, of the soul from the
defiling nature and habits of sin present, by the Spirit of Christ in the
soul; which is justification in the complete sense of that word:
comprehending both justification from the guilt of the sins that are
past, as if they had never been committed, through the love and mercy of
God in Christ Jesus; and the creature's being made inwardly just, through
the cleansing and sanctifying power and Spirit of Christ revealed in the
soul; which is commonly called sanctification. But none can come to know
Christ to be their sacrifice, that reject him as their sanctifier: the
end of his coming being to save his people from the nature and
defilement, as well as guilt of sin; and, therefore, those that resist
his light and Spirit, make his coming and offering of none effect to
them.

From hence sprang a second doctrine they were led to declare, as the mark
of the prize of the high calling to all true Christians, viz. Perfection
from sin, according to the scriptures of truth; which testify it to be
the end of Christ's coming, and the nature of his kingdom, and for which
his Spirit was and is given, viz. to be perfect as our Heavenly Father is
perfect, and holy, because God is holy. And this the apostles laboured
for, that the Christians should be sanctified throughout in body, soul,
and spirit; but they never held a perfection in wisdom and glory in this
life, or from natural infirmities, or death, as some have, with a weak or
ill mind, imagined and insinuated against them.

This they called a redeemed state, regeneration, or the new birth:
teaching everywhere, according to their foundation, that unless this work
was known, there was no inheriting of the kingdom of God.

Thirdly, this leads to an acknowledgment of eternal rewards and
punishments, as they have good reason; for else, of all people, certainly
they must be most miserable, who, for above forty years, have been
exceeding great sufferers for their profession; and, in some cases,
treated worse than the worst of men; yea, as the refuse and off-scouring
of all things.

This was the purport of their doctrine and ministry; which for the most
part, is what