Reply.
1. Concedo totum. I never intended to speak otherwise: When I said, [It is a question which will be decided, when I speak of the extent of the Com∣mand or Rule,] I intended the confuting more fully of them that are otherwise-minded, and not to make it doubtful.
2. Yet upon review, as the words lie, I must maintain the Negative in some sense. For the doubt is, Whether all this Imperfection be sinful? But as it is imperfect participativè & efficienter, so it is not sinful: For so it is considered only as an imperfect work of God's Spirit, that is, a work which he hath begun, but not yet finished: And as so related to him it is not sinful; for he was not bound to perfect it sooner, or to sanctifie us all at once in perfection.