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All our present controversy is concerning a visible church, visible saints, visible holiness, visible repentance, visible fitness or qualification for the sacrament; that is, of such external signs and evidences as the Word of God holds out for judging of the spiritual estate of other men, not of such internal gracious marks whereby a man must judge of his own spiritual estate;[1] and so he that professes his sincere repentance for his sins past, and promises newness of life for the time to come, if there be nothing which (visibly and to the eye of man) gives the lie to his profession and promise (for instance, if it can be proved that, immediately before or immediately after, he has professed or promised the contrary to his companions in his wickedness, or that he still continues in the practice of that sin), is not to be excluded as an impenitent sinner from the sacrament.