thus, both repentance and remission of sins to be offered to
Jerusalem; not remission without repentance: for all that repent not
shall perish, let them presume on grace and the promise while they
will; Luke xiii. 1-3.

Presumption, then, is that which severeth faith and repentance,
concluding, that the soul shall be saved by grace, though the man was
never made sorry for his sins, nor the love of the heart turned
therefrom. This is to be self-willed, as Peter has it; and this is a
despising the word of the Lord, for that has put repentance and faith
together; Mark i. 15. And "because he hath despised the word of the
Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut
off: his iniquity shall be upon him." Numb. xv. 31.

Let such therefore look to it, who yet are, and abide in their sins;
for such, if they hope, as they are, to be saved, presume upon the
grace of God. Wherefore presumption and not hearkening to God's word
are put together; Deut. xvii. 12.

Again, Then men presume when they are resolved to abide in their
sins, and yet expect to be saved by God's grace through Christ. This
is as much as to say, God liketh sin as well as I do, and careth not
how men live, if so be they lean upon his Son. Of this sort are they
that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity; that
judge for reward, and teach for hire, and divine for money, and lean
upon the Lord; Mic. iii. 10, 11. This is doing things with an high
hand against the Lord our God, and a taking him, as it were, at the
catch. This is, as we say among men, to seek to put a trick upon
God, as if he had not sufficiently fortified his proposals of grace
by his holy word, against all such kind of fools as these. But look