The .A1ark! of tbeVnconverted. gularity, indifcretion, and inten1perate zeal : And with them, a lively Preacher, or lively Chriftian, is but a heady fellow. Thefe men love not holinefs as holinefs, (for then they \vou1d love theheight of holinefs,) and therefore an~ undoubtedly rotten at lleart, whatever geod opinion they have of them- , k~e~ _ 7. The refting in acert,tin pitcb.of Religion. When they have io n1uch as will fave then1_(as they fup– pofe) they look no farthe r, and fo fuew themfelves iliort of true grace, which vvill ever put men upon afpiring to farther perfeCtion, Philip.3 .r3. Pro'V.4.18·. ~. The pred(Jminant love of the world. This is the ·· fure evide~ce ofan unfanetified heart, lt!ar. ro. 37· I Job. 2. I). . But howdofe doth this fin lurkoft-times urider a fair covert of forward profefi1on ? Lu~:· s . ·14. ·Yea, , fuch a power ofdeceit is there in ~hisfin, that ma– ny·rirr1es) whenevery body eJfc_can fee the man's _ ~;~ror1dlinefs, nnd e().vetoufnefs, he -~~·uwt fee it hitn-'· feif; bHt hath fo many colours, and excufes, and prerer.ces for his eagernefs on the .world, that he, dothblind his own eyes, ~i)d perifh in his (elf.,deceit .. !-I{YW n1any urofeHbi·s be· h:re , ·with whom the \VOr]d bath ~ore o f tli~ir'hearts and afrections.than, Chrift .? vVho mind earthly things, ~nd thereby are evidently after the :flefh, :· and· like ~o- end in d~Rruction? R<Jm. S. r. Philip: 3~ 'I9· ~·-Ye-c- ~ask the!e men; and they will tell you CODfid~ntly1 they pri~e Chrift above all God forbid elfe ! and fee not thetr . ' . . awn earrhly-mindedn~(c;, for wa;nt of anarrow o~- fervrlti ._'\n of the worktngs of theu'"i ownhearts. Dtd . they b~t carefully fearch, t heywould quiddy find; that ·their e:reateft content is im the world; Luk. I?.. r 9· and.their . gre~tefi: c·are;2:_n~ n1ain eadeavot.yr to get and fecure the \\-·orld ; -·vvhtch are the certain cl.ifcovery ofan unconverted ·finner. May the pt~o- -- fe.fiing
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