330 Excel inGoodnefs, &c. of Etyma, 4th. t 3. 8, io. [ O fall of subtlety and all mifchiefr, thon child of the devil and enemy of411 righteoufnefs, milt thon not ceafe to pervert the right ways of the Lord? Satan would never transform. himfelf into an Angel of Light, nor his ministers into the Minders of Righteoufnefs ; nor would Pharifees and hypocrites cover oppreffon by longprayers, if Light, Righteoaarners, and long pray7 ers, were not laudable in themfeiv:s, and ner ceffary in the preachers of the word of God, and had not a goodnefs in them capable of being a cloak to their iniquity. s Cor. ix. 14, x5. Mat. 23. 14. God ù Light. i Joy. i . 5. And God is Holy : If therefore Satan or any hypocrite would credittheir falíhood and wickednefs, they mutt pretend to Light and Holinefs : And he that will keep up the true honour of his Miniftery , and be accepted with God, and reverenced by good men; matt do it by real Light an'l Holine%s. An ungodly Minií?er hath a radicated eiamity to the holy do&rine which he preacheth , and to theholy duties and life which he exhorteth the people to : And how well, how Gncerely , how readily, how faithfully, they are like to do the work which they are enemies to, you may eafily judge. The carnal mind is enmity to God : for it is not fubjeE to his lax, nor indeed can he. Rom. 8. 6, y, 8. I kn. v that they are not enemies to the honour nor to the maintenance : and therefore may force themfelves to do mach of the outlideof the work : But where there is an inward enmity to the life and ends of it, we can expe& but a for- mal, unwilling, and uncon(ìant difcharge of fuck unpleafing daty. Troth is for G odnefs : The KnoiY
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