r The Life ofFaith. 5 God, and yet fo wilfully difobey him ? that Heaven is Heaven, and yet prefer the worldbefore it ? that Hdl is Hell, and yet will venture upon it for a lutl, or a thing ofnought ? What ! believe that there is at hand a life ofendleCs joy! and no more mind it ! but hate them that fa their hearts upon it ! Do they believe, that except a man be convertedandnew born, he Ad not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven ? as Chrifl hath told than, Moth. 18. 3. John 3. 3, 5. and yet never trouble their minds about it, to try whether they are converted and new born, or not ? Do they believe God, that no man fhad fee him without holinefs ? Heb. 12. 14. and yet dare they be unholy ? and perhaps deride it ? Do they believe that Chriff will come in flamingfire, talking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not theGofpel ofour LordJefus Chriff ; who(hall bepunifh- ed with everlaffing deffrulïion, from the pretence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, z Thcf. 2.8, 9. and yet dare they difobey the Gofpel ! Do they take God for their abló- lute Lord and Governour, while they will not fo much as meditate on his Laws, but care more what a mortal man faith, or what their flefh and carnal reafon faith, than what be faith to them in his holy Word ? Do they take Chrifl for their Saviour, and yet would not be faved by him from their fins, but had rather keep them ? Do they take the Holy GboJt for their Saneifter, while they will not have a fan6'cified heart or life, and love it not in thofe that have it ? Do they take Heaven for their endlefshome and bappinefs ? while they neither mind nor leek it, in comparifon ofthe world ? And do they take the world for vanity and vexation, while they mind and leek it more than Heaven ? Do they believe the communion ofSaints, while they fly from it, and perhaps de- ceit and perfecute it ? Is light and darknefs more contrary than their'words and deeds? And is not HYPOCK IS IE as vifiblc in their praWce, as,Cbrif vanity in their profe)Jion ? It is the complexion of their il;eligion. HYPO C R 1 YE is legibly written in the forehead ofit. They proclaim their fhame to all that they convene with. When they have laid, they believe the life to come, they tell men by your ungodly worldly lives, that they are diflemblers. When their tongue hell loudly laid, that they arc Chriitians., their tongue and H z -hand
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