\>, Spiritual Peace and Comfort: 239 Profeffors that never tryed it, did never well underfland it. I could find in my heart to be Inge in explaining and applying it, but thati have been fo large beyond my firft intentions in the for- mer Direaions, that I will cut off the reft as fhort as I well can. Let none be fo wickedly injurious to me, as to fay I fpeak or think of any Merit, properly fo called in any the cofilieft work of man : Fallen not that on me which I both difchdm, and defire the Reader to take heed of'. But I mull tell you thefe two things : r. That a cheap Religion is a far more uncer; tain evidence of fincerity, then a dear. it will not difcover fo well to a mans own foul, whether he prefer Chrift before the world, and whether he take him and his Benefits for his Portion and Trea- fure. 2. That a cheap Religion is not ufually accom-- panied with any notable degree of Comforts, al- though the perfon be a fincere-hearted Chriftian. Every Hypocrite can fubmit:to a Religion that will coil him little much more which will get Re- putation with men of greatell Wifdom and Piety : Yea he may flick to it, fo it will not undo him in the world. ¡fa man have knowledge, and gifts of utterance, and flrengthofbody, it is no coftly mat.: ter to fpeak many good words, or to be earneft in oppofing the fins ofothers, and to preach zealoufly and frequently (much more if he have double ho-, nour by it, Reverent Obedience, and. Maintenance, as Minifters ofthe Gofpel have, or ought to have.) It is hard to difcern fincerity in fuch a courfeofPiety and
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