comfortable walkiNgwith God. 295 iiprs.1111011111.0a them, the Devi 11 was their father. Ver_e 44. And fo areall thole who build onely upon the outward priviledges of Chriflianitie,without perfonall a puritie Teudin the ifateof Pharifaifme ; and fo are all thole, whowanderingout ofthet'Athq::ed,stk. path which is called Holy, fwell with a proud opinionative- is:18. kh3.36., neffe and furious zeale , above the bankes of Godsbleffed Prayer Booke i ehe Booke, and bounds ofall holy difcretion, and will needs foare rmerinnnediatr- aloft on waxen wings of felfe-conceitedneffe, and faperfici4-"""fe-16"6 alneffe, to ftrange and uncouth heights of excellent fancies, without having ever laid found foundation in true humiliati- on for fin, and in felfedeniall : the Church ofLaodicea,Revel. 3. 17. and all Inch lukewarmeProfeffors. Henceweehave a talk, what a worldofpeople are wofully blindfolded by the Prince ofthis World; and through the infinuating impofture, andunexamined delufionoffpirituall felfe-deceit, areput in- to a fooles paradife, ofbeeing already fafe and fecure for Hea- ven ; whereas as yet they are: tneere flrangers to theMyflery ofChrift, and the Newcreation ; and fhall bee certainely dam- ned, it they fo continue : for that which is highly efieerned a- ?none men, is abomination in the fight ofGod, faith Chriff to the felfe-juilifyingPharifes, Luke z 6. i 5. And yet Come forts of vnregenerate men arc here to bee excepted from this generall deluge offelfe-delufion ; who lye not fo groffely inwrapped in the juggling mills of the devils Angelicall glory. Not that they are better then tholedelu- ded Ones, or have they good affurance upon found undecei- ving groundsoftheir fpirituall well-being,(for fuch an hum- ble true perfwafion, is confined onely to true Converts ) but it happens by accident, that by reafon either ofthe extreme villany oftheir lives , or delperate pofitions oftheir Anti- chrifliandoarine , they fee cleare reafons (land like an armed man in their, convinced confciences that ifthey continue in their forlorne courfes, they cannot potliblybe bayed ; or faine reafon&& coinediftindions,uponpurpofe to exclude all from any infallible certaintyof falvation. They are fuch as thefe : 1. Groffe hypocrites, whodeceive others, but not their ownehearts, as Ada. a. Thofe
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