re p table 4ThingwithGad. - , wretchedly abufed to the devils advantage, and damnation of mens foules.For inflance: Some fucke poyfon out of that heavenly flower,' Rom,10. 13. Whofiever (hall call upon the nameof the Lord, fhall befaved : colleeting, and concluding thence, that if they can fay, Lord, Lord, though they bee meere ftrangers to the life of Grace; yet they fhall live fa. ever. But fuch fhould know, that every one who in that laving fence calleth upon the Nameof the Lord, nosfi depot 5'Oril iniquity. 2 Tim. 2.19. and muff favingly beleeve, Rom. 10. 14. Now Inch a fruitfull faith ever purifies the heart, Aas z 5.9. and is infeparablyattended with'a glorious Caine of heavenly graces, vertue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godlineffe, brotherly kindneffe, charity, z Pet. .5' ,6,7. I have heard with mine owne cares, that place, Rom. 12. I. lot. rifhly perverted , to the maintenance of luke-warrneneffe, coldneffe in Religion, and good-fellowfhip : When purity in heart, holineffe of life, Vniverfall obedience, and other requifites to falvation have beene preffed ; it hath beene re- plyed in good earneft ::I prayyou ' why are you fo hot ? what needs all this ? what needs to much adOe when a reafonable thing will ferue the turne ? Is it not fail, which is your reafonable fervice ? Now I often wonder what fuch menas thefe meane, who are Proetorsand pleaders for rthis Laodicean referved mediocrity and politicke moderation in matters ofheaven ? what worlbipand fervice they ,would proportion out for the All powerfull God? Dothany manof braine conceive, that the mighty 'dreadfull Lord, and Judge of all the world,' who offersunto usby the Miniftery, in the meane time,; his owneBeare Sonne, withall the richOurcha- fesof his heartsblood ; and would give us the full fruition of hinfelfehereafter; with all the glory and endleffe felicities above, will bebobd OWN I may fo fpeake) with an heart- Idffe Formanoutwardneffe, with a cold rotten carkaffeof re- ligion ? It cannot be : He is a Spirit, and Mull be worfhippd, in Spirit andtruth, ". If men will needs' harden themfelves in bitternefre and blafphemies 2 againft the purity and power oi godlincirei if they will mill browbeateand WaredOWne their brethren
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