306 GeneraII direr` ionsfor Hebb 2.14.. pill honefly never brought anyuntoHeaven. And every luke- warmeProfeffor fhallcertainely bee fpued out ofthe mouth ofChriff. 6. But amonga all theunfound grounds,infufficient mat; ter, and falfe mediums, vpon which Satan, and the deceitful! heart labour to ere their rotten buildingsofvainehopes in the credulous conceits of thofe , who are carried hood- winkt towards Hell-; all which in the time oftrial! , and un- der the tempeff of Gods vifiting wrath , will proove but a lob s.4,15. Spiders web. They (halt leave 'Ion their bottle , but it fholli not _Hand; they !ball holdit foft, but it!hall not endure, I fay, a- menet them all there is not any that doth fet on the coun- terfeite feale ofthis falfe perfwafion with more peremptori- \mire and confidence , then a concurrence of tholeexcellen- cies, perfeetions, endowments incident toTemporaries, and attaineable in the fiate of unregeneration ; which I have touched in my Difeourfi ((truehappinnefe, and may bee col- le&ed from fuch places as thefe, Matth. 37.3,4. Mark. 6. zo. Luke 13 26. and 18.I 1,12.Matth. I 2.53. and 25.1,8ze.Heb. 6. 4, 5. 2.Pet. 2. 20 22. Now tilde and the like, are the unfound, feeming, and un- fufficient grounds whereupon the Devil' workes; and doth eafily by the aide ofnaturall prefumption , andhis owneAn- gelicall flathes,infinuate, and inferrehis foulecoozening con- dufions , and cunningly infufe thepoyfonoffpirituall felfe- deceitthus,or in the like manner : f I will give infiance onely in thekit ; he is wont alfoproportionably from the ref}, to conclude fuch groundleffe confidence, and falfe perfwafions ofagoodeilate towards God.) Whofoever cloth with fome penitent remorfe tremble un- der the revenging vvrath ofGod for, fin, and out ofthat hot.- ~tor confeffeth andmakethreflitution (and yet fo did /t4das, Mat. 27.'). Whofoever reverenceth agodly Miniaer, hems him gladly, anddoth many things after his dot:trine : (and yet fo did Herod, Mark. 6.2o.) VVhofoeverdoth hold conformi- tie inprofeffion with thebefi,&c. (andyet fo did the focal irgt s, at.t5.)W__h_ocoe'v_er is an 11_car_c_r t_hg. _W___-"dlahnadt
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