comfortable tvalkistg mito God. 303 wretchedly abufed to the devils advantage, and damnation of mess foules. For inflance : Some fucke Poy yout oofthat heavenly flower, Korn. so. 1 ;. j JJ up Name of the Lord shall be Paved : colle&ing and concluding thence, that if they can fay, Lord, Lord, though they be meere f}rangers to the life of Grace ; yet they (hall live for ever. But filch fhould know, that every one who in that Paving fenfecalleth upon the Name of the Lord; muff depart form iniquitie, 2 Tim. 2. 19. and muff favingly beleeve, Rom. 1o. 14. Now filch a fruitful! faith ever purifies the heart, "AF.hr 15.9. and is in reparablyattended with aglori- oustrain of heavenly graces, vertue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godline f , brotherly kiindnefe, charity, 2 Peter s. 5. 6.7. I have heard withmine owne cares, that place, Koine 12.1. fotttfhly perverted, to themaintenanceoflukewarme- ncife,coldne fie in Religion, and good-fellowfhip : When puricie in heart, holineffe oflife, univerfall obedience, and other requifites to falvation have beene preffed ; it hathheen replyed in good earne(l: Iprayyou, why are you fo hot? what needes all this ? what needes fo much adoe, when a reafonable thing will ferve the turne ? Isit not Paid, which is your reafonable fervice ? Now I often wonder what fuch menas thefe meane,who are Proctors and pleaders for this Laodicean refervecl mediocritie and politicke modeìation in matters of heaven ? what worfhip and fervice they would proportion outfor theAll-powerfull God ? doth any man of brame conceive, that the mighty dreadful! Lord, and lodge ofall theworld, who offers unto us by the Miniftery, in the meane time, his owneBeare Sonne, with all the richply.char fes of bis hearts blood ; andwill give us thefull - fruition of himfelfehereafter, with all the glory and endleffe felicities above, will be bob'd off (if I may to fpeake) with an heart- leffeformal! outwardneffe, with acold rotten carkaffe of re- ligion ? It cannot be : Re is a Spirit, snd mull be wor_fbipped in Spirit andintruth. Ifmen will reedes harden themfelves in bitterneffe and blafphemies,againíl thepuritie andpower of godlincffe; ifthey will fill! brow-beate and bearedowne their brethren,
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