3°42 Generall direllionrs far ,a brethren,fortheir zeale and fervencie in the affaires of God; let them teare thofefacred leaves out ofGodsbleAêd Booke, that fparkle.out unto us the holy fire of forwardneffe and heater and prcffe upon us pun&ually power, fpirit, and . quickning in heavenly bufìneffes, and the Cervices of our moil bountifulland ever-bleffedGod. See Luke i3. 24. Rom. 12. i I. Ephef5. r 5. 1Gfattb.5.29,30. and i I. t a, i Cor.9. 24. I The': 5.22. Phil. t. io. 13. A bare fpeculative oppofition, and verbal! contradi. ¿lion to the comparifons ofthe times and controvertedcere- monies.For I doubt there are fome,who feeingTome ofGods deareft Children, bothgodlyMinitiers, and other Chriffians, onelyout of a tenderneffeof confcience, (land unrefolved a- bout thefe latter; are too well perfwaded of themfelves fpiritually, for a meere boyffrous matlerlike partakingwith them in that particular ; when as they havenopart atll in their holygraces andhumble fan&ificadon. 14. An overheady furious zeale inwill-worfhip, fuper. f lclous formes, and felfe-conceited fervices ; as inPaul, yet unconverted, and many ignorant Papitis, not fo exa&ly ac-. quainted withAntichrittian Schoole-points; in the purfuite ofTome religious diffempers and fpirituall exorbitancies,bred onely in force phantaflicall braine, givenover for horrible pride to thongdelufion; yet tendered withmany holypre tences, and reprefentations of highe(l perfe&ion ; nay Come- times feconded with ((range rebeiations and raptures, the meere juglings of thedevills Angelical!glory inmelancho.. like, or otherwife deluded imaginations : and fo Satan can put a Famihft or Anabaptift even into a trance of(magi. nary joy. t 5. Serious meditation upon the quickning paffage of Chrifis holy Sermon, ofthe fewneffe of thofewhich (hall be latthl.:g. faved, fhouldproperly and naturally keene our defires and endeavours to a fingular confbant contention after an holy ffri&neffe, forwardneffe, and fruitfulneffe in every good worke, and all the wayes of God; that wee might bee fore tobee in the number of thofe few : yet by accident %t
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