368 TheGodly are Wa/bedandSanctified. Sac Ë mockingof God, andof this finne thou haft been guiltymany years. Was not that plain mockeryof'Chrift, when they called him King infcorn, and yet at the fame timecrucified him. No Idle is it here, when thou drawdinigh toGod, as if thou worihippedffhim, as if thou wouldft love and obey him, and afterwards liveto his great difhonour. Secondly, Can(der, that what a mandoth inhie allient, ie' in forcefenfe amore re. alldemonfiratiott of a mein then any words or profefons. He is thegreaten andmote reall enemy to God, whofe life is lo, let his outward profelfion be whatit can be. Therefore God at the great day of judgement will proceed according to the works of men. The Lord heretofore complained of thofe that drawed nigh to him with their lips, Ifa. 29.13. dutttheir hearts werefar fromhim ; and that did appear by their lives. Doff thou thinkthe words of prayerwill help thee, when theadi- onsof finne are ready todamn thee ? Wherein can you more really thew what you are, thanbyyour confiant lifeand converfation? Omore blind thanMoles orBats, that fee not chemfelves for the prefent the fire-brands of Hell. What canhide this from thy Confcience ? Is it not too plain, that thy life is the fruit, thy duties are but leaves and bloffoms. Doth not the Husbandman cut down that treefor burning which beareth not fruit, though many leaves. Thirdly, As it is mockery of God, faitsplain,groffe,andpalpable hypocrifie. Pro- phase men are apt to cenfure thole who livemore fiddly, and accurate!: than themfelves as Hypocrites, not confidering in the mean while, that heaven and catch cannot but rake noticeof their Hypocrifie : for what is more palpable than this, in thy wordsand ClrriflianReligion to acknowledgeChriff a Lord and King, but in all thy actions to rebel' againft him : On the Sabbathday to come and outward. ly to bewail thy fins;and the very nextday, or hour, to commit thofe very 'sines again. How can youfo loon forget what you were about? How is it that you fo quickly erotic your prayers and holy duties ? May not Heathens and Pagans derndeyou, when they feeyour ungodly lives? May not they fay, Loe, there is a Chriffian who worfhippethChriti,that commands himnot to (wear, but he will doe it all the day long ? loe, there is a Chriflian, whom Chriff commands, that their hearts fhould not beovec.charged with Drunkenneffe and the caresof this world,but theywill do the clean contrary : What do youkhink God bath forgot- ten your Religious approaches and ingagements, becaufe you have forgotten them ? Fourthly, Reminder thou canfi not alwayes live in this fools paradife. Thou canifnot alwayesbe in this fond dream of happineffe and felicity ; but Gcd at laft will bring thee CO thetouch,ffone, and thy reward (hall beaccording as thou arr. Thus he that doth wickedly may fora while account himfrlf hippy; yet this will quickly melt, when deathcomes, when the day of judgement comes, then it will be fully difcovered, that thole finnes and heaven can nomore nand together, than light and darkneffe. Then God will tell you, Depart 7014 workerr of iniquity; there is a great gulf betweenmercy and you. ()lichen rated upon thyfell and fay, Why duel all this ? I live thus againft Gods Law, and yet pleafe my felf with thoughtsof peace and bappineffe, howcan it be ? you mull have another way to heaven, then ever the Biblebath yet difcovered. Ufe zd. of Inffruthon, That nothing in all the Cbrifiian Religion, ifduely vie z. confdered, doh at ah incourage to any finne. If any thing might imbolden a man, it mightbe thought the mercy and goodneffe of God,the freeneffeand falsefle of Grace: but as for the former, There is forgivenefje with thee, that thou avaifi de feared, faith thePfalmiff, Pfal. a ;e. 4. and asfor the latter, with whatholy indig- nationdoth the Apoffleargue againft thole that from thefreene(fe ofgrace, would argue a liberty tofinne , asif the plenty of the one would incourage to multiply the other,Rom. 6. a. IF then everything in theBible, if every thing in the true ChriffianReligion, be thus'an antidote againft finne, aprefervative from it, How incurably wicked mute they needs be, thatby thofe holymotivesareyetnotmade holy ?
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