1006 / 1054
628
.Ilow
p-rofefforr
are
faid
toloofe
theirfavour.
grow barren
by
it,
certainly
there
is
a
curie
on
that ground
that
hath
fait thus fown on
it
,
and .there
is a
curie
on this
heart
that
lives
under the
Ministry
of
the
word
, and have
thefe
bief-
fed
truths preached to
them,
and
yet be barren. Now
it
follows.
If
Salt
Lath
1
fl
hi,
favour,u
herew;
th
J
,:1'
it.
de
feafoned,
Now
this
is
applicable
either to
profefl'ors
of Religion that
do
in
their degree
carry about with them the
truths
of the Gor-
pd,
Luk, 14.
z 5.
compared with verf.
3s.
Or
to Minifters
if
they
have
'Off
their
{avor,wherewith (hall
it
be.
falted:
To
fpeak
briefly
of the words in reference
to
profefíòrs
of
Religion,who
have
underfianaing
of many
truths
or
theGofpelx
and
for
a
time
doth hold them forth
and
imbrace
them, and
have
been
of
very
good
ufe
in former
time
in
the Towns,
Parishes,
and
in
families, where they
have.
lived ,, they
have
been
as
fait,
many
have received great benefit
from
them
by-
that knowledge
that they have,
andtby
the excellent gifts
filar
they
had
through the
Gofpél,
but yet
fome
of them
lofe
their
fas>or
;
Where
there
i:s
true
grace
in
the
hearty
that
will
never
be
loft,
but where
many
truths
and
gifts come
by
the
Gofpel
they
may
be loft, and many
that
have
been
profeflórs.
of
Re-
ligion
have
loft.their
favor, that
is
they
were very full of
fer-
ventnefs
and
zeal,
and
heat
in
their duties
and
performances,
none could
cone
amongft
them but
found
their hearts
better'd
by
them then
they
were before
,
but
now
they
have
loft
their
favour,
now
there
is no
fuck
vigor and livelinefs, but now
they
.
are
grown flat
and cold-,
flat
in
their duties,
formal
in their
ways, there,
e,
is little
good to
be
gotten
by
them or expected
from
the,
a,when
you
do
converfe with them,many
of them
are
grown
unfavory
,
they
have
mingled
bafe lulls
with
their
pro
-
féffion and zeal, and
have
loft the power of
it,
they
are grown
earthly,
their
corruptions have prevailed
over the
fart,
though
they-for
a
while Seemed to
-be
kept
down,
yet afterward
they
had
got
1
ower.
over
thole
truths that
they
had
in
their
unde!
(landings,
'and
that
they
bo
Ten]
y
profefíed,their
corruption