320 On the Excellency of the Soul. them in the Name of -the Lord, they will not hear it : Now God forbid that ever there 1 ouldtee found among any of you fuch wrangling fpirits with the Word of God; . certain- ly God will jullifie the words of bis:fervants,that they fpeak in his Name one day, and will make them good upon you, and theymay lye heavy upon the foul that thall negleh them;but then where there is £rll wrangling at the Word of God, there ufually grows an impudent, proud, tlubborn, calling off the Word ofGod; 4s for the word that thou haft fpoken unto us in the Name of the Lord, wee will not hearken unto thee. , .Why fhould not wee do what wee have a mind to ? why fhould not we take our liberty on the Lords day, as wee .vvere vvont , . and follow our bufxnefs as wee were vvont ? let them fay what they will, wee vvill do as wee were wont to do, and vvee vvill keep our com- pany, as vvee vvere wont: to do ; let them fpeak vvhile their heart akes; this vvas the very guize of this people that made fuch a profeflion before the Lord, but oh the Lord for- bid that it fhould bee fo vvith anv of you. But Seventhly, If thou vvouldefc have thy foul faxed ,. .thou muff take heed of refting upon falfe hopes of thy fat- vation, you mull rafe down even to the very ground alit your falfe hopes of falvation; there is nothing in the world hinders the falvation of fouls more than falfe hopes ; when men dare build their eternal - falvation upon every fleight and vain hope that they hold , The hope of the Hypocrite , the Scripture faith, as like the Spiders -webb, fpun out of thine.ovvii conceits, but every little touch is enough to alike it down again : Oh the poor things that people thus venture their fouls upon;! I fhevved you in the opening of vvhat did caufe the lofs of fouls, that one thing was by venturing, and their vain hopes was one.; now there muff bee ras'd down; you will fay, what are thole vain hopes that muff firth bee ras'd dovvn ? and what do you mean by rating of them down ? That I may fpeak plainly in this thing, that concerns the pooreft and meaneft, that is of the meanefl capacity in the vvo:ld,
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