Chap. i 2 about Apofiacre, or Falling away. I o3 Paid of the Jewes, Ads zx. 27. when we enjoy excellent mcanes, and profit nor by them. 2. An atvkardne{fe andlifllefnefi'e to the wàyes of Jefus Chri(}, as isfaidof the Jewes, Cellar. 15. S. when we go about duties as having no heart to them. 3. Senfelefneffeof confcience, when it feels not little fins, and is little fen- fible of great ones. 4. Coldneffe and lukewarmneffeof affebiions : when we neither pray, nor hear, &c. with aff elions : we can finde mares upon otheroccafions but not for our fins : Our l ove waxes cold,as foretold,cíllat. 24.12. 5. Weaknefle, and faintneflèof endeavours : as Soloman faith, Pray. 13:4. we would feigne have heaven and falvation, but we will not be atpaines, and cofi togetit, far unlike to JahnBaptifts hearers, ATat. 11.12. 6. Dulneflè and drowfineife of the whole man ; though we are very careful, and indufirious about the world, yet we are extream careleffe of our foules ; If our hearts were contrite we fhould foonbe quickned, /R. 57. r5. Secondly. confider that fo long as we are dead hearted, we cannot pray. Implied, Pfal. So. 1S. nor hear profitably, implied by Chrift , Mar. 1t. 16,C c. Thirdly, whilefi we aredead we can have no comfort, no affurance to our foules, that we have the truth ofgrace in us. When Chrill gives grace, he is Paid to quicken that man, John 5. zr. True repentance is from dead works, and unto life. Faith is not faith if it do not quicken. Hence Galar. Our finnes are not forgiven; if we be not quickened,. col. 2.13. Fourthly, we cannot grow ingrace except we are quickned ; Implied, 1lofea 14.7. the Philippians love to Paul was dead till it was quickened, and then it flouriIlxd, Phil. 4.1ó. Fifthly, as long as we are dead, we fhall be fofar from growing that we fhall not be able to keep our own. Hence Rev. 3. z. Such men pine away, as 6'- z-h. 3 3, io. And no marvel, when it makes them negledi the meanes to keep life in them. Sixthly, this fin of deadneffe is worfe then other fins, and that in fix re- fpe&s. 1. Other fins for 'the moti part are but in one part of a man : as pride in the heart, drunkenneffe in the appetite, &c. but deadneffe is in the whole man : It heaps all miferies upon a man, as Rev. 3. 17. Such a man is like Judah. Ifa. 1. 6. hash no found part. Its like the deluge, that drowned the whole world. 2. Other fins are againli one or twoof the Commandments : but deadneffe is againftall : Its a fin againft prayer, hearing, all Ordinances and Sabbaths : For in all thefe we fhould have life. 3. This finis deeper in the foul then any other fin A man will be wil- linger to part with any fin thendeadneffe, and to take up any duty thenquicken- ing: Judahwas content to turne to God, but not with herwhoa: heart, Jerem, 3. to. 4. Other fins may be but ad}s, and we may not have an habit of them, as we fee in Noah, Lot, David, v c. But deadneffe is an habit, Eph. Z.1. and an efface of fin is worfe then any a&offin. 5. Other fins are the first death of the foul : we are all by nature the chil- dren of wrath, andwere once dead : but if after we are Chriftians we grow dead again, we are twice dead : and it cauferh the fecond death, not ofdamnation,but of beingdead after we are quickned. Sixthly, though Godthreatens hell and damnation againtt other fins, yet more efpecially againft deadneffe, when we receive not the truth in the love of it: 1 VI, VI,
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