.././INEMNIMIONNNIm Ig Z¡ CHRIST'S Alarm indeed ; for mockers take them to bee of the fame number. So AlexAnder the Copperfinith, had a name a great while, and the enemies of goodneffe perlecuted him even as PAUL ; fo Denote for a time had a name , and was perfeeuted afwell as the Apoftle, till afterwards bee was weary and forfooke him. This is one of your Precifans, this is one of your purer people, this is one of them that call themselves the people of God , Tiefe Are tiro people ofthe Lord, Ezek.36.zo. As a Bat bath a name to bee a Moule, and fo the ]Sirds perticute it, and cannot abide it. Now the point of Doe-trine is this , That it is a horrible thing to rcft in a meere name of being Religious ; it is the ar- gument that C. mitt ufes , to prove that Sardis workes were all fluke naught becaufe they had a meere Naine to live; fo when the Lord would declare how the Jewes were grown to bee fluke naught, lee layes this to their charge, that they had onely a Name to be his people ; They cAll thenefelves of the holy Chit And flAy themfelves upon the GOD of 1 frael, tie Lord of Hefts is his Name, Jtitiah 48.2, That is, f .ey got themfelves a Name to be his people, and there was all ; they had trot the thing it (elk but they tooke the name; Thus he proved them to bee flake naught. The Reafons are ; Firft, this is to bee fartheft off from Re- ligion ; becaufe himfelfe will not , and others can not fo ef- feóually apply to him the rreanes of recovery , bee being in his owne and others judgement a true Convert. As a Sicke man who thinkes him felfe d ell is of all others farthest from cure. Religion is a reall thing, and therefore hee that refts in havürg the Name of it, is fi theft of from it ; as Chrift tàyes of Nathaniel Behold An Ifraelite indeed, in whom k no guile, Job. I..7..So when a man is religious indeed , humble in- deed, feares God ir.deed, this is Religion ; when a man is freed indeed from his uinnes,, and from the power of them, this is R cligion : If do Sonne (hail nuke yam fret, yet /hill be free cxdeed, Job. 8. ;6. Now when a man bath onely the Name, he is farthert of Front this ; Religion is a reall, folid, and Defí.I. Reestri.
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