18ó C H RI S T'S Alarm a. them one whtt.I will declare thy righteoafnef fe and thy works, for they Pall net profit thee, J fa. 57.1s. Thou prayeft and doef many good duties, and fo thou getteR thy fé, fe a name; yea but if thou doeft not tóuundly and throughly anfwer that name , God will declare all thy Righteoufneffe and all thy profefpion, and all thy good duties, and none of them all "hall profit thee ; In that day bee thall declare what rotten things they have been, how heartleffe, howiiveleffe, how dead -hear- ted all thy duties have been, and they (hall doe thee no good ; and indeed what good can a Name doe a man ? True faith alone does j ufhfie, not the name of it ; true peace of Confer- ence does comfort, not the name of it.; true intereft in God gives a man a chearfull acceffeto God, not the name of it. Eighthly, it is not onely unprofitable , but alió it is hurt - full. It is hurtful" unto others ; a bare Name J fay without fèbftance and truth is hurtfiill unto others. It is hurtful" unto them that are without ; for when they fee hove lazy filch as gce for Profelfours , be, how they have little cite in them but talking and profeffing , and prating and hearing ; other - wife they are as vaine and as covetous and as having as o- ther men , no firi &neffe, no purenetfe, no holineffe, no hum - bleneffe of mind no love, no forgiving one another, no for- bearing one another, no brotherly kindneffe , no Union nor Communion, no polver in their Prayers , no gravity nor aü- thority in their fpeeches , no heavenlineffe- in'their Converfa- tion- nobrokennefle of heart, this hardens the hearts of 'them that are Without , and makes them all tlrinke that Religion is a matter of nothing ; thus they doe a great deale of hurt unto others ; the profeffing Wife to the prophane Husband the profelling Servant to his prophane -Mafler , the profe(fing Neighbr ur to his prophane neighbour ; whereas if they were godly indeed, and humble indeed, and as their Name does im- port indeed, they would doc a great deale of good, but now they doe a great deale of hurt. Agame, they doe a great deale of hurt unto commas on ; many a man that is írnitten at the Word , that beg.,ns Refor-
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