220 1 CHRIST'S .alarm bùndted degrees farther off ; thou art lò farce off, t ha t thou haft need to halfen quickly,thou haft a thoufand degrees. of re- formation to paffe over, before thou came get ,ó neere as lòrnc of them that are fhort. g, Secondly, Thou art altogether become unprofitable, as the Apoftle ipeakes, Rom.3,I2. Thou art good for nothing, but to doe n >tichief in a Parifh, to infedt,to 1poile youth, to trouble thy wife, and thy Poore Children ; to corupt thy fervants and thy neighbours, to +pill the good creatures of God, to be a very Piave to thy flcfhly -lufls ; others that are well governed in their lives, though they be dead, yet they doe a great deale of good; they help the Saints, they are J fay gotten to /land for good order; but thou art a very burden to all well dif- poled people, the very fhame of the Towne, the difgrace of the family where thou art ; what will, people 1áy, yonder's a Drunkard, yonder goes a Fornicator, a d iffolute fellow, though he be a Gentleman, yet he is fit for none but rogues, and raI cals, and tinkerly companions, a usan that bath but a fpark bf hentlly would be afhatned of hiin ; a Chriflian ? No,he is a very beaf+, he cannot govern himltlfe. But what doe I Eland *riling of' time to (peak again(+ loch wayes which the Apof+le fayes fhould l'carcely bee. named in Chriftians mouthes? The very heathens (hall judge thee'; the Lord open thine eyes, to fee what a curled creature thou art, that thou maift come out of the (hare of the devil. 17 a. This is for the reproof of the Deadncfle that is now among us ; the Lord may fay to us, as he did unto S:ard, J know thy workes, thou haft a name that thou liveñ, and art dead ; for rotwithf+anding the great tneaOes of life, that the Lord hath placed among us, O how does deadneffe of heart reign we are like them the Prophets 1peakes of, that drew nigh to God with their month. And honoured him with their lips, but their heart WS f.ar from him; Match. r ç.8. they had no heart to his holy worihip. So it is with moll ofus ; wedraw nigh to God with our outward man, but our heart is farce from Nina ; no heart to Prayer no heart to tile. word; wee
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