0}'giving Glory to God. z;I peacewith God , let them come to thelèhos ly myfteries with comfort , notwithflanding any thing before : for God bath prepared thefe things , not for Angels , but for weake men, whoie faith ftands in need to be ftrength- ned. And let us not thinke, that Chriflianity is a matterofcomplement that becaufe we are bap- tifed,and come to heare the Word, and receive the Sacrament , all is well : forwee maydoe all this, and yet be greater finners then Turkes, or Jewes or Pagans ; for the molt horrible fins are Greaten firs committed in the Church. Where is the finne theCh tch. the Church, againft theHoly-Ghoft committedfins again light, and againft confcience, but where the confcience and underftanding is moft enlight- ned ? there be the horrible provoking finnes, where there is more light, and direEtion to live in anotherway. When thegrace of God, and the richesof Chrifb are opened, andyet men live in their finnes againftconfcience, and the light of the Gofpell, fo farre is theoutward perfor- mance from excufing in fickeneffe, and at the houreofdeath , that it aggr..Jates our guiltand damnation, when we make not aright ufeof the holy things ofGod. That which I íhall next ftandupon , íhail be to thew, Howwemay know, whetherwe glorifie God for Chri!,or no. And then the hindrances that keepe us from glorifying God for this excellent good. R And
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