the Closedis takenof the 'Tabernacle. light in them:Howmany Speakers be there now in theworld, and with what confidence doe theycome unto you ? when this. fpirit'frog on high never carne upon them, they never yet waitedatWifdomsgates, never yet flayed at Jerufälemfor the promife of the Father, but mime before they are feet, and they of themfelves have found a way to be furnifhed : they can goe to the Vniverfity and there lay the foundation , and they can have the laying on of the hands of the Presbyterie,and then they can fludy Authors , and they have wifdon:, and parts, and eloquence of their own; and thus they comefur`- nifhed, and are (as they think) able Mznifiers of the GoJ)iel : Alas poore foules, Chrift cals thefe no otherbut thieves and Robbers which come not in at the doore , they come not in by him , but climb up force other way : Thefe have not made Chrifl thedoore and the way, for didThey but live in the true light, they durft not doe thus ; they durft not fpeak till he had opened thedore, they durft not walk till the fire of .the Sanetuary guided them,till this cloud of ignorance,not ktow, ing thernfelves, nor the work o fChrift, were takenup, elfe they fit frill, And I fay,there would not befo manyfpeakers as there bé, they would not covet fo much to be force body that they may betaken netice of,tobe wife,to be learned,to be boÿ,to be%ober, to be endowed with thegifts of Chrift , as they would be thought to be.All this,isbut putting new wine into oldbottles, and both are l;!r : but if this light ofGod , thisfpirit front o i high, thisfire of theSanctuary were von them, then this new- wine,would be put into new bottles, and both preferved : Oh; my brethren , it woes my very heart to fee how confident and bold men are in their own light., and he that will fay to the contrary, but that 'cis the light ofGod, he muffbe a deceiver,. and he mull be a Schifmatick, a Familif, any thing, yea thee molt odious of all men : Oh that thefe mete did but know fromwhence they (peak : Oh that they did but' know whe- ther they were Mofefes or Magicians, whether fent fromGod or the Divel,whether fromChrift or Antichrift,who indeed fit in the Temple of Chrift, as if Pent from Chrift : Nay, let nie te4l you,they comewith filch deceivableneffe ofunrighteoufnelle, with 93 Pro.8,34 Luke 24. 49. 2 Cor.3.6 john io.i Luk.5.37
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