17o A The Secret Southfayer, or felfe ; and how exalt were they in performing them ? even far beyond theflriltffl nowadayes,ofall thofe things (they fay)are Ordinances ; and yet they arenot fure they are fo ; though they cry out The Temple of the Lord, The Temple of Jer.7. 4. the Lord, and call for the wayes ofChrift, and the rules and mincie ofChrift,yet howfharplydoth Chriíl fall upon them, Mat. 23. and call them Hypocrits, and painted Sepulchres, and blind 27. & 15. leaders ofthe blind ; nay, and calls them Devils for all their 14. flriíinefJè; le are ofyour father the Devil and his works and Joh.8.44 his willye doe, in all this that ye pretend to ferve God by For in all this wherein they Teem fo help, and firic`1, and to furpaffe and outrun all other men , 'tis onely the Devil that carries them out in their own power, and the fruit of it is nothing elfe but to glory in men and in the flcfh. The I Cor. 3. fewes they had an outward and worldly fanl7uary, and a 21. formalworfhip, and this they boafied of and gloried in ; And fo tis now, men have taken up Tome things equivalent,, and like unto thefe; For now Satan appears in things that men call ORD I NANCES, .,.s outward wafhings,and in call this the true baptifme and Church -order and Fellow- íhips, and fay this is according to the rule of the Gofpel, and partaking of Bread andWine in the Sacrament, they call this the eating of the Body and drinking of the Blood of Chrill. Now in nothing Both theDevil more delude men then in thofe things,calling them theOrdinances ofChriff,when in- deed they arenot. As you fee how the Jews flood upon it & jufifted themfelves, that they were the true Jèed ofAbraham; when he told them of being made Freemen, and would have convinced them oftheir unknown bondage, they an- fwered,. We are Abrahamsfeed, andwere never in bondage to h. 8.33 any ; and howfayeft thou,yefhall be made free ? Now indeed' there was a kind oftruth in it, that they were the fiefhly' feedofAbraham, and they had fubmitted to Circumcif,-on and to thofe external rules commanded ; and this Teemed tobe fomewhat, as to outward appearar,cc, as ifthey were the truefeedofAbraham: but that was not it : and they had Circumcfion, andyet were not Circu:o:cifed in heart ; neither were theyhis true feed. And
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