The Hidden sorcerer, difcovered. 173 woman; they having a Principle of Freedom, a& an work from this : the one worihips God from an internal Princi- ple, in thepower of the fpirit; the other from an outward compulfory caufe,and not from the power oflove. So likewife thc onedoth all his a&ictns out of love to men, doing good to all men in the world,being willing toferve all out of love ; Pitying all, Counfelling all, willing to help all (fo far as lies in them.) Imitating their Heavenly Father,- whodoth good to all, to the good andevil, jufl andunjuft, andmeerly from a Mat. 5.45 Heavenly Principle ofmercy, pity, and loving kindnfre,, and bowels of mercy. But the other, His Religion confif s in out- wardforms, in wafhings and-clippingsand conformity to Fel- lorvfbips ; and whatever they do, it is not frone thepower of love, or from the nature of their heavenly father in them, but from fonne external caufe, from fomething without them, from fear or hope ; either toprevent forne danger, or to pro- cure fomething which they conceive in a general notion to begood for them, to make them happy and the like; becaufe Hell they hear is a terrible place, and full of Horrour andDe- f?ruelion; andHeaven is a placeofpeace,joy and reft,and there they fhall live for ever in pleafure,which fhall never end ; up- on thefe two grounds mpft men a51, and take up the ftriaeJ$ forms ofWorfhip; and hereupon they may be very confiant, andvery zealous and fncere, as'they conceive when alas, all thefe things arenothing atalijo nor fo ; for. the truth is, Hell they love and live in, and yet knownot that they are in it; and that which is true Heaven to the foule, they hateand run away from, as being the place of mifèry, death, and torments to them. Thereforeye may fee what a miferable delufronand turfed vaile is generally upon the Hearts of moil men, which call themfelves Men fearing God : and that which they call the Worfhip ofGod, is noother but inventi- ons of their own (as they pra&ice them) and W I L WORSHIP: And'though they keep a great deal ofJtirre about Ordinances and breaking of bread : yet alas, how far they are from the Ordinances ofChrift, let the effe&s of their praíliceand lives declare : how little do they feedonChrift as they pretend to do ? He that feedson Chrift, partakes of
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