22 ?'be Vailfpreadover All Nation:, and i . deliverer, and he was their Captain,and their Conquerer : that he alone was their leader, their guide, their teacher: And that all teàchers were but Deluders, $outhfayers, Lyars and Deceivers, but onely Him : they can call no man Mafier and Mat: 23.9 Father upon earth, forone is their Mal er and Father, which is Chrift alone : As Paul faith, he receivednot his Gofpelof man Gal. 1.12. or by man, but by the revelation ofjefusChrift: fo they receive not their power, not their wifdome, nor their teaching of, orfromman, but onely -by and from Jefus Chrift alone. vfe. 2. Thenalto, in the next place, let us farther make this Llfe of this point,to take noticeof the mifery anddefperate con- ditionofall men by nature, what a deluge ofdeftru&ion is upon them, becaufe of theface of the Covering of all people, becaufe they leekhelp, and f}rength, and riches, and glory, and wifdome in other mountains betides this Mountain,be- caufe they find ftrength,and wifdom,and reft,and rejoycing, and feafting in their own mountains: And themore comfort and delight men take in their own wifedome, orholineffe, .or the like, fo much the more miferable, fo much the far- ther from the Kingdom ofHeaven ; when men look upon themfelves as being f{ri& or holy more then others, becaufe they areunderfuch and fuch forms, fuch rules, and are fo conformable to the word and mind ofChrift, and here fo- Luk. 17. lace and feat} themfelves, and cry, Loe here is Chrift, and 21 there is Chrift, in this form, or that fellowfhip, and think therefore they are in a fafe condition, but it will go ill with Efa, 65:5. all others, Rand fartheroff, Iam holier then thou: The dan- geroufneffe of thefe mens condition , I fay, you maydifco- ver from theprefent point, when they makeany other thing their rock, or their mountain but Chrift alone ; when they think they can guide themfelves, provide for themfelves, teach themfelves, thefe are in a very miferable condition, thefe are thofeofwhichChrift faith, go not after them, for so k. ' 2' they are deceivers and deluders ; for the Kingdome of God corned, not withobfervation, as they fay, by obferving this rule and this form, or that fellowfhip, or any way that man hath found out tocover himfelfewithall. All thefeare but fig-leaves, which will not bear out the wrath ofGod, thefe are
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