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THE
Counterfeit
Christian
;
OR
,
The
Danger
of
Hypocrisy
:
Opened
in
TWO
SERMONS
.
Containing
an
EXPOSITION
of
that
Parabolical
Speech
of
our
Blessed
Saviour
,
Matth.
xii
.
43
,
44
,
45.
When
the
Unclean
Spirit
is
gone
out
of
a
Man
,
&c.
By
BENJAMIN
KEACH
,
Author
of
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Pastor
of
the
Church
of
Christ
meeting
on
Horsly-down
in
Southwark
.
Ezek.
33.
31.
And
they
come
unto
thee
as
the
People
cometh
,
and
they
sit
before
thee
as
my
People
,
and
they
hear
thy
Words
,
but
they
will
not
do
them
:
for
with
their
Mouth
they
shew
much
Love
,
but
their
Heart
goeth
after
their
Covetousness
.
Mat.
23.
25.
Wo
unto
you
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
Hypocrites
.
2
Pet.
2.
21.
For
it
had
been
better
for
them
not
to
have
known
the
way
of
Righteousness
,
&c.
London
printed
,
and
are
sold
by
John
Pike
at
the
upper
end
of
Bread-street
,
just
by
Cheap-side
;
and
by
the
Author
at
his
House
near
Horslydown
in
Southwark
,
1691.
Price
stitch'd
6d
.
To
the
Reader
.
IT
is
more
than
a
Year
since
,
I
began
a
Morning-Exercise
on
the
Lord's-Day
at
seven
a
Clock
,
when
I
entred
upon
an
Exposition
of
all
the
Parables
and
express
Similitudes
contained
in
the
four
Evangelists
,
according
to
the
measure
of
Light
and
Knowledge
received
;
though
by
reason
of
a
Journey
into
the
Country
it
has
not
been
continued
.
The
Explication
of
this
Parabolical
Speech
of
our
Saviour
,
I
have
been
prevailed
with
to
make
publick
.
And
if
this
meets
with
Acceptance
,
I
may
in
a
short
time
publish
Proposals
for
printing
the
whole
;
which
in
regard
of
the
greatness
of
the
Charge
,
cannot
be
done
but
by
Subscriptions
.
And
though
I
must
confess
my
Ability
to
perform
so
great
a
Work
to
be
much
inferiour
to
many
others
;
yet
by
God's
Assistance
I
shall
do
what
I
can
.
And
the
Consideration
of
the
kind
Acceptance
my
other
Labours
have
had
amongst
God's
People
,
has
caused
me
to
take
the
more
pains
:
God
having
blessed
the
Writings
of
divers
of
his
Servants
to
the
Conversion
of
many
Souls
,
and
Comfort
of
others
;
yet
if
I
have
not
sufficient
encouragement
from
Christian
Friends
,
I
must
desist
this
great
Essay
.
Reader
;
The
second
Sermon
I
have
much
enlarged
,
scarcely
half
of
it
was
delivered
when
preach'd
,
thinking
to
have
preached
a
third
time
upon
the
Text
,
but
was
prevented
by
laying
down
that
Lecture
,
for
the
Reason
afore-mentioned
:
Neither
have
I
been
so
large
on
other
Parables
already
opened
,
nor
intend
to
be
on
those
I
purpose
to
explain
;
so
that
the
first
Sermon
is
rather
a
proper
Specimen
of
the
whole
Work
than
the
second
.
As
touching
some
part
of
this
dark
Parabolical
Saying
of
our
Saviour
,
I
may
differ
in
my
Conceptions
,
't
is
probable
,
from
divers
Men
;
〈…〉
inclined
,
't
is
like
,
to
believe
that
the
Man
,
or
Men
here
mentioned
,
are
such
only
that
Satan
overcomes
,
after
they
have
made
a
profession
of
Religion
,
with
the
same
scandalous
Sins
,
and
so
they
turn
with
the
Dog
to
their
old
Vomit
.
I
grant
this
may
be
true
in
respect
of
some
of
them
;
yet
I
do
not
believe
the
Lord
Jesus
intends
to
shew
hereby
they
do
all
after
manner
fall
from
their
〈◊〉
Religion
and
Profession
:
'T
is
evident
to
me
,
he
applies
it
to
the
Pharisees
,
and
other
People
of
that
Generation
;
but
many
of
them
never
became
openly
Prophane
,
yet
was
their
State
worse
by
many
degrees
,
(
than
whilst
they
abode
under
the
Power
of
gross
and
scandalous
Sins
)
and
died
in
their
Vnbelief
and
Hypocrisy
,
which
't
is
to
be
feared
many
now
do
.
If
the
Scope
of
the
〈◊〉
,
be
considered
,
That
our
blessed
Saviour
designed
by
this
Parable
to
see
〈◊〉
the
State
of
the
Pharisees
,
is
evident
,
as
may
be
seen
if
you
begin
at
the
24th
Verse
of
the
Chapter
,
where
they
charged
him
with
casting
out
Devils
by
B●●lzebub
the
Prince
of
the
Devils
.
From
whence
his
〈◊〉
an
occasion
to
set
forth
the
sadness
of
their
Conditions
,
〈…〉
Zeal
and
outward
Sanctity
,
shewing
〈◊〉
Vers
.
33
,
34
,
35.
that
their
Hearts
were
not
made
good
,
but
like
an
Evil
and
corrupt
Tree
.
Then
soon
after
follows
these
words
,
When
the
Unclean
Spirit
is
gone
out
of
a
Man
,
&c.
Reader
,
I
shall
not
trouble
thee
further
:
what
Weakness
thou
findest
in
these
Sermons
,
I
hope
Chairty
will
〈◊〉
it
:
If
any
Profit
thou
shalt
receive
thereby
,
bless
God
,
and
be
〈…〉
of
resting
in
a
Form
of
Religion
,
being
not
brought
into
〈◊〉
Union
with
Jesus
Christ
,
nor
under
the
Power
of
true
〈…〉
let
me
have
a
part
in
thy
Prayers
,
who
is
〈…〉
them
,
being
attended
with
many
Troubles
and
〈…〉
,
but
doubt
not
but
God
will
make
them
all
work
together
for
good
,
and
will
at
last
,
I
hope
,
through
his
infinite
Grace
,
bring
to
his
quiet
,
peaceable
,
and
everlasting
Rest
,
His
poor
Servant
,
thy
unworthy
Friend
and
Brother
in
the
Gospel
,
BENJ.
KEACH
.
From
my
House
near
Horsly-down
,
this
27th
of
the
3
d
Month
,
called
May
,
1691.
ERRATA
.
PAge
33.
line
28.
for
Pride
,
read
Proud
,
&c.
l.
34.
for
regulate
,
r.
regular
.
l.
35.
blot
out
by
.
P.
35.
l.
last
,
f.
they
,
r.
we
,
and
f.
thereby
,
r.
there
●●
The
Counterfeit
Christian
;
OR
The
Danger
of
Hypocrisy
.
CONTAINING
An
Exposition
of
that
Parabolical
Speech
of
our
Saviour
,
Mat.
12.
43
,
44
,
45.
SERMON
.
I.
When
the
unclean
Spirit
is
gone
out
of
a
Man
,
he
walketh
through
dry
places
,
seeking
Rest
,
and
finding
none
,
Ver.
43.
Then
he
saith
,
I
will
return
into
my
House
from
whence
I
came
out
;
and
when
he
is
come
,
he
findeth
it
empty
,
swept
,
and
garnished
,
Ver.
44.
Then
goeth
he
and
taketh
with
him
seven
other
Spirits
more
wicked
than
himself
,
and
enter
in
and
dwell
there
;
and
the
last
State
of
that
Man
is
worse
than
the
first
,
Ver.
45.
THIS
place
of
Holy
Scripture
is
generally
acknowledged
to
be
hard
to
be
understood
;
most
Expositers
and
Annotators
(
I
have
met
with
)
say
but
little
to
it
.
Some
call
it
a
Parable
,
and
others
a
parabolical
Speech
or
a
Similitude
.
By
the
Scope
and
Coherence
of
the
place
it
is
evident
our
Saviour
setteth
forth
by
it
the
direful
State
and
Condition
of
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
and
other
People
of
the
Jews
,
who
boasted
of
their
external
Holiness
,
or
seeming
Sanctity
,
they
being
not
prophane
or
notorious
Sinners
;
or
as
they
themselves
foolishly
said
,
Not
Extortioners
,
unjust
,
or
Adulterers
,
like
as
the
Publicans
were
,
Luke
18.
11.
Yet
the
Lord
Jesus
sheweth
by
this
Parable
how
they
were
deceived
:
for
though
they
were
delivered
from
that
prophane
and
debauched
unclean
Spirit
,
yet
was
their
State
worse
than
the
State
of
gross
and
wicked
Sinners
,
which
is
signified
by
the
entering
into
them
seven
other
unclean
Spirits
worse
or
more
wicked
than
the
first
that
were
gone
out
of
them
.
That
the
Words
may
be
applied
to
them
and
other
People
of
that
Generation
,
is
evident
from
the
sequel
of
ver
.
45.
Even
so
shall
it
be
with
the
People
of
this
froward
Generation
.
Yet
no
doubt
our
blessed
Saviour
in
this
place
may
have
Reference
to
a
Man
in
the
like
State
;
or
as
Beza
,
Caeterum
quum
Spiritus
impurus
exierit
à
quopiam
,
&c.
as
well
as
unto
that
People
who
were
carried
away
with
cursed
Hypocrisy
.
When
the
unclean
Spirit
,
&c.
By
the
unclean
Spirit
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
is
certainly
meant
the
Devil
,
called
,
*
an
unclean
Spirit
.
1.
Because
he
hath
lost
his
own
original
Purity
,
or
clean
and
Holy
Nature
,
he
being
at
first
created
an
Angel
of
Light
,
having
like
Holiness
before
he
fell
,
which
the
blessed
and
elect
Angels
of
Heaven
have
.
2.
Because
he
is
so
universally
filthy
and
abominable
vile
in
himself
,
and
so
remains
and
will
abide
for
ever
,
there
being
no
Possibility
for
him
to
become
better
,
he
being
left
and
forsaken
of
God
,
without
any
means
afforded
of
being
purged
from
his
unclean
and
filthy
Nature
.
3.
Because
he
is
not
only
unclean
in
himself
,
but
also
defileth
the
Hearts
and
Spirits
of
all
such
Persons
who
receive
and
entertain
him
;
nay
,
all
the
Pollution
of
our
Nature
,
yea
,
the
whole
Nature
of
humane
Race
,
was
originally
from
that
Compliance
and
yeilding
to
him
by
our
first
Parents
;
't
is
this
unclean
Spirit
that
hath
poysoned
and
notoriously
defiled
the
whole
Man
both
Body
and
Soul
in
all
its
Powers
and
Faculties
,
and
not
the
whole
Man
only
,
but
the
whole
World
also
.
And
as
this
is
naturally
the
filthy
and
miserable
Condition
of
all
Creatures
,
so
those
who
yield
to
his
Temptations
,
come
to
have
farther
Polution
and
Defilement
cleave
to
their
Hearts
and
Lives
.
Sin
is
an
unclean
thing
,
and
it
makes
all
such
loathsom
and
abominable
in
the
Sight
of
God
,
who
are
overcome
by
it
.
Though
all
naturally
are
vile
and
filthy
,
yet
there
are
Degrees
of
Uncleanness
,
some
are
worse
than
others
,
more
wicked
,
and
so
more
like
to
the
Devil
,
in
whom
his
very
Image
or
Likeness
clearly
may
be
seen
.
4.
He
may
also
be
called
an
unclean
Spirit
,
because
he
continually
inticeth
and
strives
to
draw
Men
to
Filthiness
,
and
to
all
manner
of
Uncleanness
,
being
an
utter
Enemy
to
all
Purity
and
true
Holiness
,
envying
all
those
who
love
it
,
and
strive
to
promote
it
.
Is
gone
out
of
a
Man.
]
Not
that
the
Man
was
actually
possessed
with
the
Devil
(
as
some
may
think
)
though
't
is
very
like
the
Lord
Jesus
may
borrow
this
Parabolical
Speech
from
a
Person
actually
possessed
;
but
he
sheweth
hereby
that
all
wicked
Men
are
in
a
mystical
and
spiritual
sense
possessed
with
the
Devil
;
all
graceless
Sinners
have
an
unclean
Spirit
in
them
.
Where
Sin
predominates
and
rules
in
the
Heart
,
there
the
Devil
has
Possession
;
that
Heart
is
Satan's
Throne
where
he
reigns
and
sways
the
Scepter
:
Satan
was
said
to
enter
into
Judas
*
;
and
to
fill
the
Heart
of
Ananias
†
:
both
these
had
this
unclean
Spirit
in
them
;
the
one
was
plagued
or
possessed
with
a
treacherous
Devil
,
and
the
other
with
a
lying
Devil
.
Hence
't
is
also
said
,
that
Satan
,
who
is
the
Prince
of
the
Power
of
the
Air
,
both
worketh
and
ruleth
in
the
Children
of
Disobedience
‖
.
Gone
out
]
Either
by
the
Power
and
Force
of
the
Grace
of
God
in
its
common
Operations
he
was
thrown
out
;
or
else
,
through
Policy
,
he
voluntarily
leaves
his
House
for
a
time
,
with
an
Intention
to
return
again
with
a
stronger
force
:
Some
adhere
to
the
first
sense
,
and
others
to
the
last
.
Gone
out
,
i.e.
as
a
carnal
,
prophane
,
or
black
Devil
,
for
so
he
may
be
said
to
be
in
all
debauched
Persons
:
and
in
this
respect
he
may
be
said
to
be
gone
out
,
or
thrown
out
of
the
Pharisees
,
and
other
false
and
counterfeit
Professors
;
he
may
not
be
able
to
keep
them
any
longer
under
the
Power
of
open
and
gross
Prophaneness
.
And
from
hence
the
Pharisee
proudly
breaks
forth
,
God
,
I
thank
thee
,
I
am
not
as
other
Men
are
,
Extortioners
,
Vnjust
,
Adulterers
,
or
even
as
this
Publican
.
Why
may
not
Satan
be
expelled
or
forced
out
of
his
House
in
some
degree
,
by
the
common
Influences
of
the
Spirit
?
All
generally
grant
that
legal
Convictions
,
and
the
Operation
of
common
Grace
through
the
Workings
of
natural
Conscience
,
have
some
considerable
Power
in
them
to
reform
the
Life
of
a
wicked
Person
.
Nor
can
I
think
Satan
would
yield
to
any
Soul
voluntarily
so
far
as
to
let
him
become
so
much
as
civilized
if
he
could
help
it
;
therefore
I
rather
think
he
was
forced
to
give
place
,
as
not
being
able
to
hold
his
own
(
in
some
respect
)
as
formerly
,
although
whilst
the
Creature
abides
in
his
natural
State
,
not
having
a
changed
Heart
,
Satan
hath
possession
of
that
Soul
still
in
a
great
measure
;
and
therefore
he
leaves
,
no
doubt
,
a
strong
Guard
behind
him
,
when
he
is
said
to
go
out
,
though
they
may
be
said
to
hide
themselves
,
or
retire
into
some
lurking-holes
and
Corners
of
the
House
,
or
rather
of
the
Heart
.
Satan
cannot
doubtless
keep
Possession
always
,
so
far
as
to
hold
Men
under
the
Power
of
gross
and
scandalous
Sins
,
or
cause
them
to
continue
openly
prophane
;
such
Power
and
Virtue
is
there
in
the
common
Operation
of
the
Spirit
,
or
in
legal
Convictions
and
workings
of
natural
Conscience
,
together
with
the
help
of
the
external
Ministration
of
God's
Word
,
and
by
the
means
of
Afflictions
,
and
those
severe
Providences
and
Dispensations
,
under
which
wicked
Men
may
be
exercised
,
that
it
may
tend
to
make
them
become
other
Men
:
though
it
cannot
change
their
Hearts
,
yet
it
may
make
a
great
change
in
their
Lives
,
by
which
means
they
may
look
like
Saints
,
and
talk
like
Saints
and
sanctified
Persons
,
and
be
taken
for
such
too
by
the
truly
Godly
;
nay
,
and
that
which
is
worse
,
may
conclude
within
themselves
they
are
converted
,
since
their
former
Enemy
,
that
debauched
gross
and
unclean
Spirit
is
gone
out
of
them
.
I
am
so
far
of
the
mind
of
James
Arminius
,
that
Man
by
the
means
of
that
common
Help
and
Power
God
affords
to
all
in
general
,
may
leave
the
gross
Acts
of
Wickedness
,
let
Satan
do
what
he
can
;
which
has
been
often
evinced
by
that
Terror
severe
humane
Laws
have
had
on
the
Consciences
of
wicked
and
ungodly
Persons
.
I
am
perswaded
were
there
a
Law
that
he
that
swore
an
Oath
,
or
was
Drunk
,
or
committed
Adultery
,
should
have
his
right
Hand
cut
off
,
or
be
made
a
Slave
all
the
days
of
his
Life
,
we
should
see
Men
would
get
Power
over
those
Temptations
of
Satan
,
and
neither
be
Drunk
nor
commit
Adultery
.
He
walketh
through
dry
Places
.
]
1.
Satan
is
said
in
that
of
Job
*
,
To
go
to
and
fro
in
the
Earth
,
and
to
walk
up
and
down
in
it
.
Satan
here
speaks
,
saith
Mr.
Caryl
like
a
Prince
;
therefore
saith
he
;
Some
conceive
this
was
the
Prince
of
Devils
that
is
mentioned
in
this
Text
,
or
Belzebub
the
chief
of
Devils
.
He
walketh
about
to
view
his
Provinces
and
Territories
,
from
one
place
to
another
,
but
he
doth
not
walk
to
and
fro
as
an
idle
Peripatetick
,
but
to
enquire
,
to
observe
,
and
consider
,
as
a
Spy
,
to
search
all
things
and
Persons
as
he
passeth
along
.
Therefore
;
2.
This
noteth
that
Satan
is
a
diligent
Enemy
;
if
he
hath
lost
a
little
ground
,
or
is
worsted
in
one
Soul
,
he
will
try
what
Power
and
Success
he
can
find
in
another
.
3.
It
shews
that
he
is
an
unquiet
and
restless
Spirit
,
being
cast
out
of
Heaven
,
he
can
rest
no
where
;
and
if
he
be
forced
out
of
some
Men
at
one
time
,
he
will
tempt
others
;
nay
,
if
the
Servant
hath
a
little
worsted
him
,
he
,
to
revenge
himself
,
will
fall
perhaps
in
the
next
place
upon
the
Son
;
if
he
lose
some
place
in
his
own
House
,
he
will
see
if
he
cannot
get
into
the
Temple
of
the
Holy
Ghost
;
or
,
if
he
is
forced
to
leave
wet
and
filthy
places
in
which
he
delights
,
he
will
walk
through
dry
places
,
and
see
what
he
can
meet
with
there
.
4.
Satan's
great
Work
which
he
imploys
himself
in
and
about
,
is
no
doubt
to
get
into
the
Heart
of
Men
to
dwell
,
nay
rule
there
,
and
so
subject
them
to
himself
,
and
defile
and
polute
them
one
way
or
other
.
Dry
places
,
seeking
Rest
,
and
finding
none
]
i.
e.
where
there
is
no
Water
or
Moisture
,
or
not
enough
to
refresh
him
;
he
has
a
cruel
Thirst
upon
him
,
and
unless
he
can
meet
with
that
he
seeketh
,
which
is
to
make
a
Prey
of
the
Souls
of
Men
,
he
is
in
a
restless
state
,
like
a
thirsty
Person
who
walking
through
dry
Places
can
find
no
Water
.
There
are
some
sorts
of
Men
that
aford
Satan
no
Content
nor
Satisfaction
;
he
seeketh
for
that
oft-times
which
he
finds
not
;
he
is
not
pleased
to
be
as
a
Travellor
,
to
pass
through
a
place
and
stay
(
as
it
were
but
for
a
Night
)
but
would
fain
find
Rest
,
i.e.
have
a
Place
or
Heart
to
dwell
in
,
and
take
sole
Possession
of
.
I
find
one
of
the
Ancients
,
who
writing
on
this
dark
Expression
,
speaketh
thus
:
So
long
as
he
dwelleth
not
in
me
,
he
is
said
to
seek
Rest
he
is
grieved
and
vexed
,
&c.
1.
Dry
Places
are
commonly
clean
Places
,
or
Places
where
there
is
no
Dirt
or
Mire
:
and
Satan
,
that
unclean
Spirit
,
is
like
a
Swine
,
i.
e.
he
delights
in
filthy
and
mirery
Places
,
which
may
signify
his
assaulting
the
Saints
,
or
seeking
to
get
into
sanctified
Hearts
,
or
Hearts
renewed
by
the
special
Grace
of
God
,
and
throughly
purged
by
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
in
whom
that
filthy
sink
of
Sin
and
Polution
is
not
only
dryed
up
,
but
the
Heart
is
changed
and
made
new
,
and
so
no
more
a
House
or
Habitation
for
this
unclean
Spirit
,
but
is
become
the
Temple
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
or
a
Habitation
for
God
through
the
Spirit
.
And
these
Men's
Hearts
are
unto
Satan
,
like
dry
Places
to
a
thirsty
and
restless
Person
:
for
as
the
Holy
Spirit
cannot
rest
,
nor
take
up
his
abode
in
filthy
and
poluted
Hearts
;
so
the
Devil
,
that
wicked
Spirit
,
can
find
no
Rest
nor
Place
of
abode
in
renewed
and
sanctified
Hearts
.
And
as
it
is
no
suitable
House
or
Habitation
for
him
;
so
likewise
Believers
have
one
dwelling
in
them
,
strong
enough
to
keep
Satan
out
:
for
stronger
(
saith
the
Apostle
*
)
is
he
that
is
in
us
,
than
he
which
is
in
the
World
:
and
again
he
saith
†
,
Ye
are
strong
,
and
the
Word
of
God
abideth
in
you
;
and
ye
have
overcome
the
Wicked
one
:
He
that
is
begotten
of
God
,
keepeth
himself
,
and
the
wicked
one
toucheth
him
not
:
shall
not
so
touch
him
as
to
enter
into
his
Heart
,
and
take
up
his
Dwelling
,
or
get
Possession
of
him
any
more
;
and
therefore
these
Men's
Hearts
,
i.
e.
the
Hearts
of
true
sanctified
Christians
,
I
conclude
are
meant
here
by
our
Saviour
,
which
are
to
Satan
as
dry
places
,
where
there
is
no
dwelling
or
abiding
for
him
.
2.
As
dry
Places
are
clean
Places
;
so
likewise
they
are
commonly
barren
Places
,
Places
where
little
or
nothing
will
grow
;
Satan
is
for
such
Hearts
that
will
receive
his
evil
Seed
,
i.
e.
suited
and
fit
to
close
in
with
his
cursed
Temptations
,
which
are
like
to
moist
or
mirery
places
;
such
as
all
corrupt
and
unregenerate
Hearts
are
,
in
others
that
bitter
and
evil
Seed
which
this
unclean
Spirit
sows
,
will
not
take
root
:
Or
if
it
should
so
fall
out
,
that
through
the
Carelesness
and
Negligence
of
Believers
,
and
Strength
of
Temptations
,
Satan
should
drop
some
of
his
cursed
Seed
in
them
,
and
it
should
meet
with
a
little
of
the
old
corrupt
Nature
(
there
being
in
the
best
of
Men
an
unregenerate
part
)
yet
it
would
soon
wither
and
come
to
nothing
;
for
their
Hearts
are
,
(
as
I
said
before
)
no
proper
Soyl
for
the
Seed
of
the
wicked
one
,
therefore
if
he
gets
in
a
little
,
he
is
soon
turned
out
again
;
so
that
in
a
Word
,
according
to
the
Import
of
this
Saying
of
Christ
,
(
as
I
conceive
)
these
Mens
Hearts
are
to
the
Devil
,
like
dry
places
,
where
he
can
find
no
Rest
.
3.
Dry
Places
are
for
the
most
part
places
least
inhabited
for
want
of
Water
;
the
Hearts
of
Saints
are
like
uninhabitable
Places
to
Satan
,
in
them
he
cannot
find
those
proper
Accommodations
which
he
needs
and
must
have
where
he
dwells
.
But
since
he
can
find
no
Dwelling
here
,
no
Diabolical
Comfort
nor
Refreshment
,
i.
e.
no
abode
in
Godly
Hearts
;
he
saith
,
I
will
return
into
my
House
from
whence
I
came
out
,
ver
.
44.
I
will
return
:
Not
that
he
was
quite
routed
and
vanquished
before
,
't
is
called
still
his
House
,
he
lays
claim
and
pleads
Propriety
in
him
and
Interest
still
▪
Therefore
this
Man's
Heart
was
not
become
the
Temple
of
the
Holy
Spirit
,
he
was
gone
out
,
or
forced
out
before
,
as
a
Swearing
,
Cheating
,
Whoring
,
or
drunken
Devil
,
&c.
and
this
might
inrage
him
,
and
move
him
to
attempt
some
greater
Enterprize
,
which
we
have
already
spoken
to
.
Satan
doth
not
love
to
loose
or
let
go
any
strong
hold
he
hath
of
carnal
and
prophane
Persons
;
but
seeing
he
had
received
some
small
Defeat
,
he
sets
upon
the
truly
Godly
Christian
;
like
as
when
he
was
cast
out
of
Heaven
unto
the
Earth
,
he
presently
persecuted
the
Woman
which
brought
forth
the
Man-child
,
Rev.
12.
13.
When
he
saw
he
could
not
uphold
his
Kingdom
by
Paganism
,
nor
farther
execute
his
Malice
by
Pagan
Emperors
,
but
was
routed
and
overcome
as
to
that
Power
he
had
,
(
as
our
late
Annotators
observe
)
to
let
us
know
that
he
retains
his
Malice
,
though
he
hath
lost
his
former
strength
,
he
goes
on
in
pursuing
the
Church
of
God.
Even
so
,
I
say
,
he
having
been
forced
to
give
way
before
(
as
was
hinted
)
he
walks
about
to
seek
Revenge
upon
the
Saints
;
but
they
being
to
him
like
dry
Places
to
a
thirsty
Man
,
or
as
an
Inn
to
a
Traveller
,
viz.
no
resting
Place
,
he
resolves
to
return
to
his
own
House
,
that
is
,
the
Hearts
of
hypocritical
Professors
,
such
as
the
Pharisees
were
:
And
this
returning
of
his
into
his
old
House
,
imports
(
as
I
conceive
)
his
coming
again
in
another
form
or
shape
,
and
with
a
Resolution
to
get
better
and
more
firmer
and
surer
Possession
than
he
had
before
.
Now
he
appears
as
an
Angel
of
Light.
Nor
can
we
suppose
he
had
no
Party
left
in
the
said
House
when
he
went
out
.
Parables
must
not
he
strained
too
far
;
We
ought
not
to
scrue
or
make
too
severe
a
Scrutiny
upon
every
Phrase
:
therefore
we
cannot
think
when
he
is
said
to
return
to
his
former
House
,
or
attempt
afresh
the
false
and
counterfeit
Christian
,
that
he
hath
quite
given
over
his
Designs
in
assaulting
sanctified
Persons
,
but
he
cannot
indure
to
be
an
Underling
,
he
is
for
kinging
it
in
the
Souls
of
Men
,
would
fain
reign
and
sway
the
Scepter
there
;
and
where
he
cannot
rule
and
domineer
,
he
harh
no
Rest
,
nor
can
be
satisfied
.
And
therefore
he
may
be
said
to
return
as
an
exiled
Prince
,
and
lest
he
should
be
discovered
,
he
puts
on
a
new
Garb
,
and
is
now
contented
his
Captive
should
become
religious
,
that
so
the
deluded
Sinner
might
not
discern
him
,
but
take
him
for
his
lawful
Sovereign
;
as
if
he
should
say
,
I
will
yield
to
you
now
;
if
you
will
be
a
Professor
and
become
religious
,
ye
shall
,
but
I
will
dwell
with
you
notwithstanding
;
here
is
room
enough
for
me
as
a
white
Devil
,
tho
not
as
a
black
one
And
when
he
is
come
,
he
findeth
it
empty
,
swept
and
garnished
.
]
Empty
;
That
is
,
the
Spirit
of
God
was
not
there
,
true
Grace
was
not
there
,
Christ
dwelleth
not
there
;
that
House
may
well
be
said
to
be
empty
,
where
God
and
Jesus
Christ
are
not
;
nor
is
it
a
hard
and
difficult
thing
for
the
unclean
Spirit
to
enter
into
such
a
Soul
,
since
there
was
no
Enemy
strong
enough
to
keep
him
out
;
but
contrariwise
,
the
place
seems
to
be
rather
prepared
and
made
fit
for
him
,
to
take
up
his
abode
in
this
new
religious
and
spiritual
Appearance
;
nay
here
is
not
only
room
for
himself
,
but
the
House
is
so
empty
,
that
many
other
unclean
Spirits
more
wicked
than
himself
,
may
have
their
abode
and
dwelling
there
also
.
Satan
saith
,
I
will
return
to
my
House
,
&c.
He
speaks
as
if
he
was
sure
enough
that
this
sinner
was
his
own
,
and
therefore
should
without
any
difficulty
enter
in
,
in
that
new
Disguise
in
which
he
now
appears
;
and
accordingly
't
is
said
,
he
findeth
it
empty
,
and
also
swept
:
but
doubtless
some
Dirt
and
Filth
was
yet
in
some
Hole
or
Corner
:
For
like
as
a
lazy
and
slothful
House-wife
uses
to
sweep
a
little
of
the
loose
Dust
and
Filth
in
the
open
and
middle
of
the
Room
,
and
lets
many
secret
Corners
lie
foul
as
before
,
and
may
be
leaves
the
Dirt
behind
the
Door
out
of
the
publick
view
of
People
:
So
the
false
and
counterfeit
Christian
reforms
his
Life
in
the
sight
of
Men
;
or
,
like
the
Pharisees
,
makes
clean
the
out-side
of
the
Cup
and
Platter
;
but
their
Hearts
are
still
polluted
,
and
as
vile
as
ever
.
Swept
;
but
not
with
a
proper
and
fit
Broom
;
't
is
said
to
be
swept
,
but
alas
't
was
only
with
the
Beesom
of
legal
Reformation
;
and
how
far
that
will
cleanse
the
unclean
and
wicked
Person
,
is
known
to
all
understanding
Men
;
it
only
takes
away
the
Filth
of
gross
and
scandalous
Sins
:
therefore
said
by
St.
Peter
,
To
escape
the
Corruption
that
is
in
the
World
;
that
is
,
the
prophane
World
,
i.
e.
vile
and
notorious
Sins
and
Pollutions
.
And
garnished
,
or
painted
;
which
may
signify
that
seeming
Sanctity
,
moral
Vertue
,
and
the
common
Graces
of
the
Spirit
.
Our
Saviour
elsewhere
compares
Pharisaical
Holiness
,
to
painting
or
garnishing
of
a
Sepulchre
;
Wo
unto
you
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
Hypocrites
,
for
ye
are
like
unto
whited
Sepulchres
,
which
indeed
appear
beautiful
outward
,
but
within
are
full
of
dead
Mens
Bones
,
and
all
Vncleanness
:
Ye
build
(
saith
he
)
the
Tombs
of
the
Prophets
,
and
garnish
the
Sepulchres
of
the
Righteous
.
And
thus
Pharisaical
and
Hypocritical
Professors
may
be
said
to
be
garnished
,
i.
e.
they
seem
glorious
to
Men
,
who
only
judg
by
the
outward
Appearance
,
and
know
not
the
Heart
;
there
may
be
a
great
change
of
Life
,
a
beautiful
outside
,
and
yet
the
evil
and
vitious
Habits
and
Pollutions
of
the
Heart
may
be
still
the
same
,
and
not
changed
.
And
remarkable
is
this
Phrase
of
our
Saviour
[
garnished
,
]
which
we
know
is
commonly
a
curious
piece
of
Art
:
Men
by
their
Ingenuity
strive
to
imitate
Nature
;
they
will
draw
the
Face
of
a
Man
,
&c.
with
curious
Painting
,
very
exact
,
so
that
it
much
resembles
the
Person
's
natural
Face
,
yet
't
is
not
the
same
,
't
is
but
a
piece
of
Paint
,
an
artificial
Invention
:
Even
so
in
like
manner
by
the
Improvement
of
a
Man's
natural
Parts
,
common
Grace
,
Light
and
Knowledg
,
he
may
appear
in
the
view
and
sight
of
Men
,
as
a
true
Child
of
God
,
and
may
talk
and
discourse
like
a
Saint
,
read
and
hear
God's
Word
,
nay
,
and
pray
also
with
much
seeming
Devotion
and
Piety
,
and
may
likewise
bridle
many
unruly
Lusts
,
and
gross
Enormities
of
Life
,
and
give
Alms
to
the
Poor
,
insomuch
that
he
may
very
exactly
resemble
a
true
and
sincere
Christian
,
and
be
taken
by
all
Godly
People
to
be
indeed
such
an
one
:
but
notwithstanding
all
,
't
is
but
an
artificial
Piece
,
't
is
but
like
a
curious
Paint
,
or
vain-glorious
Garnish
;
it
is
not
the
Image
of
God
,
it
is
not
the
new
Creature
;
though
it
looks
like
it
,
much
resembles
it
,
yet
it
is
not
the
same
:
for
the
Man
is
a
meer
Hypocrite
,
a
counterfeit
Christian
,
the
work
upon
him
being
only
the
Product
of
natural
Improvements
,
and
not
the
Effects
of
the
saving
Operations
of
the
Holy
Spirit
.
Nay
,
and
Satan
,
though
an
unclean
Spirit
,
likes
to
dwell
in
such
a
House
,
I
mean
such
a
Heart
,
thus
swept
and
garnished
,
as
well
as
in
the
Heart
of
a
vile
and
debauched
Person
:
And
evident
it
is
,
that
this
sweeping
or
external
cleansing
with
the
Broom
of
outward
Reformation
,
or
the
Garnish
of
moral
Righteousness
,
common
Gifts
and
Graces
of
the
Spirit
,
Prayer
,
hearing
the
Word
,
partaking
of
the
Sacraments
,
and
doing
many
good
Works
,
cannot
secure
the
Soul
against
Satan's
Attempts
,
in
order
to
his
taking
up
his
Habitation
in
such
Persons
Hearts
.
After
I
had
preached
these
two
Sermons
,
a
Godly
Friend
who
heard
them
,
told
me
he
had
met
with
a
Treatise
of
Mr.
Richard
Allen's
,
Author
of
Vindiciae
Pietatis
,
who
gives
the
same
sense
on
this
mysterious
place
of
Scripture
:
He
helped
me
to
the
Book
which
I
was
ignorant
of
,
and
Mr.
Allen
being
a
very
worthy
Person
,
I
shall
give
you
some
brief
Hints
of
what
he
hath
said
.
When
the
unclean
Spirit
goeth
out
of
a
Man
,
&c.
That
Sinners
are
vile
and
abominable
,
saith
he
,
it
is
from
that
wicked
Spirit
,
Satan
,
that
dwells
in
them
:
Every
Sinner
is
a
Person
possessed
of
a
Devil
;
when
a
little
reformed
,
they
seem
for
a
time
to
be
dispossessed
,
&c.
He
walketh
through
dry
Places
;
what
these
dry
Places
may
be
,
is
not
easy
to
determine
:
Some
by
these
loca
arida
,
understand
loca
vacua
,
void
empty
Places
,
the
Deserts
and
Wastes
of
the
Earth
,
where
he
finds
no
body
to
attempt
or
molest
.
But
could
Satan
,
saith
he
,
think
to
find
Rest
there
where
was
no
House
for
him
to
lay
his
Head
in
?
Would
the
Tempter
waste
his
time
in
seeking
whom
to
devour
in
those
waste
Places
,
where
he
knew
well
enough
there
were
none
to
be
found
?
He
knows
too
well
where
Sinners
dwell
,
to
go
to
seek
them
where
they
are
not
;
more
like
to
find
the
Devil
at
a
Market
,
than
in
a
Wilderness
.
Thus
therefore
seems
not
to
be
the
sense
—
.
Why
may
not
,
saith
he
,
these
dry
Places
be
the
Saints
on
Earth
,
the
Fountain
of
whose
Blood
is
dried
up
?
in
whom
the
Sun
hath
dried
up
their
Dirt
and
Mire
,
in
which
this
Swine
loves
to
wallow
,
&c.
[
He
seeketh
Rest
]
this
notes
two
things
.
1.
When
the
Devil
is
gone
out
of
any
Person
,
he
is
never
at
Rest
till
he
is
gotten
in
again
,
either
thither
whence
he
went
out
,
or
into
some
other
Habitation
,
where
he
may
do
more
Mischief
:
Like
Children
,
like
Father
,
't
is
said
of
them
,
so
't
is
much
more
true
of
him
,
He
rests
not
but
in
doing
Mischief
.
2.
The
Devil
loves
to
dwell
where
he
may
be
at
Rest
;
that
is
,
not
from
Work
(
his
Rest
is
his
Work
)
but
from
Resistance
or
Opposition
,
i.
e.
in
carnal
and
unclean
Hearts
,
&c.
[
Seeking
Rest
and
finding
none
.
]
He
goes
,
saith
he
,
through
these
dry
Places
,
from
Saint
to
Saint
,
from
Heart
to
Heart
,
in
hope
to
find
Entertainment
,
but
is
still
disappointed
;
here
's
little
Rest
for
me
to
be
had
,
these
dry
Places
I
see
are
no
Places
for
me
,
here
's
watching
and
wrestling
and
warring
against
me
;
so
much
praying
,
complaining
against
me
,
that
there
's
no
stay
for
me
here
:
—
I
le
go
back
to
my
old
Habitation
:
And
when
he
comes
,
he
finds
it
empty
,
swept
,
and
garnished
,
a
little
cleaner
and
handsomer
than
when
he
left
it
.
The
Devil
can
allow
Sinners
a
little
Reformation
;
but
though
it
be
a
little
cleansed
and
garnished
,
yet
it
lies
empty
still
,
there
's
no
Tenant
hath
taken
it
up
,
though
the
Devil
went
out
,
Christ
was
not
let
in
,
but
there
it
lies
void
for
the
next
that
comes
.
Then
he
goeth
and
taketh
seven
other
Spirits
more
wicked
than
himself
,
and
they
enter
in
,
and
dwell
there
;
and
the
last
state
of
that
Man
is
worse
than
the
first
.
Beware
of
a
returning
Devil
;
the
Devil
at
his
return
often
makes
sevenfold
worse
Work
than
before
he
did
.
Allen's
Godly
Fear
,
p.
213
,
214
,
215
,
216.
He
modestly
offers
this
as
his
Thoughts
on
the
Place
,
and
I
find
others
confirming
by
some
brief
Hints
the
same
things
.
I
thought
it
not
amiss
to
recite
this
Passage
of
his
,
as
a
farther
Confirmation
of
the
Exposition
I
have
briefly
given
you
of
this
dark
Place
of
Scripture
,
not
doubting
but
't
is
the
sense
and
meaning
of
our
Saviour
.
But
now
to
draw
towards
a
Close
,
take
two
or
three
Points
of
Doctrine
.
Observe
,
1.
Satan
is
an
unclean
Spirit
.
As
God
is
the
Author
and
Original
of
all
true
Holiness
,
so
is
Satan
of
all
Sin
and
Wickedness
:
And
as
God's
Nature
is
pure
,
so
the
Devil
in
his
Nature
is
impure
;
all
Purity
proceeds
from
God
,
and
all
Sin
proceeds
from
Satan
;
God
strives
to
promote
the
one
,
and
the
Devil
labours
to
promote
the
other
:
As
God's
Kingdom
is
set
up
in
the
World
,
and
maintained
by
Holiness
and
spiritual
Sanctity
;
so
the
Devil's
Kingdom
is
set
up
and
upheld
by
Sin
and
Filthiness
.
As
God
by
his
Spirit
dwells
in
sanctified
Hearts
,
so
the
Devil
dwells
in
polluted
and
sinful
Hearts
:
And
as
Christ
makes
that
Man
or
Woman
holy
and
clean
where
he
makes
his
abode
;
so
Satan
makes
those
Souls
where
he
takes
up
his
Dwelling
,
unclean
and
abominably
wicked
.
Moreover
,
as
he
who
is
truly
sanctified
and
made
Holy
,
is
said
to
be
of
God
;
so
they
that
are
wicked
and
ungodly
,
are
said
to
be
of
the
Devil
*
.
All
those
who
are
spiritual
and
truly
gracious
are
like
to
God
,
or
bear
some
Resemblance
of
him
;
and
all
unclean
and
wicked
Persons
are
like
to
the
Devil
.
These
things
considered
,
no
marvel
Satan
is
called
an
unclean
Spirit
.
2.
All
prophane
notorious
and
ungodly
Sinners
are
in
a
woful
state
,
the
unclean
Spirit
is
in
them
,
their
Hearts
are
Satan's
Habitation
.
The
Heart
of
Man
was
not
originally
Satan's
House
,
nor
hath
he
any
just
Right
or
Propriety
in
it
;
't
is
his
by
Usurpation
and
Conquest
,
as
Men
yield
up
themselves
to
him
,
and
entertain
his
Temptations
.
Man
both
Body
and
Soul
is
the
Lord's
,
he
is
his
Creature
;
nor
ought
he
to
suffer
any
to
dwell
in
him
,
much
less
to
rule
and
sway
the
Scepter
over
him
,
but
the
Holy
God.
But
as
all
Men
as
they
come
into
the
World
,
have
wretched
and
cursed
Natures
,
through
original
Depravity
;
so
ungodly
Men
actually
have
cast
off
God
,
their
lawful
and
only
Sovereign
,
and
have
imbraced
the
wicked
one
,
they
have
received
,
and
do
subject
themselves
to
Satan
that
unclean
and
filthy
Spirit
,
he
is
King
and
Lord
over
them
.
The
Devil
hath
got
Possession
by
Craft
,
he
inticed
our
first
Parents
to
open
the
Door
to
him
,
they
gave
him
the
first
Entertainment
,
't
was
then
he
took
Possession
,
and
thereby
at
once
corrupted
all
that
are
in
the
House
;
I
mean
,
all
the
Faculties
of
the
Soul
,
to
such
a
Degree
,
that
they
all
naturally
side
with
Satan
,
and
are
for
him
,
and
are
filled
with
Enmity
against
God
,
and
oppose
and
resist
his
Spirit
,
and
rebel
against
the
Light.
Wicked
Men
had
rather
be
under
the
tyrannical
Government
of
the
Devil
,
than
to
be
ruled
and
governed
by
Jesus
Christ
:
And
from
hence
't
is
no
wonder
they
rather
chuse
to
have
wicked
earthly
Rulers
and
tyrannical
Kings
to
be
over
them
,
than
to
be
subject
to
a
Prince
who
is
an
Enemy
to
Wickedness
,
Tyranny
and
Oppression
.
This
shews
the
Blindness
and
miserable
State
and
Condition
of
all
wicked
and
ungodly
Men.
We
may
further
note
also
,
3.
That
Satan
may
lose
some
ground
in
Sinners
Hearts
,
he
may
seem
to
be
gone
out
of
them
,
and
they
may
become
sober
and
civilized
,
and
yet
may
be
in
the
Gall
of
Bitterness
,
and
their
Hearts
notwithstanding
may
be
still
Satan's
Habitation
.
Let
these
Men
change
their
Lives
,
and
become
other
Men
in
the
View
of
the
World
,
alter
their
course
of
Life
,
yet
they
are
miserable
;
Satan
has
spiritual
Power
and
Dominion
over
them
;
he
has
a
strong
party
in
their
Hearts
,
when
he
seems
to
be
gone
out
,
and
knows
they
are
his
still
,
and
owns
them
as
his
dwelling
place
.
When
he
cannot
meet
with
Entertainment
in
other
places
,
when
Saints
afford
him
no
Incouragement
,
but
displease
and
defy
him
,
and
their
Hearts
are
as
dry
places
,
he
can
nevertheless
return
at
pleasure
to
his
old
Habitation
,
and
there
he
enters
and
dwells
.
Let
them
change
their
Religion
,
yet
they
are
Satan's
Slaves
still
,
he
matters
not
if
they
leave
Popery
and
cleave
to
Prelacy
,
and
so
become
Protestants
in
general
;
nay
,
imbrace
a
more
refined
sort
of
People
,
and
take
upon
them
a
more
strict
Profession
of
Religion
,
yet
still
they
belong
to
him
,
if
they
are
not
truly
regenerated
and
renewed
in
their
Souls
;
let
them
be
Presbyterians
,
Independents
,
or
Baptists
,
it
signifies
nothing
,
they
are
still
the
same
,
and
under
Satan's
Power
and
Dominion
.
O
how
miserably
are
some
Men
deceived
,
thinking
if
they
are
reformed
and
become
zealous
for
external
Ordinances
,
and
have
taken
up
this
or
that
form
of
Religion
,
and
are
taken
for
Saints
by
Men
,
that
all
is
well
,
and
they
shall
be
saved
!
How
did
the
Pharisees
glory
in
their
seeming
Zeal
and
Piety
,
and
flatter
themselves
,
and
yet
wofully
blinded
,
and
in
a
damnable
State
and
Condition
?
Note
also
,
that
,
4.
Morality
,
external
Gifts
and
common
Grace
,
are
but
like
a
vain
Paint
,
a
mere
empty
and
artificial
Garnish
.
They
make
a
fair
show
in
the
Flesh
,
they
pride
it
in
themselves
,
and
Men
praise
and
admire
them
,
but
what
doth
all
this
signify
?
they
are
still
under
a
diabolical
Power
and
Influence
,
and
twofold
more
the
Children
of
the
Devil
than
they
were
before
:
Nay
,
as
I
shall
hereafter
shew
,
rather
seven
times
worse
than
when
they
were
openly
wicked
and
prophane
.
APPLICATION
.
1.
A
Terror
to
Sinners
.
Tremble
you
that
live
wicked
Lives
,
remember
the
unclean
Spirit
dwells
in
you
,
and
has
Power
over
you
,
your
Hearts
are
his
Habitation
,
he
rules
in
you
,
and
takes
you
Captive
at
his
Will.
If
in
this
State
you
die
,
you
are
undone
for
ever
.
2.
See
to
it
,
you
that
are
Professors
,
lest
you
are
also
deceived
.
What
is
a
reformed
Life
without
a
changed
Heart
?
To
cast
off
the
gross
Acts
of
Sin
,
will
not
avail
you
any
thing
,
without
the
evil
Habits
are
broke
,
and
you
renewed
in
the
Spirit
of
your
Mind
.
Though
you
seem
to
be
godly
to
Men
,
yet
God
knows
your
Hearts
,
and
how
they
stand
affected
to
him
,
and
to
true
real
Godliness
.
A
form
of
Religion
will
never
save
you
;
and
though
you
may
have
got
some
ground
against
Satan
,
and
he
seems
to
have
left
you
,
or
is
gone
out
,
yet
take
heed
he
does
not
return
again
with
greater
strength
,
and
get
you
into
stronger
Bonds
now
,
than
he
had
before
.
But
because
this
will
be
more
fully
opened
in
the
next
place
,
I
shall
at
present
say
no
more
to
it
now
.
3.
This
also
affords
much
Comfort
to
God's
People
.
Satan
sets
upon
you
,
and
fain
he
would
subject
your
Souls
to
himself
,
and
take
Possession
of
your
Hearts
,
but
he
cannot
prevail
,
you
have
got
one
in
you
who
is
stronger
than
Satan
,
who
will
preserve
you
to
his
Heavenly
Kingdom
.
But
no
more
at
this
time
:
I
shall
leave
what
I
have
said
to
the
Blessing
of
God.
THE
unclean
Spirit
that
goes
out
,
Of
Men
that
vicious
are
,
Doth
oft-times
seek
and
search
about
,
For
rest
both
here
and
there
:
And
fain
would
he
make
his
abode
,
In
places
dry
and
clean
;
And
ruin
all
the
Saints
of
God
,
Which
hath
been
often
seen
.
But
thou
,
O
Lord
,
dost
them
preserve
,
And
in
them
thou
dost
dwell
,
So
that
from
thee
they
cannot
swerve
,
To
be
o're-come
by
Hell.
Which
Satan
seeing
,
strait-way
goes
,
To
his
own
Dwelling
place
,
And
with
him
brings
more
dismal
Woes
,
On
such
who
want
thy
Grace
.
Who
of
it
being
empty
quite
,
Tho
swept
and
garnished
,
He
enters
in
,
and
with
strong
might
They
captive
all
are
led
,
And
overcome
by
him
again
,
Through
curst
Hypocrisy
,
And
in
them
he
does
rule
and
reign
,
Which
few
are
brought
to
see
.
What
cause
have
such
thy
Praise
to
sing
,
Who
are
renew'd
by
thee
?
Whose
Heart
thy
Habitation
is
,
They
always
happy
be
.
SERMON
II.
On
MATTH
.
12.
43
,
44
,
45.
—
When
the
Vnclean
Spirit
is
gone
out
of
a
Man
,
&c.
THE
last
Day
I
opened
the
several
Parts
of
this
place
of
Holy
Scripture
,
in
the
usual
Method
I
have
all
along
taken
in
my
Exposition
of
other
Parables
,
which
I
have
already
spoken
to
,
according
to
that
small
measure
of
Light
and
Knowledg
the
Lord
hath
been
pleased
to
bestow
upon
me
.
There
remains
one
thing
further
to
be
done
,
and
that
is
indeed
the
chief
and
most
material
of
all
,
which
is
to
shew
you
the
sad
State
of
the
false
and
counterfeit
Professor
,
out
of
whom
the
Unclean
Spirit
is
said
to
be
gone
,
but
yet
is
returned
again
with
seven
other
Spirits
more
wicked
than
himself
.
Our
Blessed
Lord
saith
,
The
last
State
of
that
Man
is
worse
than
the
first
.
Now
in
what
respect
a
painted
Hypocrite
,
or
one
garnished
only
with
common
Gifts
and
Graces
of
the
Spirit
,
may
be
said
to
be
in
a
worse
State
than
the
open
Prophane
,
I
shall
endeavour
,
God
assisting
,
to
demonstrate
.
'T
is
said
,
Satan
returned
with
seven
other
Spirits
,
&c.
]
Seven
is
a
number
of
Perfection
.
I
judg
our
Saviour
designed
hereby
to
shew
that
the
Devil
hath
now
got
stronger
hold
and
possession
of
such
a
Person
by
many
degrees
;
many
unclean
Spirits
,
or
worse
and
more
dangerous
Sins
cleave
to
him
than
before
,
so
that
he
is
like
to
be
perfectly
miserable
.
But
to
proceed
;
First
;
That
which
renders
false
Professors
,
or
counterfeit
Christians
,
to
be
in
such
a
deplorable
Condition
,
(
which
also
evidently
appeared
in
the
Pharisees
and
other
People
in
that
Generation
,
to
whom
primarily
our
Saviour
refers
,
as
the
close
of
the
45th
Verse
shews
)
is
,
that
great
Ignorance
that
cleaves
to
them
notwithstanding
their
common
Illuminations
;
which
usually
does
consist
in
these
Respects
following
.
1.
They
know
not
their
own
miserable
State
,
looking
upon
themselves
to
be
rich
and
increased
with
Goods
,
and
to
have
need
of
nothing
:
as
appears
by
that
Charge
of
the
Lord
Christ
against
the
Church
of
Laodicea
,
who
were
fallen
into
the
like
Condition
;
they
think
none
knows
more
than
themselves
,
insomuch
that
they
secretly
contemn
him
who
tells
them
how
it
is
with
them
;
and
this
rises
from
the
consideration
of
that
great
Knowledg
they
conceit
they
have
above
others
;
But
now
ye
say
,
Ye
see
,
therefore
your
Sin
remains
.
If
your
Ignorance
were
simple
,
(
as
if
Christ
should
say
)
and
not
affected
,
or
were
you
sensible
of
your
blindness
,
then
your
Disease
would
not
be
so
incurable
:
But
now
you
say
you
see
,
and
you
doubt
not
but
you
are
in
a
state
of
Happiness
,
and
are
the
only
People
of
God
,
and
yet
presumptuously
refuse
the
way
of
your
Relief
and
Salvation
,
and
do
not
conclude
you
are
under
Guilt
and
Wrath
,
as
indeed
you
are
.
Prophane
Persons
,
though
their
State
is
bad
,
and
very
miserable
,
yet
are
not
generally
so
blind
as
once
to
imagine
their
Condition
to
be
good
,
but
act
and
do
those
abominable
Deeds
of
Darkness
,
against
the
Light
and
Dictates
of
their
own
Consciences
:
And
though
Satan
hath
got
power
over
them
,
and
their
Lusts
predominate
in
them
,
yet
are
they
commonly
possessed
at
certain
times
with
fear
about
their
eternal
State
,
(
unless
wholly
given
up
to
a
reprobate
Mind
,
having
their
Conscience
seared
with
an
hot
Iron
)
;
and
that
which
seems
to
bear
up
their
Spirits
,
is
the
hopes
they
have
of
future
Repentance
;
for
the
thoughts
of
dying
in
the
present
Condition
they
are
in
,
is
grievous
to
them
:
Nay
,
and
the
false
Professor
,
whilst
he
abode
under
the
Power
of
the
Unclean
Spirit
,
being
openly
prophane
,
might
tremble
,
as
seeing
himself
posting
headlong
to
Hell
;
but
now
,
through
the
blindness
of
his
Mind
,
for
want
of
a
true
illumination
of
the
Spirit
,
he
thinks
he
is
in
the
direct
way
to
Heaven
,
his
Conscience
being
misled
,
(
and
his
intellectual
part
darkened
)
never
reproves
him
,
but
rather
gives
in
its
testimony
for
him
.
And
thus
it
was
with
Paul
before
his
Conversion
;
whilst
he
abode
a
Pharisee
,
his
Conscience
never
accused
him
for
those
great
Evils
in
persecuting
the
Church
of
God
;
for
he
himself
saith
,
he
did
it
ignorantly
in
unbelief
.
What
can
render
the
State
of
a
Person
worse
,
i.
e.
to
be
an
Enemy
to
God
,
and
Jesus
Christ
,
and
to
the
Power
of
Godliness
,
and
yet
think
he
is
Holy
,
and
a
good
Christian
;
nay
,
and
his
Conscience
being
blinded
in
the
Matter
,
acquits
him
of
Hypocrisy
for
want
of
Saving-light
,
whilst
he
keeps
up
in
a
zealous
performance
of
the
external
Acts
of
Duty
and
Religion
,
by
which
means
he
is
deprived
of
that
help
which
some
openly-prophane
meet
with
from
the
Rebukes
and
Lashes
of
their
own
Consciences
,
which
oft-times
proves
a
means
of
their
Conversion
.
But
the
hypocritical
Professor
,
not
knowing
the
want
of
a
changed
Heart
,
nor
the
defect
of
those
Sacred
Principles
from
whence
should
flow
all
he
acts
and
does
,
but
contrarywise
is
stirred
up
by
false
Principles
,
and
acts
only
by
the
power
of
natural
Conscience
and
Affections
,
having
no
clear
judgment
to
discern
his
own
Danger
,
nor
what
a
State
is
he
still
in
;
His
Condition
is
deplorable
,
and
this
Unclean
Spirit
is
worse
and
more
direful
than
that
which
he
was
in
before
.
2.
Their
Blindness
and
Ignorance
consisteth
,
in
that
they
cannot
discern
nor
distinguish
between
a
changed
Heart
and
a
changed
Life
,
or
between
legal
Reformation
and
true
Regeneration
.
They
think
,
because
their
State
seems
so
much
better
than
it
was
before
,
in
their
own
apprehension
,
and
in
the
apprehension
of
others
also
,
their
Condition
is
good
enough
,
they
comparing
themselves
with
themselves
,
beholding
what
a
vast
difference
there
is
,
or
seems
to
be
in
respect
of
what
they
once
were
,
when
Swearers
,
Drunkards
,
Whoremongers
,
&c.
cannot
but
commend
themselves
to
themselves
:
once
they
saw
themselves
Sinners
,
and
called
themselves
so
,
and
were
ashamed
of
their
own
sinful
and
wicked
Lives
;
but
now
they
are
Righteous
in
their
own
conceit
,
and
so
have
no
need
of
any
further
work
,
being
arrived
to
that
State
of
Holiness
,
(
as
they
think
)
to
that
degree
of
Piety
,
to
that
Change
,
to
that
Conversion
,
that
they
conclude
they
need
not
seek
for
any
other
,
and
yet
are
deceived
,
and
in
the
Gall
of
Bitterness
.
And
hereby
they
seem
to
put
themselves
out
of
the
Call
of
Jesus
Christ
,
who
came
to
seek
and
to
save
that
which
was
lost
:
not
to
call
the
Righteous
,
but
Sinners
to
Repentance
.
Let
Men
think
what
they
please
,
certainly
there
is
no
Devil
like
this
Devil
:
If
he
can
perswade
a
Man
that
he
is
whole
,
and
not
sick
at
all
,
and
so
needs
no
Physician
;
and
that
when
the
Gospel
is
preached
to
Sinners
,
and
the
danger
of
Unbelief
is
opened
,
yet
it
doth
not
affect
him
,
nor
concern
him
,
he
being
become
a
righteous
Person
;
what
hopes
can
there
be
of
such
a
one
?
Alas
,
the
Ministers
of
Christ
have
received
no
Commission
to
offer
Christ
to
any
but
to
Sinners
.
Now
these
are
not
the
Persons
a
precious
Saviour
is
tendred
unto
,
they
see
no
want
nor
need
of
him
,
and
therefore
these
are
passed
by
as
such
who
need
no
Repentance
.
3.
Their
Blindness
consisteth
in
their
ignorance
of
God's
Righteousness
,
not
knowing
what
Righteousness
it
is
that
will
render
them
accepted
and
justified
in
the
sight
of
God
;
and
so
,
like
the
poor
Jews
,
go
about
to
establish
their
own
Righteousness
,
their
own
personal
Righteousness
,
a
home-spun
Righteousness
;
they
see
no
need
to
go
to
another
,
to
be
beholden
to
another
,
for
that
which
they
suppose
they
have
in
themselves
.
And
this
ignorance
of
the
Righteousness
of
God
,
partly
rises
from
their
ignorance
of
the
Nature
of
the
Law
,
and
pure
Nature
of
God
,
concluding
,
there
is
no
need
of
a
spotless
or
perfect
Righteousness
in
point
of
Justification
,
(
as
either
being
inherent
in
us
,
which
can't
be
,
since
all
have
sinned
)
or
else
by
Imputation
,
as
wrought
out
for
us
in
the
Person
of
the
Mediator
;
and
therefore
think
(
as
Paul
once
did
)
he
is
a
justified
Person
who
breaks
not
the
Letter
of
the
Law
,
or
is
not
guilty
of
the
gross
Acts
of
Sin.
Secondly
;
Their
Danger
appears
also
from
a
proud
Devil
that
now
is
entred
into
them
.
Pride
commonly
accompanies
Ignorance
,
and
this
abounds
in
the
Heart
of
Man
by
Nature
,
and
there
it
will
predominate
,
till
the
Soul
passes
through
an
effectual
Change
;
but
it
appears
in
none
so
fully
,
or
to
such
a
Degree
,
as
in
a
Pharisaical
Person
;
he
cannot
indure
to
think
he
is
so
poor
as
prophane
and
notorious
Sinners
are
;
what
,
go
to
his
Neighbour's
Door
for
every
Morsel
of
Bread
he
eats
,
and
for
every
draught
of
Drink
!
no
,
't
is
below
him
to
beg
,
he
thinks
't
is
enough
for
Publicans
and
Sinners
to
do
so
.
And
indeed
what
need
he
go
to
be
fed
and
clothed
by
another
,
that
is
full
,
and
sees
his
Goods
increased
,
and
hath
need
of
nothing
?
Faith
empties
the
Soul
,
makes
it
poor
,
before
it
fills
and
inriches
it
.
But
this
Man
knows
not
what
Faith
is
,
nor
the
Life
of
it
.
Pride
springs
from
an
inordinate
Self-love
:
Self-love
,
and
Self-flattery
,
are
the
Glasses
in
which
a
self-deceived
Hypocrite
looks
daily
in
,
in
which
he
appears
indeed
that
which
he
is
not
.
Self-love
is
a
Multiplying
,
yea
a
Magnifying-Glass
.
These
never
had
a
true
sight
of
themselves
,
never
saw
their
own
Poverty
,
and
horrid
pollution
of
their
Nature
;
't
is
with
them
,
as
it
was
with
the
Apostle
,
before
the
Commandment
came
,
they
are
alive
,
and
beautiful
in
their
own
Eyes
.
Behold
,
thou
art
called
a
Jew
,
and
restest
in
the
Law
,
and
makest
thy
boast
of
God
,
and
knowest
his
will
,
and
approvest
the
things
that
are
excellent
.
Thou
art
,
as
if
he
should
say
,
called
a
Saint
,
looked
upon
by
all
to
be
a
Holy
Person
,
a
Religious
Man
,
one
of
great
Parts
,
and
Knowledg
,
and
Abilities
,
exceeding
many
;
makest
thy
boast
of
God
,
as
if
none
knew
him
so
well
as
thou
dost
:
but
this
was
their
Pride
,
their
Hearts
were
lifted
up
,
by
reason
of
that
knowledg
they
had
of
the
Letter
of
the
Law
;
though
neither
their
Hearts
nor
Lives
were
conformable
to
the
Spiritualness
of
it
,
never
saw
that
the
least
Sin
and
Lusts
lays
them
open
to
the
dreadful
Wrath
of
God
,
and
to
the
Curse
of
his
holy
Law.
They
boasted
in
that
they
had
escaped
the
Corruption
that
is
in
the
World
,
i.
e.
all
scandalous
and
gross
Sins
,
and
so
were
puffed
up
in
Pride
and
Vain-Glory
.
These
Self-righteous
Persons
will
not
be
made
sensible
that
they
are
in
a
sinful
State
,
because
of
those
commendable
Qualities
possessed
within
,
as
they
seem
in
their
own
Eyes
;
and
do
not
perceive
how
they
are
degenerated
,
and
have
lost
the
Image
of
God
which
we
had
in
Creation
,
and
how
now
they
bear
the
Image
of
the
Devil
by
Corruption
;
they
understand
not
the
Nature
and
Extent
of
Original
Sin
,
the
pravity
of
their
natural
Faculties
,
the
lameness
and
impotency
of
their
own
natural
Powers
,
nor
the
sinfulness
of
the
first
motions
of
their
Hearts
;
boasting
(
as
one
observes
)
of
self-Ability
in
the
midst
of
utter
Weakness
,
and
an
affection
to
God
under
prevailing
and
horrid
Enmity
.
Pride
commonly
arises
from
a
conceit
of
some
excelling
Quality
,
whether
Beauty
,
Parts
,
or
Knowledg
,
or
affected
Piety
;
and
these
Men
never
being
convinced
of
their
own
natural
Deformity
,
Filthiness
,
and
Pollution
of
Sin
,
that
contagion
of
the
Soul
,
the
universal
stain
of
Nature
,
nothing
but
Pollution
succeeding
in
the
place
of
original
Purity
,
are
swelled
up
in
spiritual
Pride
and
self-conceitedness
.
The
Pharisees
were
the
proudest
of
all
People
,
and
they
were
the
most
ignorant
of
Gospel-Truths
;
they
would
have
their
Opinion
a
Rule
to
all
the
People
,
and
that
must
be
a
Truth
which
they
so
esteem
to
be
,
and
that
an
Error
,
which
they
conceit
so
to
be
.
Pride
being
the
Devil's
Sin
,
is
hateful
to
God.
He
that
looks
upon
himself
too
much
,
looks
upon
God
too
little
.
If
God
hides
the
Mysteries
of
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
from
any
,
't
is
from
the
Wise
and
Prudent
.
The
Design
of
God
in
the
glorious
contrivance
of
the
way
of
Salvation
by
Christ
,
is
to
confound
and
destroy
the
Pride
of
Man
;
and
because
Man's
corrupt
Reason
cannot
comprehend
the
Sacred
Mysteries
of
the
Doctrine
of
Faith
,
they
contemn
and
disbelieve
the
revelation
of
it
.
No
Religion
nor
Ordinance
of
God
is
valued
by
some
Men
but
what
suits
with
their
own
affected
Principles
and
Notions
;
from
hence
the
Greeks
counted
the
Gospel
Foolishness
:
and
the
Jews
were
so
wedded
to
their
own
legal
Righteousness
,
that
unto
them
Jesus
Christ
was
a
stumbling-block
;
the
pride
of
their
Knowledg
and
Attainments
was
the
Mother
and
Nurse
of
their
incredulity
:
Have
any
of
the
Pharisees
believed
on
him
?
These
Men
sin
(
as
I
have
often
told
some
of
you
)
against
the
Remedy
,
and
fence
against
the
Edge
of
that
Sword
by
which
their
Souls
should
be
wounded
,
and
they
die
,
if
ever
they
come
to
live
indeed
;
therefore
what
hopes
is
there
of
them
?
Alas
,
Men
swelled
up
with
an
Opinion
of
their
own
good
Estate
and
Condition
without
Christ
,
are
unfit
for
Faith.
This
is
one
of
the
strong
Holds
,
exalting
it self
against
the
Knowledg
of
God
:
How
loth
is
a
proud
Man
to
become
a
Fool
,
that
he
may
be
wise
?
or
to
captivate
his
Reason
to
the
obedience
of
Faith
,
to
be
justified
by
another's
Righteousness
?
and
that
our
own
Righteousness
,
which
is
so
pleasant
and
acceptable
in
our
sight
,
and
in
the
sight
of
Men
,
should
be
as
filthy
Rags
,
or
a
loathsome
thing
in
the
sight
of
God
,
is
to
these
sort
of
People
a
strange
Paradox
.
Lucifer
,
as
some
pretend
,
is
one
of
the
chief
of
Devils
,
who
is
called
also
the
King
of
Pride
:
If
so
,
certainly
he
is
one
of
those
wicked
Spirits
that
entred
into
this
Person
.
Now
what
but
infinite
Power
can
throw
out
this
Devil
,
this
Pride
,
and
bring
this
Soul
to
the
foot
of
the
cross
,
and
make
it
strike
its
swelling
Sails
to
Jesus
Christ
,
and
become
nothing
in
it self
,
and
to
hate
and
loth
its
own
Righteousness
,
by
reason
of
that
impurity
and
pollution
that
cleaves
to
every
best
Duty
they
do
or
can
perform
?
Thus
this
unclean
Spirit
raises
up
strong
Fortifications
against
the
way
of
Salvation
,
the
way
of
Faith
,
or
going
to
Jesus
Christ
for
all
as
poor
and
undone
Sinners
.
These
Enemies
,
in
Hypocritical
and
Self-righteous
Persons
,
stand
armed
in
the
Breaches
of
Nature
(
as
one
observes
)
to
beat
off
all
Assaults
of
the
Gospel
,
and
therefore
the
latter
State
of
these
Persons
is
worse
than
the
first
.
Thirdly
;
Self-confidence
may
be
another
evil
Spirit
that
is
entred
into
these
Persons
,
and
which
renders
their
State
so
bad
.
'T
is
impossible
to
perswade
them
that
their
Condition
is
nought
and
damnable
:
you
may
(
as
I
hinted
before
)
quickly
bring
a
vile
and
debauched
Person
to
acknowledg
his
State
is
dangerous
,
tho
there
is
no
turning
him
from
his
evil
course
;
yet
he
stands
not
upon
self-justification
,
but
rather
readily
yields
to
you
:
if
you
deal
with
him
at
a
seasonable
time
with
Wisdom
,
and
tell
him
he
is
a
very
wretched
Creature
I
know
:
I
am
so
,
saith
he
,
the
Lord
have
Mercy
upon
me
.
But
the
Man
out
of
whom
the
debauched
Devil
is
gone
,
is
in
his
own
Eyes
become
another
Person
,
a
seeming
Saint
,
one
that
hears
Sermons
,
Prays
,
and
gives
Alms
,
and
yet
not
renewed
,
nor
his
evil
Habits
changed
.
O
't
is
no
easy
thing
to
bring
him
once
to
doubt
or
question
the
Goodness
of
his
Condition
,
he
blesses
God
for
that
help
he
has
had
to
change
his
former
course
of
Life
;
God
,
I
thank
thee
,
I
am
not
as
other
Men
,
nor
as
this
Publican
;
I
was
as
bad
as
other
,
but
I
am
become
religious
;
now
I
am
no
Swearer
,
Whoremonger
,
Drunkard
,
Extortioner
,
&c.
To
this
purpose
you
have
the
Pharisee
boasting
and
praising
of
God
:
this
renders
his
state
lamentable
with
a
witness
.
What
made
the
foolish
Virgins
so
bold
as
to
go
forth
to
meet
the
Bridegroom
?
Was
it
not
that
confidence
they
had
that
their
condition
was
good
?
A
wise
Man
,
saith
Solomon
,
feareth
,
and
departeth
from
iniquity
;
but
a
Fool
rageth
,
and
is
confident
.
Confidence
is
opposed
to
Fearing
;
so
that
this
sort
of
Men
are
secure
and
unsensible
of
their
Danger
till
it
is
too
late
.
As
in
the
Case
of
the
Foolish
Virgins
,
they
saw
not
their
fearful
State
till
the
Mid-night
Cry
was
heard
.
And
hence
our
Saviour
told
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
that
Publicans
and
Harlots
went
into
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
before
them
:
Which
fully
confirms
what
we
say
from
this
dark
Scripture
,
viz.
That
openly
prophane
Persons
,
and
notorious
Sinners
,
are
not
in
so
dangerous
a
condition
,
as
a
false
Professor
or
counterfeit
Christian
,
who
having
passed
under
a
seeming
change
of
Life
,
and
left
the
gross
Acts
of
Sin
,
though
never
throughly
wrought
upon
by
regenerating
Grace
;
and
I
conclude
this
of
Self-confidence
is
one
of
those
more
wicked
Spirits
that
are
now
entered
into
him
.
Behold
,
thou
art
called
a
Jew
,
and
rests
in
the
Law
,
and
makes
thy
boast
of
God
,
&c.
And
art
confident
that
thou
thy self
art
a
Guide
of
the
Blind
,
a
Light
to
them
that
sit
in
Darkness
,
&c.
Thus
these
Persons
proudly
,
with
great
Self-confidence
,
arrogate
all
Wisdom
and
Knowledg
to
themselves
;
and
are
like
the
Sluggard
Solomon
speaks
of
,
i.e.
wiser
in
their
own
conceit
than
seven
Men
that
can
render
a
Reason
.
Tremble
ye
who
fear
nothing
,
who
conclude
all
Wisdom
and
Knowledg
is
with
you
,
and
that
you
need
not
be
taught
more
than
you
already
know
.
Some
Men
,
tho
openly
prophane
,
glory
and
boast
of
their
Church
and
Christianity
,
and
doubt
not
but
in
that
Faith
to
be
saved
:
But
if
those
who
are
of
a
good
moral
Life
,
and
zealous
for
the
external
Parts
of
true
Religion
,
for
want
of
a
saving
Work
of
Grace
on
their
Hearts
,
are
in
such
a
deplorable
State
,
what
vain
pride
and
folly
possesseth
that
foolish
and
debauched
Crew
we
have
amongst
us
?
Fourthly
;
Vain-Glory
also
certainly
may
be
another
Sin
this
Person
is
become
guilty
of
.
The
Design
of
God
in
the
Gospel
,
is
to
discover
how
vile
,
helpless
,
and
wretched
all
Men
naturally
are
in
themselves
,
and
so
to
shew
us
that
we
have
nothing
to
glory
in
,
but
that
he
that
glorieth
might
glory
in
the
Lord.
But
these
Persons
glory
in
their
seeming
Gifts
,
Parts
,
Learning
,
Knowledg
,
and
external
Privileges
:
they
are
like
those
of
old
who
cried
out
,
the
Temple
of
the
Lord
,
or
the
Church
of
God
are
we
.
Poor
Sinners
have
nothing
to
glory
in
unless
it
be
their
Shame
.
The
Publican
cries
out
,
Lord
,
be
merciful
to
me
a
Sinner
.
But
the
false
and
self-righteous
Professor
,
like
as
a
rich
Man
glories
in
his
Riches
,
and
a
strong
Man
glories
in
his
Strength
,
so
he
glories
in
his
own
Righteousness
,
in
his
spiritual
Attainments
and
seeming
Sanctity
.
And
doubtless
this
is
another
strong
Chain
with
which
the
Devil
binds
these
deluded
Creatures
.
Self-confidence
,
Pride
,
and
Vain-glory
,
are
all
of
near
Kin
,
and
proceed
from
that
horrid
Ignorance
I
first
mentioned
;
they
are
all
the
spurious
Off-spring
of
that
cursed
Parent
.
But
why
should
we
glory
in
the
Lord
,
or
rejoice
only
in
Christ
?
Why
't
is
,
because
ye
are
in
Christ
Jesus
,
who
of
God
is
made
unto
us
Wisdom
,
and
Righteousness
,
Sanctification
and
Redemption
:
Ye
are
in
him
by
Faith
,
by
Regeneration
,
and
his
Spirit
dwells
in
you
.
Our
Righteousness
is
so
imperfect
,
and
so
filthy
,
that
it
is
compared
to
a
menstruous
Cloth
;
instead
of
glorying
in
it
,
we
have
cause
to
be
ashamed
of
it
,
and
to
loath
our selves
,
and
with
Paul
,
to
account
it
but
Dung
;
our
best
Actions
,
Works
and
Duties
we
perform
,
cannot
commend
us
to
God
,
nor
in
any
respect
procure
the
least
Good
from
his
Hands
,
forasmuch
as
Sin
cleaveth
to
them
,
and
nothing
but
a
perfect
and
compleat
Righteousness
can
render
the
Soul
justified
and
accepted
in
his
sight
.
This
vain-glorious
Person
little
considereth
what
horrid
Pollution
abides
still
in
his
Heart
,
for
which
he
is
accursed
by
the
Law
of
God
,
and
so
remains
till
he
hath
real
Union
with
Christ
,
and
is
brought
under
a
Divine
Change.
What
though
he
has
escaped
some
abominable
Evils
and
Corruptions
of
his
Life
,
since
his
vicious
Habits
,
and
filthy
Nature
is
not
changed
,
nor
he
sees
not
the
Purity
of
the
Law
of
God
?
Alas
,
he
beholds
it
,
as
only
forbidding
all
outward
Acts
of
Sin
,
but
the
Spirituality
of
it
was
never
opened
to
him
,
for
if
it
had
,
he
would
see
no
cause
of
glorying
in
himself
,
but
contrariwise
would
soon
be
convinced
of
his
Error
and
sad
Mistake
,
and
behold
himself
an
undone
Man
,
and
cry
out
of
the
deceitful
Nature
,
turnings
and
windings
of
his
own
base
Heart
,
Thoughts
and
Affections
,
and
what
a
disproportion
or
disagreement
to
the
perfect
Rule
;
or
how
far
he
is
from
that
Holiness
,
and
Purity
,
and
Rectitude
described
in
the
Book
of
God.
It
amazed
Paul
,
when
he
once
came
fully
to
understand
the
Law
,
when
he
looked
on
all
the
parts
of
it
,
not
only
on
the
grosser
Sins
forbidden
by
it
,
but
on
the
Rectitude
,
the
Holiness
which
is
required
therein
:
When
he
saw
the
Law
discover'd
Lust
to
be
Sin
,
and
that
the
least
Lust
of
the
Heart
is
as
palpable
a
breach
of
it
,
as
Murder
,
Theft
,
or
the
outward
Act
of
Adultery
,
and
exposed
equally
to
the
Curse
of
it
,
and
so
to
the
Wrath
of
God
:
Then
(
saith
he
)
Sin
revived
,
and
I
died
;
that
is
,
as
to
any
hopes
of
Life
and
Salvation
by
that
Righteousness
which
before
he
gloried
in
,
and
made
his
boast
of
.
The
same
Apostle
afterwards
came
to
see
that
in
him
,
that
is
to
say
,
in
his
Flesh
dwelt
no
good
thing
;
nay
,
and
the
Holy
Ghost
saith
,
All
are
gone
out
of
the
way
,
all
are
become
filthy
,
and
there
is
none
that
doth
good
,
no
not
one
.
What
cause
is
there
then
for
this
Man
to
glory
in
his
Parts
,
Knowledg
,
and
seeming
Righteousness
,
since
these
things
for
which
Men
value
and
esteem
themselves
above
others
,
God
saith
there
is
no
good
in
,
nothing
excellent
,
but
't
is
contrariwise
abhorred
and
hateful
to
him
?
But
O
how
hard
a
thing
is
it
to
bring
this
and
that
self-righteous
Person
to
believe
this
,
or
receive
it
as
a
Truth
?
What
,
says
he
,
can
ye
make
me
think
I
am
still
a
vile
Sinner
,
and
God
doth
not
accept
me
,
who
do
so
much
good
,
that
pray
as
I
do
,
and
hear
Sermons
,
and
am
thus
much
reformed
?
O
this
is
a
worse
Devil
than
the
former
,
and
he
hereby
is
in
a
worse
state
than
at
first
.
Before
he
was
easily
brought
to
confess
his
State
bad
:
when
openly
prophane
,
his
gross
and
scandalous
Sins
appeared
odious
to
him
,
being
so
indeed
in
the
Eyes
of
all
sober
and
civilized
People
;
gross
Wickedness
seemed
to
him
as
filthy
Rags
,
or
as
a
menstruous
Cloth
:
But
to
tell
him
his
Righteousness
is
alike
abominable
,
filthy
,
and
hateful
to
God
;
this
he
cannot
believe
,
but
concludes
,
't
is
a
glorious
Cover
,
a
rich
Garment
,
a
precious
Ornament
,
and
so
prides
himself
in
it
,
and
makes
his
boast
of
it
,
pretending
now
to
so
much
Sanctity
,
that
like
those
of
old
he
is
ready
in
his
Heart
to
say
to
others
,
Stand
by
your selves
,
come
not
near
me
,
for
I
am
holier
than
you
.
Thus
the
Pharisees
of
old
sequestred
themselves
from
all
sorts
of
Men
,
must
not
be
so
much
as
touched
by
any
;
for
so
it
seems
by
that
passage
,
when
the
poor
Woman
came
to
Christ
,
and
touched
the
Hem
of
his
Garment
,
they
wondered
that
our
Saviour
would
suffer
himself
to
be
touched
by
her
,
she
being
a
Sinner
;
they
could
not
endure
to
have
any
legal
pollution
upon
them
,
would
not
eat
a
bit
of
Meat
until
they
had
washed
their
Hands
,
and
oft
washed
their
whole
Bodies
,
especially
after
they
had
been
at
a
Feast
,
for
fear
any
pollution
had
fallen
upon
them
:
and
so
also
when
they
came
from
the
Market
,
lest
peradventure
they
should
have
touched
some
Heathen
,
or
some
Person
who
was
legally
unclean
.
And
now
in
this
Righteousness
they
gloried
,
trusted
to
it
,
and
sought
hereby
for
Justification
and
Acceptance
in
the
Sight
of
God
,
which
rendered
their
State
worse
than
before
.
And
that
which
seems
to
feed
and
heighten
this
Pride
,
Self-confidence
,
and
Vain-glory
,
in
some
of
these
blind
and
self-deceived
People
,
is
that
strange
Conceit
and
Apprehension
they
have
of
their
own
Power
and
Abilities
to
do
and
perform
those
things
God
requireth
,
in
order
to
their
Acceptance
with
him
,
together
with
their
false
Notions
of
God's
Mercy
in
pardoning
them
wherein
they
come
short
.
In
this
very
respect
the
Jews
erred
to
their
eternal
Overthrow
;
they
thought
they
had
Power
,
and
were
able
to
keep
the
Law
to
such
a
Degree
,
that
they
were
accepted
as
righteous
Persons
in
God's
Sight
by
it
;
and
though
they
might
not
be
puffed
up
with
Pride
(
as
some
of
late
amongst
us
are
and
have
been
)
as
to
think
they
were
without
Sin
,
yet
did
not
doubt
but
wherein
they
came
short
or
were
guilty
,
God
,
as
a
pure
Act
of
his
Mercy
,
would
forgive
them
,
not
seeing
a
Necessity
of
Christ
and
of
his
Righteousness
.
Which
Notion
tends
at
once
utterly
to
make
void
the
Doctrine
of
Faith
,
and
Covenant
of
Grace
,
and
so
consequently
the
whole
Design
of
God
in
sending
Jesus
Christ
into
the
World
:
for
if
Salvation
may
be
obtained
this
way
,
Christ
is
dead
in
vain
.
And
whilst
I
am
hinting
these
things
to
you
,
I
cannot
but
bewail
another
sort
of
Men
,
who
though
not
so
grossly
blind
and
mistaken
as
some
others
are
,
yet
doubtless
greatly
miss
it
,
and
run
upon
almost
as
bad
a
Rock
,
whilst
they
apprehend
and
think
all
Men
are
put
into
such
a
Capacity
that
they
may
be
saved
if
they
will
,
i.
e.
by
improving
the
means
of
Light
and
Knowledg
,
they
have
by
their
own
inherent
Power
and
Abilities
,
without
the
special
Operation
of
the
spirit
,
not
considering
the
woful
pravity
of
Man's
Nature
,
by
original
and
actual
Transgression
,
they
being
dead
in
Sin
,
and
stand
in
as
much
need
to
be
quickned
by
Jesus
Christ
,
or
to
have
a
Principle
of
Divine
Life
infused
into
them
,
if
ever
they
spiritually
live
,
as
Lazarus
had
to
be
quickned
and
raised
again
,
after
he
had
lain
four
days
in
the
Grave
.
Nay
and
't
is
evident
,
God
doth
work
in
us
,
who
are
spiritually
quickned
and
brought
to
believe
,
after
the
same
manner
which
he
wrought
in
Christ
when
he
raised
him
from
the
dead
.
One
ground
or
cause
of
these
Mens
Mistake
may
arise
from
the
Consideration
of
that
Power
Men
in
general
have
by
the
help
of
natural
Conscience
,
and
the
external
means
of
Grace
,
to
leave
the
gross
Acts
of
Sin
,
and
so
reform
their
Lives
,
and
cleave
to
God
in
all
Acts
of
Obedience
,
in
the
external
Ordinances
of
the
Gospel
,
which
is
I
fear
all
the
Conversion
some
Professors
ever
attained
unto
,
and
is
also
indeed
the
Substance
of
that
which
Man
by
the
Power
of
his
own
Will
,
is
able
to
arrive
unto
,
to
affirm
that
Man
by
his
own
natural
and
internal
Abilities
(
as
influenced
by
common
Grace
)
hath
Power
to
renew
himself
,
change
his
own
Heart
,
or
form
Jesus
Christ
in
his
Soul
,
is
in
effect
to
attribute
to
him
Omnipotency
,
and
make
a
God
of
him
,
even
no
less
than
a
creating
Power
:
For
the
Image
of
God
,
which
is
wrought
in
all
true
regenerated
Persons
,
is
called
the
new
Creature
;
and
a
glorious
Creature
it
is
as
ever
the
Almighty
formed
,
being
the
top-Glory
of
all
his
creating
Power
.
And
besides
,
this
necessarily
makes
way
for
Men
to
boast
and
glory
in
themselves
,
for
it
makes
Man
a
Competitor
,
a
Co-partner
,
and
a
Co-worker
with
God
in
Redemption
;
for
the
Work
of
Redemption
doth
not
only
consist
in
a
price
paid
,
or
an
Atonement
made
by
Jesus
Christ
,
(
whereby
he
appeased
Divine
Wrath
,
and
satisfied
God's
offended
Justice
)
but
also
by
Power
and
blessed
Conquest
the
one
was
done
without
us
in
the
Person
of
Christ
,
the
other
is
done
in
us
by
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
whereby
those
evil
and
vicious
Habits
that
are
in
us
,
naturally
are
removed
,
and
the
Power
of
Satan
broke
into
Pieces
,
or
that
strong
Man
armed
overcome
,
and
the
Soul
set
at
Liberty
.
To
this
purpose
was
the
Son
of
God
manifested
,
that
he
might
destroy
the
Works
of
the
Devil
.
No
Man
can
be
said
to
be
redeemed
by
Christ
,
until
he
is
redeemed
from
his
Sins
,
or
delivered
from
that
Enmity
that
naturally
is
in
his
Heart
against
God
,
or
that
sacred
Image
of
God
be
again
restored
in
him
,
not
until
he
is
quickned
or
raised
from
the
dead
.
Hence
St.
Peter
,
speaking
of
Redemption
,
saith
,
We
were
not
redeemed
with
corruptible
things
,
as
Silver
and
Gold
,
from
a
vain
Conversation
,
&c.
but
with
the
precious
Blood
of
Jesus
Christ
,
as
of
a
Lamb
without
Blemish
and
without
Spot
.
The
Redemption
is
from
a
vain
Conversation
,
't
is
not
from
Wrath
only
,
but
from
Sin
the
cause
of
that
Wrath
also
.
And
all
Men
know
this
is
not
universal
,
seeing
but
a
very
few
are
indeed
thus
redeemed
;
and
they
may
as
well
perceive
that
this
is
as
absolutely
the
Work
of
Christ
,
as
he
is
our
Redeemer
,
viz.
thus
to
work
in
us
,
to
redeem
us
as
it
was
his
Work
to
die
for
us
.
How
good
is
it
therefore
for
us
to
consider
the
Danger
that
arises
from
mistaken
and
unsound
Principles
,
if
we
would
not
be
found
guilty
of
this
Sin
of
Vain-Glory
?
The
truth
is
,
some
good
Men
are
so
misled
,
that
they
make
the
new
Covenant
a
mere
conditional
Covenant
,
and
if
after
all
Christ
hath
done
,
their
Interest
in
it
and
eternal
Life
wholly
depends
upon
the
weak
and
wavering
Principles
of
the
depraved
Creature
,
and
his
stubborn
and
rebellious
Will
has
its
negative
Voice
:
and
if
the
Creature
works
not
,
complies
not
to
those
Conditions
required
,
the
whole
of
Redemption-Work
may
be
lost
,
and
not
one
Soul
redeemed
.
And
were
it
thus
,
there
is
more
reason
to
believe
Christ
would
have
lost
all
his
Labour
and
infinite
Kindness
,
than
otherwise
.
Since
Man
is
naturally
so
depraved
and
averse
to
that
which
is
truly
good
,
having
such
Enmity
in
his
Heart
against
God
,
and
is
wholly
under
the
Power
and
Government
of
the
Devil
,
and
this
also
would
render
the
new
Covenant
not
better
,
nay
,
not
so
good
as
the
first
;
for
then
Man
was
a
perfect
Creature
,
having
not
then
such
a
captivating
Power
of
Sin
nor
Satan
in
him
,
but
had
a
Power
of
Will
to
stand
,
if
he
had
exercised
it
,
and
resisted
the
Tempter
from
without
.
There
is
one
thing
more
I
shall
note
,
before
I
leave
this
Point
:
'T
is
easy
to
perceive
from
hence
,
what
Grace
it
is
that
Man
may
fall
from
,
I
mean
finally
and
totally
fall
,
i.
e.
whatsoever
Men
may
act
or
do
from
those
common
Operations
of
the
Spirit
,
or
by
the
Power
of
natural
Conscience
,
under
the
external
Preaching
of
the
Word
,
or
means
of
the
Rod
or
Afflictions
,
by
the
Assistance
or
Help
of
which
I
doubt
not
he
may
become
another
Man
,
a
great
Professor
,
pray
,
hear
the
Word
,
have
a
sort
of
Faith
,
viz.
that
of
Credence
,
be
baptized
,
and
so
become
a
Church-Member
,
yea
,
a
Preacher
,
and
may
be
in
the
Sight
of
Men
of
a
blameless
Life
and
Conversation
,
and
yet
never
changed
in
Heart
,
or
regenerated
by
the
effectual
and
special
Operations
of
Christ's
Spirit
,
nor
have
Union
with
Christ
:
From
this
Grace
,
or
such
a
reformed
Life
and
Profession
of
Religion
,
a
Person
may
fall
away
,
and
indeed
rise
no
more
.
And
such
I
conclude
the
stony
and
thorny-ground-Professors
were
.
Moreover
,
't
is
as
evident
that
the
good-ground
,
viz.
the
honest-hearted
Person
,
brought
forth
Fruit
to
Life
eternal
,
and
fell
not
finally
and
totally
away
from
the
Grace
of
God.
If
any
ask
,
how
it
came
to
pass
any
of
the
ground
is
said
to
be
good
?
I
answer
.
Naturally
all
the
Hearts
of
Men
and
Women
are
evil
,
the
Defection
was
universal
.
But
these
Hearts
of
Men
who
are
said
to
be
good
ground
,
were
prepared
for
the
Word
;
by
which
means
,
through
the
Spirit
,
they
came
to
be
regenerated
,
their
Hearts
were
plowed
up
or
broken
in
pieces
by
the
Word
and
Spirit
in
effectual
Convictions
.
Plow
up
the
fallow
Ground
,
(
saith
the
Lord
by
the
Prophet
)
and
sow
not
amongst
Thorns
.
Not
that
Man
is
able
to
do
this
,
any
more
than
he
is
to
make
himself
a
new
Heart
,
which
he
is
likewise
required
to
do
,
Ezek.
18.
11.
but
the
former
is
the
Work
of
the
Spirit
by
Convictions
;
the
latter
the
Work
of
the
Spirit
in
Regeneration
.
Till
the
Heart
is
pierced
by
the
Holy
Ghost
,
and
broken
to
pieces
and
made
soft
,
which
naturally
is
hard
,
the
Word
can
find
no
saving
or
effectual
rooting
there
,
but
't
is
like
a
Rock
,
or
so
stony
or
thorny
,
that
no
Fruit
of
the
Word
will
abide
to
everlasting
Life
.
Therefore
I
conclude
,
effectual
Convictions
are
a
Preparative
,
or
a
Preparation
to
Regeneration
;
the
Spirit
is
a
Spirit
of
Burning
before
't
is
a
Spirit
of
Consolation
:
it
first
plows
up
the
Fallow-ground
,
and
then
when
the
Seed
is
sown
,
it
will
take
Root
,
and
bring
forth
Fruit
to
Salvation
.
Fifthly
.
Moreover
,
Formality
,
it
may
appear
to
all
,
from
hence
is
another
Evil
that
does
attend
this
sort
of
Men
,
or
is
another
wicked
Spirit
that
hath
possession
of
their
Souls
.
What
a
stir
did
the
Pharisees
make
about
Ceremonies
?
how
zealous
were
they
,
like
some
now
adays
for
outward
Rituals
and
Traditions
of
their
own
devising
,
or
which
are
mere
humane
;
as
if
the
chief
part
of
Religion
,
and
the
sacred
Worship
of
God
,
consisted
in
external
Forms
,
Rites
,
and
Ceremonies
;
And
art
confident
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
that
thou
thy self
art
a
Guide
of
the
Blind
,
a
Light
to
them
who
are
in
Darkness
,
an
Instructer
of
the
foolish
,
a
Teacher
of
Babes
,
which
hast
a
form
of
Knowledg
,
and
of
the
Truth
in
the
Law.
A
Scheme
or
System
of
Notions
,
a
compendious
Model
or
Method
which
is
artificially
composed
,
such
as
Tutors
and
Professors
of
Arts
and
Sciences
do
read
over
again
and
again
to
their
Pupils
and
Auditors
:
these
Men
are
commonly
the
chief
Enemies
to
the
Power
of
Religion
and
Godliness
,
and
like
their
Brethren
of
old
,
great
Persecutors
of
God's
faithful
and
sincere
Children
,
whilst
they
cry
up
their
external
Forms
,
considering
not
what
our
Saviour
saith
,
that
God
is
a
Spirit
,
and
seeks
spiritual
Worshippers
of
him
,
not
formal
,
not
external
,
or
carnal
Modes
,
bodily
Gestures
,
consecrated
Places
,
attended
with
glorious
Ceremonies
,
saying
over
a
few
Prayers
,
in
which
are
many
vain
Repetitions
,
not
minding
whether
their
matter
of
Worship
be
of
Divine
Institution
or
not
,
nor
whether
they
perform
their
Devotion
in
the
Spirit
of
Jesus
Christ
,
flowing
from
a
rectified
Nature
,
and
from
sacred
Principles
in
the
Life
and
Power
that
attends
all
sanctified
Christian
Worshippers
.
Others
of
the
same
sort
may
be
right
in
the
matter
of
Worship
,
seeming
to
hate
Idolatry
and
all
Superstition
,
yet
wholly
resting
on
the
external
part
of
Religion
and
Godliness
,
whose
state
may
be
as
dangerous
as
those
before
named
;
though
in
this
they
seem
to
excel
them
,
i.
e.
they
first
miss
it
both
in
the
matter
of
Divine
Worship
,
as
well
as
in
the
manner
of
it
,
they
are
zealous
for
the
Traditions
and
Commandments
of
Men
:
as
they
are
formal
in
their
Worship
;
so
their
Form
is
not
that
form
of
Doctrine
once
delivered
to
the
Saints
;
't
is
not
the
true
form
of
Godliness
,
having
[
a
form
]
of
Godliness
,
not
[
the
form
;
]
't
is
like
a
Mask
,
or
Vizard
,
or
Appearance
,
an
accidental
form
(
as
one
observes
on
that
place
,
)
't
is
a
devised
,
or
an
humane
,
nay
may
be
an
Antichristian
Form
,
thinking
themselves
to
be
Christians
,
and
the
only
Worshippers
of
Christ
,
and
cry
up
themselves
to
be
the
Church
,
the
Church
,
and
yet
under
this
Vizard
and
pretended
Piety
are
very
vitious
,
empty
and
vain
:
and
though
they
deny
not
the
Power
of
Godliness
in
Words
,
yet
do
deny
it
in
their
Practice
,
making
a
Profession
,
but
Strangers
to
that
Life
,
Peace
,
Love
,
Faith
,
and
Self-denial
,
which
attends
and
doth
accompany
all
true
Christians
.
But
the
other
sort
,
though
they
are
formal
,
yet
't
is
a
better
Form
,
hence
may
be
called
Virgins
,
that
is
,
such
who
have
not
,
will
not
,
defile
themselves
with
Women
;
that
is
,
with
false
Churches
,
with
Idolatry
,
or
the
Superstitions
of
Men
,
these
are
for
the
Gospel-Form
,
the
Gospel-Doctrine
,
Gospel-Precepts
and
Ordinances
;
these
are
not
for
a
Form
of
Prayer
,
nor
for
any
other
Form
of
Worship
,
but
what
Christ
himself
ordained
,
as
it
is
contained
in
the
New
Testament
:
These
may
be
Members
of
a
True
Church
,
and
worship
with
that
Church
,
and
be
as
zealous
for
the
outward
and
external
Parts
and
Ordinances
as
any
;
like
those
we
read
of
,
Isa
.
1.
11
,
12
,
13.
Sacrifices
and
Burnt-Offerings
,
Prayer
,
Incense
,
New-Moons
,
Sabbaths
,
and
calling
of
Assemblies
,
with
appointed
Feasts
,
which
were
Institutions
of
God.
But
these
Men
resting
on
them
,
and
having
unsanctified
Hearts
and
Lives
,
God
hated
them
,
and
loathed
their
Services
,
being
not
performed
in
Faith
,
and
hearty
Love
,
and
sincere
Resolutions
:
that
which
they
did
,
was
but
as
if
they
had
offered
up
a
dead
Carcase
instead
of
a
living
Sacrifice
;
He
that
killeth
an
Ox
,
is
as
if
he
slew
a
Man
;
and
he
that
sacrifices
a
Lamb
,
as
if
he
cut
off
a
Dog's
Neck
;
and
he
that
offereth
an
Oblation
,
as
if
he
offered
Swines
Blood
;
he
that
burneth
Incense
,
as
if
he
blessed
an
Idol
.
Such
who
shew
never
so
much
Zeal
for
the
visible
Worship
of
God
,
and
for
all
his
Ordinances
,
if
only
formal
in
their
performances
,
are
abominated
by
the
Lord
:
't
is
not
a
Lamp
without
Oil
,
a
Name
without
the
Nature
,
a
Form
of
Godliness
without
the
Power
,
will
avail
any
Person
.
O
how
do
many
Professors
deceive
themselves
?
Sirs
,
all
is
and
will
be
in
vain
,
if
the
Root
of
the
Matter
be
not
in
you
,
if
not
sincere
,
truly
gracious
,
the
garnish
of
outward
Worship
,
or
formal
Services
,
or
the
Cloak
of
a
visible
Profession
will
not
cover
you
from
God's
all-searching
Eye
;
he
sees
through
all
this
Deceit
,
and
beholds
your
inward
Pride
,
Vain-glory
,
and
horrid
pollution
of
your
Hearts
and
Lives
:
't
is
all
one
to
be
of
a
false
Religion
as
to
own
the
true
,
if
not
sincere
Christians
;
these
have
such
unclean
Spirits
in
them
,
that
their
State
is
worse
than
before
they
made
no
profession
at
all
;
these
Devils
are
stronger
than
the
first
,
have
more
cunning
,
craft
,
and
subtilty
to
deceive
and
blind
the
Eyes
,
and
so
destroy
the
Soul
,
than
those
who
rule
in
open
prophane
People
;
for
these
are
commonly
Men
of
great
Light
and
Understanding
,
can
discourse
well
concerning
Religion
,
and
some
of
the
deep
things
of
God
,
or
the
Mysteries
of
the
Gospel
;
they
can
tell
you
the
insufficiency
or
disability
of
Man
to
keep
the
Law
,
and
how
impossible
't
is
to
be
justified
in
the
sight
of
God
by
it
;
as
also
the
absolute
necessity
of
Faith
and
Regeneration
.
These
are
not
only
averse
to
all
humane
Innovations
and
Traditions
of
Men
,
and
so
contend
for
God's
Holy
Institutions
in
respect
of
his
visible
Worship
,
(
as
I
told
you
before
)
but
seem
to
be
inlightned
very
much
into
that
internal
Work
of
God's
Grace
upon
the
Soul
,
&c.
but
never
come
themselves
under
those
saving
Operations
of
the
Spirit
,
but
rest
in
the
Speculative
Knowledg
of
those
Mysteries
,
and
are
meer
empty
and
formal
Persons
,
and
Strangers
to
that
Divine
Life
,
and
sacred
Change
of
which
they
speak
,
and
yet
possibly
may
not
be
throughly
convinced
of
that
deceit
and
delusion
they
are
under
,
but
may
hope
all
is
well
with
them
;
but
since
they
are
not
savingly
renewed
,
but
only
reformed
,
having
not
Jesus
Christ
dwelling
in
their
Hearts
,
nor
the
Power
of
the
Holy
Ghost
to
enable
and
influence
their
Souls
in
the
performance
of
their
Duties
,
and
in
mortification
of
their
Sins
and
Corruptions
,
they
are
frequently
overcome
by
Satan
,
and
horrid
Evils
prevail
and
predominate
in
them
,
by
which
means
they
bring
great
reproach
upon
Religion
,
and
all
those
who
do
profess
it
:
hence
the
Apostle
calls
this
sort
,
the
Enemies
of
the
Cross
of
Christ
,
Phil.
3.
18.
and
this
further
aggravates
their
Sin
and
Misery
,
for
whilst
openly
prophane
,
and
not
pretending
to
Religion
and
Godliness
,
they
could
not
injure
the
Name
of
God
,
nor
expose
the
Gospel
and
Professors
thereof
to
that
scorn
and
reproach
as
now
they
do
.
Sinners
openly
wicked
,
though
notorious
and
vile
Enemies
to
God
,
yet
the
hurt
and
wrong
they
do
is
especially
to
their
own
Souls
;
but
these
by
their
carnal
earthly
Pr●●●
,
loose
and
formal
walking
,
hinder
the
promulgation
of
the
Gospel
,
and
Conversion
of
the
Souls
of
Men
,
besides
their
weakning
the
Hands
,
and
grieving
the
Hearts
of
the
truly
Godly
.
Moreover
,
they
also
pollute
and
defile
(
too
often
)
the
Church
of
Jesus
Christ
,
and
bring
great
trouble
upon
the
same
.
Hence
there
is
in
most
Congregations
who
keep
up
a
strict
and
regular
Discipline
〈◊〉
so
much
Church-work
,
which
makes
the
Communion
of
the
Saints
the
more
uncomfortable
to
them
:
for
though
it
cannot
be
denied
but
sincere
Persons
may
fall
under
Sin
and
Temptation
,
and
so
all
the
trouble
of
Churches
,
and
Reproach
that
falls
upon
Religion
,
doth
not
arise
from
these
counterfeit
Christians
,
or
formal
Professors
;
yet
doubtless
the
chiefest
part
of
them
do
.
It
is
said
,
Offences
will
come
,
but
wo
to
them
by
whom
the
Offence
comes
.
From
all
which
considerations
their
state
seems
worse
in
many
degrees
than
before
.
Sixthly
;
The
wicked
Spirit
,
or
abominable
Sin
that
some
of
these
Mens
Souls
are
also
possessed
with
,
is
Legality
.
And
though
this
clearly
appears
by
what
I
have
already
said
,
yet
I
shall
speak
a
little
more
fully
and
distinctly
unto
it
.
All
that
these
Persons
do
and
perform
,
is
in
a
legal
Spirit
;
and
that
I
may
shew
you
what
I
mean
by
Legality
,
in
short
it
is
this
,
i.
e.
They
act
and
do
for
Life
,
look
upon
themselves
to
be
under
a
conditional
Covenant
;
and
whilst
they
live
up
to
that
Law
or
Rule
which
they
judg
they
are
bound
to
observe
and
keep
,
in
order
to
Justification
,
they
have
Peace
,
rendring
the
Gospel
and
Covenant
of
Grace
(
by
their
false
Apprehensions
of
it
)
no
better
than
a
legal
Ministration
or
conditional
Covenant
,
as
was
hinted
before
in
respect
of
another
sort
of
Men
:
For
like
as
the
Jews
of
old
acted
in
a
legal
Spirit
,
and
sought
to
be
justified
by
the
Works
of
the
Law
,
so
these
perform
all
their
Services
and
Duties
in
the
same
Spirit
,
viz.
not
from
Life
,
or
a
Divine
Principle
of
Saving-Faith
,
but
for
Life
.
To
keep
the
Commandments
of
God
,
and
live
religiously
,
is
absolutely
necessary
.
But
then
this
must
be
done
from
a
renewed
Nature
,
and
flows
from
Faith
,
it
being
the
proper
Effect
or
Fruit
thereof
;
but
to
strive
to
live
a
sober
and
holy
Life
,
and
obey
God's
Precepts
,
and
rest
upon
their
so
doing
,
and
look
to
be
accepted
with
God
,
and
justified
thereby
,
is
that
which
too
many
of
this
sort
of
People
do
,
and
this
is
to
act
in
a
legal
Spirit
.
Possibly
a
Man
may
say
,
I
know
I
cannot
perfectly
keep
the
Law
,
but
I
will
do
(
by
the
help
of
God
)
what
I
can
;
and
wherein
I
through
weakness
do
transgress
,
the
Lord
is
merciful
,
and
I
trust
will
forgive
me
.
But
let
me
remember
what
God
saith
,
viz.
That
he
will
in
no
wise
clear
the
Guilty
.
Moreover
,
what
the
Law
saith
,
it
saith
to
them
that
are
under
the
Law
,
that
all
Mouths
may
be
stopped
,
and
the
whole
World
become
guilty
before
God.
'T
is
evident
,
as
God
will
not
forgive
an
impenitent
Person
,
so
he
will
not
forgive
the
Penitent
,
except
they
believe
in
Jesus
Christ
.
'T
is
not
for
the
sake
or
worth
of
Repentance
that
God
forgives
any
Man
,
the
Penitent
as
well
as
the
Impenitent
are
guilty
,
all
have
broke
the
Law
,
all
are
under
Sin
and
Wrath
,
Repentance
will
not
do
,
a
holy
Life
will
not
do
,
Prayer
and
hearing
Sermons
will
not
do
;
By
the
Deeds
of
the
Law
(
and
by
any
thing
we
can
do
)
no
Flesh
shall
be
justified
.
If
Men
believe
not
on
Christ
,
let
them
be
what
they
will
,
Professors
or
Prophane
,
they
shall
die
in
their
Sins
:
God
pardons
no
Sinner
as
a
simple
Act
of
his
Mercy
,
without
a
respect
had
to
the
Satisfaction
Christ
hath
made
to
his
offended
Justice
by
his
Death
:
And
hence
it
is
that
the
Apostle
saith
,
All
have
sinned
,
and
come
short
of
the
Glory
of
God
,
being
justified
freely
by
his
Grace
,
through
the
Redemption
that
is
in
Jesus
Christ
;
whom
God
hath
set
forth
to
be
a
Propitiation
,
through
Faith
in
his
Blood
,
to
declare
his
Righteousness
for
the
remission
of
Sins
that
are
past
,
through
the
forbearance
of
God.
Therefore
God
doth
not
accept
of
our
Obedience
in
keeping
the
Precepts
,
either
of
the
Old
or
New
Testament
,
and
forgive
all
our
Deviations
as
a
meer
Act
of
his
Mercy
;
for
if
this
way
Righteousness
and
Justification
were
attainable
,
't
is
evident
Christ
died
in
vain
,
as
I
said
before
;
for
could
not
God
have
done
this
,
if
Christ
had
never
come
to
shed
his
precious
Blood
?
I
remember
some
Years
ago
,
I
heard
of
a
Man
who
lying
on
his
Death-bed
,
when
a
Godly
Person
desired
him
to
look
out
for
a
Christ
;
answered
,
He
had
lived
a
godly
Life
all
along
,
and
why
(
said
he
)
do
you
tell
me
of
a
Christ
?
or
to
that
effect
.
He
thought
,
(
't
is
evident
,
)
none
needed
a
Christ
but
prophane
Persons
;
and
I
fear
many
are
of
his
Mind
,
tho
they
express
it
not
as
he
did
,
with
their
Tongues
.
But
possibly
some
may
say
,
We
do
not
think
that
our
Righteousness
justifies
us
any
otherwise
than
through
Christ
'
s
Merits
.
To
which
I
answer
;
'T
is
not
throug
our
personal
Righteousness
,
though
joined
or
coupled
with
Christ's
Merits
,
that
we
are
justified
,
but
through
the
personal
Righteousness
of
Christ
alone
,
and
the
Merits
of
his
Blood
received
by
Faith
;
't
is
in
this
way
,
and
only
by
this
way
we
must
be
saved
if
ever
we
come
to
Heaven
,
Another
Foundation
can
no
Man
lay
.
He
that
believeth
not
,
shall
be
damned
.
Let
him
be
what
he
will
,
Righteous
or
Wicked
,
't
is
a
great
Error
to
think
that
Christ's
Merits
make
our
Services
or
Performances
meritorious
:
though
〈◊〉
are
accepted
thereby
when
they
flow
from
Faith
,
yet
not
as
the
Spring
,
or
procuring
Cause
of
our
Justification
.
To
close
with
this
,
let
me
add
one
thing
further
,
which
shews
the
Danger
these
Persons
are
in
.
This
Errour
is
a
capital
One
,
't
is
to
err
in
a
main
Fundamental
of
Religion
,
and
therefore
Heresy
,
a
damnable
Principle
.
And
hence
the
Apostle
calls
it
,
a
subverting
the
Souls
of
such
who
receive
it
.
And
it
was
also
from
hence
God
gave
the
Jews
up
to
Judicial
Blindness
,
i.
e.
because
they
went
about
to
establish
their
own
Righteousness
,
and
did
not
submit
to
the
Righteousness
of
God.
According
as
it
is
written
,
God
hath
given
them
the
Spirit
of
Slumber
,
Eyes
that
they
should
not
see
,
and
Ears
that
they
should
not
hear
.
That
must
needs
be
a
dangerous
Evil
,
that
provokes
the
Holy
God
thus
to
leave
and
give
up
a
Person
to
blindness
of
Mind
,
and
final
Impenitency
;
for
such
must
needs
perish
of
necessity
.
Therefore
in
the
last
place
it
follows
,
that
the
state
of
these
People
is
worse
than
it
was
when
they
were
no
Professors
of
Religion
at
all
,
but
were
openly
wicked
and
prophane
Sinners
:
these
unclean
Spirits
are
worse
than
the
first
.
And
from
hence
let
all
take
heed
how
they
mix
Law
and
Gospel
together
in
the
case
of
Justification
.
If
by
Grace
,
then
is
it
no
more
of
Works
,
otherwise
Grace
is
no
Grace
.
But
if
it
be
of
Works
,
then
it
is
no
more
Grace
,
otherwise
Work
is
no
more
Work.
There
is
no
mixing
of
the
Merits
of
good
Works
and
the
free
Grace
of
God
together
,
but
one
of
these
doth
exclude
and
destroy
the
Nature
of
the
other
:
for
if
Election
and
Justification
were
partly
of
Grace
,
and
partly
of
(
or
from
foreseen
)
Works
,
then
Grace
is
no
Grace
,
and
Works
no
Works
.
For
whatsoever
proceedeth
of
Grace
,
(
as
one
observes
)
that
cometh
freely
,
and
not
of
Debt
;
but
whatsoever
cometh
by
Merits
or
Works
,
that
cometh
by
Debt
.
But
now
Debt
,
and
free
Grace
,
or
that
which
is
free
and
absolutely
by
Grace
,
and
that
by
desert
,
are
quite
contrary
things
:
therefore
to
say
Men
are
Called
and
Justified
,
partly
by
Grace
,
and
partly
by
Works
,
(
or
by
whatsoever
is
done
by
the
Creature
)
this
were
to
put
such
things
together
that
cannot
agree
,
for
't
is
to
make
Merit
no
Merit
,
Debt
no
Debt
,
Works
no
Works
,
Grace
no
Grace
,
and
so
affirm
and
deny
one
and
the
same
thing
.
Therefore
how
absurd
a
thing
is
it
for
Men
to
mix
the
Law
and
Gospel
together
in
this
sense
,
or
make
that
which
is
the
Creature
's
Act
or
Work
,
a
procuring
Cause
of
acceptance
and
Justification
in
God's
sight
?
seeing
it
utterly
destroys
the
nature
of
Grace
,
and
so
consequently
the
glorious
Design
,
of
God's
eternal
Purpose
in
Jesus
Christ
,
and
that
blessed
Covenant
of
his
confirmed
by
the
Mediator
thereof
.
Where
the
Creature
is
wholly
abased
,
and
the
free
Grace
of
God
alone
exalted
,
Man
is
not
a
co-worker
or
co-partner
with
God
:
therefore
those
Principles
that
have
a
natural
tendency
so
to
do
,
ought
to
be
abominated
by
all
good
Christians
.
But
it
is
objected
,
That
we
are
said
to
be
justified
by
Faith
,
and
also
that
Repentance
is
required
as
a
Condition
of
Salvation
,
&c.
1.
I
answer
;
Some
put
Faith
in
the
room
and
place
of
perfect
Obedience
to
the
Law
;
and
that
Faith
which
they
speak
of
they
affirm
is
the
sole
Act
of
the
Creature
:
But
this
certainly
is
a
grand
Errour
,
for
it
would
make
our
Justification
to
be
still
by
Works
,
and
so
destroy
the
Nature
of
God's
free
Grace
:
for
that
which
is
the
Creature
's
Act
,
is
all
one
with
the
Creature
's
Work
;
't
is
but
to
change
one
Work
of
the
Creature
to
another
;
from
an
external
Work
of
the
Life
,
to
an
internal
Work
of
the
Heart
.
For
,
as
Mr.
Cary
well
observes
,
'T
is
Christ's
perfect
Righteousness
and
Obedience
only
which
is
put
into
the
room
and
place
of
ours
,
to
justify
and
save
us
,
and
his
Sufferings
take
away
the
Curse
which
our
Disobedience
brought
upon
us
.
Faith
therefore
is
only
the
instrumental
Cause
of
our
Justification
,
't
is
only
as
an
Instrument
or
Way
of
our
receiving
and
applying
the
Righteousness
of
Christ
,
if
it
justifies
,
as
a
Condition
of
the
New
Covenant
,
(
as
Works
were
required
under
the
Old
)
;
and
as
that
act
or
work
injoined
on
our
part
to
be
done
by
us
as
Antecedent
to
the
benefit
of
the
Promise
,
that
would
make
our
Act
or
Work
the
formal
Cause
of
our
Justification
,
and
so
render
the
Terms
of
the
New-Covenant
much
of
the
same
Nature
with
the
Old.
Faith
is
not
our
Righteousness
in
it self
,
as
a
Work
,
but
in
relation
to
Christ
the
Object
of
it
,
or
as
an
Act
of
receiving
and
applying
his
Righteousness
and
Merits
;
as
Eating
nourisheth
,
though
it
be
the
Meat
that
doth
it
in
this
sense
.
Him
that
worketh
not
,
but
believeth
on
him
that
justifies
the
ungodly
,
his
Faith
is
counted
for
Righteousness
.
And
now
whereas
the
Apostle
James
speaks
of
Works
justifying
,
and
not
Faith
only
,
Jam.
2.
24.
it
is
easy
to
be
comprehended
,
and
the
great
Apostle
of
the
Gentiles
and
he
reconciled
.
Paul
speaks
of
the
Cause
of
our
Justification
before
God
,
and
James
of
the
Signs
of
our
Justification
before
Men
;
or
shews
how
our
good
Works
justify
our
Faith
:
The
one
speaks
of
the
Imputation
of
Righteousness
,
the
other
of
the
Declaration
of
our
Righteousness
;
or
one
speaks
of
the
Office
of
Faith
,
the
other
of
the
Quality
of
Faith
;
the
one
speaks
of
the
Justification
of
the
Person
,
the
other
of
the
Faith
of
that
Person
;
the
one
speaks
of
Abraham
to
be
justified
,
the
other
of
Abraham
already
justified
.
Moreover
,
2.
That
Faith
by
which
we
are
said
to
be
justified
,
is
as
much
the
Free-Gift
of
God's
Grace
to
us
,
as
Christ
is
the
Free-Gift
of
his
Grace
for
us
:
and
hence
Faith
is
called
the
Gift
of
God
Eph.
2.
8
,
9.
and
also
a
Fruit
of
the
Spirit
,
Gal.
5.
22.
And
as
it
is
a
Grace
wrought
in
us
,
so
also
such
a
Grace
that
was
promised
to
us
as
part
of
Christ's
Purchase
;
To
you
it
is
given
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
in
the
behalf
of
Christ
,
not
only
to
believe
,
but
also
to
suffer
for
his
sake
;
that
is
,
it
is
given
freely
of
God's
meer
Grace
,
yet
upon
the
account
of
Christ's
Merits
and
Mediation
.
Their
believing
in
Christ
was
not
in
their
own
Power
;
No
Man
can
come
to
me
,
that
is
,
believe
in
me
,
except
it
were
given
unto
him
of
my
Father
:
And
all
that
the
Father
hath
given
to
me
,
shall
come
unto
me
,
that
is
,
believe
on
me
.
And
again
,
No
Man
can
come
unto
me
,
except
the
Father
which
sent
me
draw
him
.
That
by
the
drawing
here
,
is
not
meant
of
any
coaction
or
force
upon
the
Will
,
is
out
of
Question
;
the
Will
acts
freely
according
to
the
Nature
of
that
Faculty
,
but
as
it
is
acted
and
influenced
by
the
Spirit
;
according
to
that
Text
in
the
Psalms
,
My
People
shall
be
willing
in
the
Day
of
my
Power
:
But
that
it
is
to
be
understood
only
of
a
rational
drawing
,
by
Arguments
used
in
the
Ministry
of
the
Word
,
we
do
deny
;
though
in
this
sense
some
do
take
it
,
and
conclude
,
it
is
of
the
same
import
with
that
compelling
mentioned
,
Luk.
14.
23.
for
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
(
as
one
observes
)
have
no
other
Power
to
compel
.
But
the
Act
of
drawing
here
is
not
ascribed
to
the
Servants
,
but
to
the
Master
,
not
the
Preacher
,
but
the
Father
;
therefore
doubtless
it
signifies
a
Divine
Power
put
forth
upon
the
Soul
of
Man
,
by
which
the
Lord
opens
the
Heart
,
as
he
did
the
Heart
of
Lydia
,
so
that
he
is
made
obedient
to
the
call
of
God
,
and
willing
to
close
with
the
Offer
of
Christ
.
And
that
this
must
be
the
meaning
of
the
Text
,
it
is
rational
to
conclude
,
considering
the
nature
of
the
motion
in
coming
unto
Christ
,
which
is
the
motion
of
the
Soul
to
a
sublime
spiritual
Object
to
do
;
which
as
no
Soul
hath
any
power
of
it self
,
such
is
the
darkness
of
the
Mind
,
the
obstinacy
of
the
Will
,
and
pravity
of
the
Affections
,
unless
influenced
and
wrought
upon
by
the
Spirit
.
So
in
like
manner
nothing
is
proud
Man
naturally
more
averse
to
,
cannot
indure
to
think
he
is
such
a
poor
Miscreant
,
a
mere
beggarly
Wretch
,
that
he
has
not
so
much
as
a
bit
of
Bread
to
eat
,
nor
a
Garment
,
in
a
spiritual
sense
,
to
cover
him
,
but
must
be
beholden
to
his
Neighbour
for
all
:
For
as
no
Soul
is
able
,
without
supernatural
Grace
,
to
apprehend
spiritual
Things
[
cannot
]
discern
them
;
so
there
is
in
his
mind
enmity
against
God
,
for
it
is
not
subject
to
the
Law
of
God
,
neither
indeed
[
can
]
be
.
From
all
which
I
have
said
,
it
appears
Faith
(
as
before
hinted
)
is
not
the
Condition
of
Justification
,
tho
the
Way
or
Means
appointed
to
receive
that
Righteousness
that
doth
justify
the
Sinner
;
so
likewise
Faith
is
God's
Gift
.
Yet
't
is
foolish
to
say
,
Man
doth
not
believe
,
but
rather
the
Spirit
for
him
,
because
he
cannot
believe
by
any
natural
Power
inherent
in
him
,
till
he
is
divinely
influenced
by
the
Holy
Ghost
:
For
such
may
as
well
say
,
Lazarus
did
not
live
,
or
it
was
not
his
Life
which
he
had
after
quickned
,
because
it
was
infused
into
him
by
the
Power
and
Spirit
of
Christ
.
Therefore
this
and
the
former
Objection
are
both
gone
,
and
the
supposed
Condition
of
the
New
Covenant
vanquished
,
since
Faith
it self
being
the
Fruit
of
it
,
cannot
be
the
Condition
thereof
.
But
saith
the
Objector
,
If
Faith
and
Repentance
be
not
Conditions
of
the
Covenant
of
Grace
,
then
those
whom
God
hath
appointed
to
Salvation
,
shall
be
saved
whether
they
believe
,
or
repent
,
or
no.
To
which
we
answer
;
That
Faith
and
Repentance
,
&c.
are
Promises
of
the
New
Covenant
,
as
well
as
Justification
and
Eternal
Life
;
and
he
that
hath
ordained
the
End
,
hath
also
ordained
the
Means
:
I
will
put
my
Law
into
their
inward
Parts
,
and
write
it
in
their
Hearts
,
and
will
be
their
God
,
and
they
shall
be
my
People
.
And
I
will
make
an
everlasting
Covenant
with
them
,
that
I
will
not
turn
away
from
doing
them
good
,
but
I
will
put
my
Fear
into
their
Hearts
,
that
they
shall
not
depart
from
me
.
That
God
who
hath
promised
to
make
us
Happy
,
hath
also
promised
to
make
us
Holy
;
he
hath
promised
Grace
to
us
here
,
and
to
change
our
Hearts
of
Stone
,
and
to
give
us
Hearts
of
Flesh
,
as
well
as
he
hath
promised
to
give
us
Glory
hereafter
.
Our
being
called
in
Time
,
is
but
the
effect
of
God's
eternal
Love
before
Time
,
because
he
hath
loved
us
with
an
everlasting
love
;
therefore
with
loving
kindness
hath
he
drawn
us
.
We
are
called
by
the
free
Grace
of
God
according
to
his
purpose
,
as
well
as
justified
and
eternally
saved
.
We
are
predestinated
that
we
may
be
conformable
to
the
Image
of
his
Son
in
Holiness
here
on
Earth
,
as
well
as
in
Heaven
hereafter
.
If
Men
are
left
under
the
power
of
their
Sins
,
or
only
to
the
bare
improvements
of
their
own
natural
Abilities
in
a
meer
reformed
Life
,
and
never
brought
by
the
free
Grace
of
God
to
believe
in
Jesus
Christ
,
and
so
to
have
real
Union
with
him
,
't
is
an
evident
sign
they
shall
never
be
saved
,
they
being
none
of
them
that
the
Father
hath
given
to
Christ
;
for
,
saith
he
,
all
that
the
Father
giveth
to
me
,
shall
come
unto
me
;
and
in
these
only
are
infused
the
Divine
Habits
of
Saving-Grace
.
The
Apostle
positively
affirms
,
that
God
hath
chosen
us
in
Christ
before
the
Foundation
of
the
World
,
that
we
should
be
Holy
,
and
without
blame
before
him
in
love
;
not
only
chosen
to
Salvation
which
is
the
End
,
but
to
Holiness
as
the
Means
:
Not
because
we
are
Holy
are
we
chosen
,
but
that
we
may
be
Holy
;
but
this
ought
not
to
take
any
Soul
from
the
use
of
the
Means
.
And
as
a
clear
demonstration
and
illustration
of
this
,
I
might
mention
that
passage
concerning
Paul's
Voyage
to
Rome
,
in
respect
of
that
assurance
God
gave
him
of
the
Lives
of
all
that
were
with
him
in
the
Ship
;
the
Angel
of
God
appeared
to
him
,
and
said
,
And
lo
,
God
hath
given
thee
all
them
that
sail
with
thee
.
Wherefore
,
Sirs
,
be
of
good
chear
,
for
I
believe
God
,
that
it
shall
be
as
it
was
told
me
.
This
Promise
was
absolute
,
yet
see
what
Paul
said
to
them
,
Except
ye
abide
in
the
Ship
,
ye
cannot
be
saved
.
That
God
that
hath
promised
us
Salvation
,
doth
not
save
us
without
the
use
of
Means
,
although
the
efficaciousness
and
truth
of
the
Promise
,
does
no
ways
depend
upon
the
virtue
of
the
Means
,
but
the
Means
are
made
effectual
by
virtue
of
the
Promise
,
yet
whoever
neglects
the
Means
,
under
any
pretence
of
a
free
Promise
,
he
does
but
tempt
God
,
but
doth
not
(
as
some
observe
)
rightly
believe
in
him
.
Seventhly
;
Amongst
the
wicked
Spirits
that
are
entred
into
this
Man
,
namely
,
into
this
Counterfeit
Christian
,
that
horrid
and
wicked
Spirit
of
Unbelief
must
not
be
left
out
,
for
tho
this
Sin
of
Sins
is
in
all
unconverted
Persons
,
yet
it
reigns
and
triumphs
more
in
this
sort
of
People
than
in
others
.
Prophane
Persons
are
kept
up
by
a
false
Faith
,
depending
,
as
they
will
tell
you
,
on
the
Death
and
Merits
of
Christ
,
tho
't
is
only
cursed
presumption
in
them
;
for
that
cannot
be
a
true
Faith
,
which
changes
not
the
Heart
and
Life
of
the
Creature
.
But
they
believe
not
,
by
reason
of
love
to
their
Sins
,
which
they
are
not
as
yet
willing
to
forgo
.
But
these
believe
not
on
Christ
,
because
of
that
love
which
they
have
to
their
own
seeming
Righteousness
,
which
in
point
of
Trust
,
Hope
,
and
Dependance
,
they
also
are
not
willing
to
forgo
.
These
Men
place
that
Hope
on
their
own
Works
and
Righteousness
,
which
true
Christians
place
on
Christ
,
and
so
unbelief
in
them
throws
Christ
quite
away
,
they
having
no
need
of
him
.
1.
What
is
Unbelief
,
but
an
actual
or
vertual
denial
of
the
Truth
of
the
Gospel
,
when
Men
do
not
assent
to
the
Doctrine
of
it
,
by
an
act
of
the
Understanding
?
2.
'T
is
a
refusal
to
accept
heartily
of
Christ
upon
the
Terms
of
the
Gospel
,
which
is
opposite
to
Justifying-Faith
,
when
there
is
not
a
fiducial
Motion
to
Christ
as
the
Center
.
When
Christ
,
the
only
Foundation
and
chief
Corner-Stone
,
is
laid
aside
,
and
the
Need
and
Worth
of
him
not
believed
.
This
Sin
binds
all
the
Guilt
of
all
their
old
and
new
Sins
upon
their
Souls
,
't
is
a
Sin
against
the
highest
Goodness
of
God
,
and
casts
Contempt
upon
it
;
for
never
did
God
manifest
such
sovereign
Goodness
unto
his
Creatures
as
in
Jesus
Christ
.
God
hath
said
,
there
is
no
Life
,
no
Salvation
any
other
way
,
but
by
the
Lord
Jesus
.
But
these
Men
do
not
assent
to
this
Truth
,
do
not
believe
the
Report
God
hath
given
concerning
the
want
of
perfect
Righteousness
and
Regeneration
,
and
Self-debasement
,
&c.
Nay
,
they
seem
to
contradict
the
Will
of
God
,
by
their
going
about
to
establish
their
own
Righteousness
,
and
so
not
submitting
to
the
Righteousness
of
God.
In
a
word
,
't
is
a
denying
of
Christ
,
and
a
disesteeming
the
Price
of
his
Blood
,
as
it
also
reflects
on
the
Wisdom
of
God
,
in
fixing
on
this
way
to
save
Sinners
:
'T
is
an
invaluating
the
Excellency
of
Christ's
Person
,
Blood
and
Merits
.
As
Faith
counts
all
things
Dung
in
Comparison
of
Christ
;
so
Unbelief
accounts
the
Person
,
Offices
,
and
Doctrine
of
Christ
,
but
as
Dung
in
Comparison
of
the
Excellency
of
Self-Righteousness
,
Self-Wisdom
,
Self-Sufficiency
,
&c.
These
Men
are
the
worst
Neglecters
of
the
great
Salvation
,
they
do
not
only
neglect
it
,
but
slight
and
contemn
it
,
there
being
in
their
Thoughts
not
any
need
to
look
for
Salvation
this
way
:
They
that
sin
against
the
Law
,
fly
to
the
Gospel
;
but
these
sin
against
the
Cure
held
forth
and
extended
in
the
Gospel
.
Whither
must
these
fly
?
since
there
remains
no
more
Sacrifice
for
Sin
:
if
this
be
slighted
,
no
other
way
or
means
is
ordained
for
Salvation
.
Such
who
refuse
the
Covenant
of
Grace
,
and
depend
on
the
Covenant
of
Works
,
how
woful
is
their
Condition
?
And
what
hope
a
Law
often
transgress'd
can
give
a
Malefactor
,
is
(
saith
a
worthy
Person
)
easy
to
imagine
:
Millions
have
perished
by
it
,
none
can
be
secured
by
it
,
as
none
ever
by
it
were
or
could
be
saved
.
At
first
these
Persons
transgressed
against
the
Rule
,
but
now
they
transgress
against
the
Rule
and
Remedy
too
.
None
but
Unbelievers
are
despised
by
God
,
none
but
these
shall
taste
of
his
Wrath
and
Divine
Vengeance
;
this
is
the
condemning
Sin
,
this
is
Satan's
strongest
hold
,
hither
he
retreats
after
all
,
and
here
he
keeps
as
in
chains
his
miserable
Captive
.
He
that
believes
not
,
shall
be
damned
.
And
what
is
Faith
but
a
going
out
of
a
Mans
self
to
Christ
for
Life
and
Righteousness
,
as
a
poor
wretched
and
miserable
Sinner
?
But
these
Men
now
see
not
themselves
to
be
in
such
a
State.
Earthly
Hypocrisy
,
it
appears
from
the
whole
which
hath
been
said
,
is
another
of
those
evil
Spirits
that
is
entered
into
this
Man.
Hypocrisy
is
opposed
to
that
inward
Simplicity
of
the
Heart
,
and
all
counterfeit
Professors
are
guilty
of
it
,
though
all
do
not
act
the
part
of
an
Hypocrite
with
an
Intention
,
i.
e.
are
not
convinced
,
they
are
Hypocrites
:
some
deceive
their
own
Hearts
,
they
are
the
grosser
▪
sort
;
others
their
Hearts
deceive
them
,
these
are
most
to
be
pitied
;
a
Man
may
doubtless
be
an
Hypocrite
,
and
he
may
not
know
it
,
he
may
go
on
in
a
way
of
Duty
,
and
do
all
things
,
as
he
thinks
,
exactly
according
to
the
Letter
of
the
Word
,
and
in
Uprightness
as
he
may
judg
,
and
yet
be
unsound
;
certainly
thus
it
was
with
the
foolish
Virgins
.
Hypocrites
may
be
nevertheless
discerned
;
our
Saviour
hath
given
the
Character
of
them
.
1.
They
are
commonly
most
zealous
from
the
lesser
things
of
Religion
,
i.
e.
for
paying
Tithes
of
Mint
,
Anise
,
and
Cummin
,
but
neglect
the
weightier
things
of
the
Law
,
Judgment
,
Mercy
,
Faith
,
and
the
Love
of
God
:
They
strain
at
a
Knat
,
and
swallow
a
Cammel
.
They
make
a
stir
about
external
Rights
,
Observation
of
Days
and
Meats
,
but
to
the
Power
of
Religion
and
Godliness
are
Strangers
,
and
experience
nothing
of
a
Divine
change
on
their
Souls
.
2.
As
they
lay
the
greatest
stress
upon
the
least
things
,
so
they
are
commonly
partial
in
their
pretended
Obedience
;
they
lay
hard
things
,
or
heavy
Burdens
upon
others
,
but
they
themselves
will
not
touch
them
with
one
of
their
Fingers
:
What
they
preach
and
press
on
others
,
they
do
not
themselves
,
they
will
not
obey
Christ
,
nor
follow
him
in
the
hardest
things
,
nor
do
they
obey
in
Love
,
or
always
.
3.
They
are
commonly
finding
Faults
in
other
Men
,
can
spy
the
Mote
in
their
Brother's
Eye
,
but
cannot
see
the
Beam
that
is
in
their
own
.
As
it
is
a
Sign
of
notorious
Hypocrisy
and
Impudence
,
to
censure
and
judg
others
for
those
Sins
which
Men
live
in
themselves
;
so
it
is
a
Sign
of
like
Hypocrisy
,
to
spy
Faults
in
others
,
and
reproach
them
for
those
Faults
,
and
yet
the
Person
is
guilty
of
worse
himself
.
What
they
preach
and
press
on
others
,
they
do
not
themselves
;
they
will
not
follow
Christ
in
the
most
hard
and
difficult
things
of
Religion
,
but
pick
and
chuse
;
will
do
some
things
that
they
like
of
,
and
not
only
neglect
others
,
but
quarrel
with
them
who
contend
for
it
,
and
faithfully
subject
to
Christ
in
it
.
And
as
they
are
not
universal
in
their
Obedience
,
so
they
do
not
obey
in
Love
,
nor
do
they
obey
always
as
sincere
Christians
do
,
as
David
intimateth
.
4.
They
are
generally
very
confident
touching
the
Goodness
of
their
own
Condition
,
not
questioning
their
Salvation
;
thus
were
the
Pharisees
,
they
judged
others
were
in
a
damnable
State
,
but
as
touching
themselves
,
did
not
doubt
but
they
were
the
only
People
;
and
blessed
God
they
were
not
as
other
Men
:
whereas
a
true
Christian
is
full
of
Fear
,
and
doubts
about
the
Truth
of
Grace
received
,
and
Goodness
of
his
Condition
.
5.
They
are
vain-glorious
,
do
what
they
do
to
be
seen
of
Men
;
like
the
Pharisees
,
They
love
the
Praise
of
Men
,
more
than
the
Praise
of
God
:
their
Hearts
are
kept
up
by
the
good
Opinion
others
have
of
them
;
they
,
like
their
Predecessors
,
love
greetings
in
the
Markets
,
and
uppermost
Rooms
in
Feasts
,
and
to
be
called
of
Men
Rabbi
:
they
also
are
subject
to
Envy
,
or
have
their
Hearts
rise
against
such
who
they
hear
out-do
them
;
and
would
be
looked
upon
as
the
chiefest
of
Men
,
in
Learning
,
Parts
and
Wisdom
.
6.
They
are
commonly
very
zealous
to
make
Men
Proselytes
to
their
own
Notions
of
Religion
,
though
may
be
false
and
corrupt
Notions
:
but
if
they
can
but
bring
a
Person
to
receive
their
Principles
and
external
Ordinances
,
then
they
glory
,
tho
hereby
he
is
made
twofold
(
perhaps
sevenfold
)
more
the
Child
of
Hell
than
before
;
the
poor
deceived
Wretch
thinking
this
change
of
Religion
is
a
true
Conversion
,
and
so
never
looks
out
for
any
other
,
but
speaking
Peace
to
his
own
Soul
,
judging
all
is
well
within
.
They
doubt
not
but
they
have
Religion
enough
when
it
doth
commend
them
to
Me●
,
and
are
taken
for
Saints
by
Saints
;
their
greatest
Labor
is
to
keep
up
their
Name
and
Credit
in
Religion
;
so
that
if
they
may
pass
unsuspected
amongst
their
Fellow-Creatures
,
or
have
the
Approbation
of
Men
,
and
that
if
none
can
charge
them
justly
with
any
immoral
Actions
,
they
rest
satisfied
;
whereas
the
greatest
Care
of
a
true
Child
of
God
is
so
to
walk
and
labour
,
that
he
may
be
accepted
of
God
,
and
have
his
Approbation
.
7.
Self
is
commonly
in
the
bottom
.
In
all
they
do
,
they
aim
not
at
the
Glory
of
God
,
but
have
a
carnal
Design
,
Self-Advantage
,
or
Self-Applause
,
&c.
This
moves
and
quickens
them
,
and
animates
them
in
all
they
perform
in
religious
Services
;
and
if
they
miss
of
their
end
,
be
it
what
it
will
,
they
soon
are
weary
,
and
grow
cold
and
flat
in
their
Spirits
,
and
become
quarrelsome
,
and
seek
Offences
,
and
disturb
the
Peace
of
the
Church
to
whom
they
belong
.
8.
Moreover
,
they
are
not
the
same
at
Home
,
which
they
are
Abroad
;
not
in
Private
,
what
they
seem
to
be
in
Publick
;
may
be
seldom
pray
,
either
in
their
Family
,
or
Closet
;
or
if
they
do
,
't
is
with
little
Zeal
,
Enlargedness
,
or
Affection
to
God.
There
are
divers
other
Marks
and
Characters
of
Hypocrites
,
and
of
these
false
Professors
,
which
I
must
pass
by
,
because
I
would
speak
a
word
or
two
of
Application
.
In
the
last
place
;
The
latter
State
of
these
Men
is
worse
than
the
first
.
1.
Because
God
oftentimes
leaves
them
to
judicial
Blindness
,
and
to
the
hardness
of
their
own
Hearts
:
According
as
it
is
written
,
God
hath
given
them
the
Spirit
of
Slumber
,
Eyes
that
they
should
not
see
,
and
Ears
that
they
should
not
hear
,
unto
this
day
.
Even
thus
,
as
God
dealt
with
the
Unbelieving
Jews
,
or
the
People
of
that
Generation
,
so
I
say
he
oftentimes
deals
with
other
formal
Hypocrites
,
&c.
and
for
the
very
same
Cause
.
Doubtless
it
was
for
those
Spiritual
Sins
,
Unbelief
and
Hypocrisy
,
the
Pharisees
,
and
other
People
of
Israel
were
rejected
and
cast
off
.
And
O
what
Wrath
were
they
laid
under
!
the
Wrath
of
God
(
is
said
)
to
come
upon
them
to
the
uttermost
.
Moreover
,
some
of
these
false
and
counterfeit
Professors
,
also
fall
into
the
very
same
Sins
and
horrid
Abominations
they
were
guilty
of
before
they
made
any
profession
of
Religion
;
nay
,
and
they
prove
more
vile
and
notorious
in
Wickedness
than
ever
:
It
hath
often
been
seen
,
that
this
sort
of
Men
who
forsake
the
Ways
of
God
,
which
they
seemed
to
own
and
profess
,
have
at
last
appeared
more
impudent
in
Sin
than
the
vilest
Men
,
being
ring-leaders
to
all
lewd
and
cursed
Practices
and
Deeds
of
Darkness
;
so
that
the
same
unclean
Spirit
returneth
into
some
of
them
in
the
same
shape
also
;
though
I
cannot
see
any
ground
to
believe
it
happens
so
to
them
all
;
for
doubtless
many
of
them
retain
their
seeming
Zeal
,
and
external
Profession
of
Religion
and
outward
Holiness
,
until
they
die
.
Evident
it
is
,
our
Saviour
applies
this
direful
Doom
on
the
People
of
that
Generation
,
viz.
the
Jews
,
particularly
to
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
see
the
38th
verse
.
Yet
certain
it
is
,
many
of
them
never
turned
to
open
Prophaneness
,
but
died
in
their
Unbelief
whilst
they
abode
proud
and
zealous
Pharisees
.
Yet
I
see
no
reason
to
question
but
this
returning
Devil
,
and
those
seven
other
Spirits
more
wicked
,
is
applied
to
them
as
well
as
to
others
,
who
fell
away
from
their
seeming
Piety
and
Profession
.
But
of
some
of
them
especially
it
hath
happened
according
to
what
St.
Peter
speaks
,
For
if
after
they
have
escaped
the
Pollutions
of
the
World
through
the
Knowledg
of
Jesus
Christ
,
and
are
again
overcome
,
the
latter
end
of
that
Man
is
worse
than
the
first
;
that
is
,
such
a
knowledg
of
Christ
as
brings
with
it
,
or
doth
produce
,
an
outward
reformation
of
Life
.
For
as
the
Elect
cannot
be
deceived
,
so
they
cannot
fall
finally
,
having
the
seed
remaining
in
them
,
cannot
sin
unto
Death
,
they
are
said
to
have
eternal
Life
abiding
in
them
;
Because
(
saith
Christ
)
I
live
,
ye
shall
live
also
.
He
that
hath
begun
that
good
work
in
them
,
will
perform
it
to
the
Day
of
Christ
.
They
are
passed
from
Death
unto
Life
,
and
shall
not
come
into
condemnation
.
But
as
to
these
false-hearted
or
hypocritical
Persons
,
it
happeneth
to
them
(
that
is
,
to
some
of
them
)
according
to
the
true
Proverb
,
The
Dog
is
turned
to
his
own
Vomit
,
and
the
Sow
that
was
washed
to
her
wallowing
in
the
Mire
.
The
Apostle
comparing
them
to
Dogs
and
Swine
,
shews
what
fort
they
were
,
viz.
such
who
never
passed
under
an
effectual
change
of
Heart
,
but
were
,
whilst
they
made
a
great
or
high
profession
,
like
unclean
Beasts
.
A
restraint
may
be
put
on
an
evil
Beast
,
or
on
a
filthy
and
unclean
Nature
;
where
there
is
not
a
change
of
nature
,
't
is
one
thing
to
have
the
Life
washed
or
cleansed
,
and
another
to
have
the
Heart
cleansed
.
Furthermore
;
Some
of
this
sort
who
have
received
those
high
,
though
common
Illuminations
of
the
Spirit
,
even
to
such
a
degree
as
they
are
said
to
be
inlightned
,
and
to
have
tasted
of
the
Heavenly
Gift
,
and
were
made
partakers
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
&c.
that
is
,
in
the
common
Gifts
and
Graces
thereof
;
and
yet
after
all
,
they
fall
away
,
nay
,
and
so
fall
,
that
they
can
never
be
renewed
again
by
Repentance
:
Therefore
some
of
these
Persons
are
they
who
sin
the
Sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
,
that
shall
never
be
forgiven
.
Prophane
Persons
doubtless
do
not
sin
this
Sin
,
nor
can
true
Christians
commit
it
;
they
cannot
sin
unto
Death
.
No
,
no
,
these
are
those
miserable
Souls
,
those
cursed
Apostates
,
who
are
liable
and
in
danger
to
sin
the
unpardonable
Sin.
Nay
,
and
observable
it
is
,
that
the
Lord
Jesus
in
the
verses
before
he
spake
this
Parable
,
intimates
,
that
those
very
Pharisees
,
&c.
were
guilty
of
,
or
in
danger
of
being
charged
with
this
Sin
,
see
vers
.
30.
they
shewed
so
much
Malice
against
our
blessed
Saviour
,
as
to
charge
him
with
a
Devil
,
and
that
he
cast
out
Devils
by
Beelzebub
.
But
when
the
Pharisees
heard
it
,
they
said
,
This
Fellow
doth
not
cast
out
Devils
but
by
Beelzebub
the
Prince
of
the
Devils
.
And
from
hence
he
said
,
All
manner
of
Sin
and
Blasphemy
shall
be
forgiven
to
Men
,
but
the
Sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
shall
not
be
forgiven
unto
Men.
And
therefore
he
bids
them
to
make
the
Tree
good
,
intimating
,
whilst
the
Heart
was
evil
,
and
under
diabolical
Influences
,
it
would
or
might
carry
them
away
to
all
horrid
Words
,
and
Blasphemy
.
And
then
presently
after
brings
in
this
parabolical
Speech
,
When
the
unclean
Spirit
is
gone
out
of
a
Man
,
&c.
'T
is
not
a
speaking
of
hard
words
against
Christ
and
the
Holy
Ghost
,
but
a
speaking
them
as
the
Pharisees
did
,
out
of
spite
,
designing
to
destroy
him
,
and
render
him
odious
:
This
is
dangerous
.
1.
'T
is
a
sinning
wilfully
after
a
Person
has
received
much
knowledg
;
it
is
a
Sin
knowingly
committed
against
the
operations
of
the
Holy
Spirit
,
casting
contempt
or
highest
reproach
upon
Christ
and
the
Holy
Ghost
,
contrary
to
the
rational
Convictions
of
their
own
Consciences
.
2.
There
is
also
it
appears
Malice
against
Christ
and
his
Spirit
in
the
Hearts
of
those
Men
who
are
guilty
of
it
;
they
are
said
to
do
despite
to
the
Spirit
of
Grace
;
they
desert
the
Assemblies
where
he
manifesteth
his
Gifts
and
Graces
,
they
reject
him
,
viz.
the
Holy
Spirit
,
with
them
,
and
treat
(
as
one
observes
)
his
Gifts
and
Motions
,
as
if
they
were
mere
Delusions
and
Impostures
of
an
evil
Spirit
:
and
this
is
done
wilfully
,
out
of
Malice
to
Christ
,
his
People
,
and
Religion
.
3.
Also
doubtless
Apostacy
is
another
ingredient
thereof
in
some
,
they
fall
away
,
&c.
they
utterly
disown
that
Religion
they
have
professed
.
4.
Final
Impenitency
appertaineth
to
it
likewise
;
for
what
Sins
we
truly
repent
of
,
we
shall
be
forgiven
.
But
of
these
't
is
said
,
'T
is
impossible
to
renew
them
again
to
Repentance
,
because
God
is
withdrawn
from
them
,
and
hath
left
them
for
ever
,
so
that
no
Means
used
can
do
them
any
good
.
As
God
will
not
renew
them
again
,
so
none
else
can
do
it
:
they
sin
therefore
without
remorse
of
Conscience
,
after
they
have
made
shipwrack
of
Faith
,
and
that
seeming
good
Conscience
they
once
had
;
for
Paul
intimated
he
had
a
good
Conscience
before
he
was
converted
,
or
whilst
a
Pharisee
,
Act.
23.
1.
But
those
who
are
unsound
at
Heart
,
who
do
not
fall
away
from
their
seeming
Holiliness
and
profession
of
Religion
,
and
so
die
not
in
Apostacy
,
yet
if
they
never
come
to
be
savingly
wrought
upon
,
or
to
pass
under
a
Divine
Change
,
they
all
nevertheless
perish
in
Hypocrisy
;
so
that
every
way
their
State
,
and
the
State
of
all
of
them
,
is
and
will
be
at
the
last
miserable
.
And
from
the
whole
we
may
note
,
That
the
State
of
the
Self-righteous
and
Pharisaical
Persons
,
is
far
worse
than
the
State
of
gross
and
prophane
Sinners
.
These
are
sick
,
and
know
it
not
;
wounded
,
but
see
no
need
of
a
Physician
;
Sinners
,
but
see
no
want
of
a
Christ
:
They
may
conclude
they
are
converted
,
and
therefore
seek
not
after
Conversion
.
We
always
think
his
State
is
sad
,
who
,
though
mortally
wounded
,
yet
feels
no
pain
.
Some
Sinners
are
said
to
be
past
feeling
;
their
Enemy
is
hid
in
them
,
they
think
he
is
gone
,
when
't
is
no
such
thing
,
for
he
another
way
has
faster
hold
of
them
than
ever
.
'T
is
a
hard
and
difficult
thing
to
bring
a
Pharisaical
Person
,
one
that
looks
upon
himself
to
be
a
religious
Man
,
to
see
his
woful
State
and
Condition
.
Men
may
be
civilized
,
and
make
a
great
Profession
of
Religion
,
and
go
for
Saints
on
Earth
,
that
are
not
such
in
the
sight
of
God
in
Heaven
.
We
may
also
from
hence
infer
,
'T
is
a
most
dangerous
thing
to
make
a
Profession
of
Religion
,
without
true
Regeneration
be
first
wrought
in
the
Soul
;
better
be
no
Professors
at
all
,
than
not
so
as
to
be
sincere
.
Hypocrisy
is
a
most
cursed
and
dangerous
Sin
;
these
Persons
Satan
hath
commonly
the
strongest
hold
of
,
of
all
others
.
The
State
of
sincere
Christians
is
happy
:
though
Satan
doth
attempt
to
get
into
them
,
and
destroy
them
,
yet
he
cannot
do
it
,
there
is
no
abiding
for
him
;
he
may
foil
them
,
but
cannot
give
them
a
final
fall
;
though
they
fall
,
they
shall
rise
again
.
Satan
cannot
be
said
to
be
quite
thrown
out
of
that
Man's
Heart
,
where
the
true
Grace
of
God
is
not
implanted
,
nor
the
Soul
renewed
.
None
but
the
Lord
Jesus
,
who
is
stronger
than
Satan
,
can
bind
this
strong
Man
armed
,
and
set
the
Soul
at
liberty
.
Where
the
Heart
is
not
changed
,
Satan
can
return
,
in
one
way
or
another
,
at
his
pleasure
,
he
takes
them
captive
at
his
Will.
Mortality
,
or
all
external
Gifts
and
common
Graces
,
though
it
may
seem
to
sweep
the
House
,
yet
is
the
House
empty
,
and
all
is
but
like
a
vain
Shew
or
Garnish
,
all
Reformation
is
nothing
without
Regeneration
APPLICATION
.
This
may
inform
us
of
the
Cause
and
Reason
there
is
so
great
Reproach
brought
upon
Religion
,
and
on
the
Ways
of
God
,
and
on
the
People
of
God
,
by
some
who
profess
the
Gospel
.
Alas
,
many
of
them
who
are
called
Saints
,
we
may
justly
fear
are
but
counterfeit
Christians
,
such
who
never
experienced
a
true
Work
of
Grace
;
they
may
have
knowing
Heads
,
but
unsanctified
Hearts
.
And
from
hence
it
is
there
are
so
many
proud
Persons
in
many
Congregations
,
who
with
brazen
Foreheads
will
brave
it
out
,
with
impudent
Faces
,
in
the
presence
of
Christ's
faithful
Ministers
;
and
though
reproved
,
and
told
of
their
cursed
Pride
and
abominable
Dresses
,
high
and
shameful
Towers
,
hateful
to
God
and
good
Men
,
yet
reform
not
,
will
not
deny
themselves
of
their
filthy
Lusts
,
tho
the
Name
of
God
and
Religion
is
exposed
to
great
Reproach
and
Contempt
thereby
,
and
the
Hearts
of
sincere
Christians
wounded
,
and
mourn
for
it
bitterly
before
the
Lord.
If
they
had
but
a
spark
of
true
Grace
,
could
they
ever
stand
it
out
thus
against
the
Gun-shot
of
Heaven
?
How
fearless
do
they
seem
under
the
ratling
Peals
of
the
Thunder
of
Heaven
?
They
regard
not
the
whetted
Sword
of
the
Almighty
,
nor
the
bending
of
his
dreadful
Bow
;
nor
mind
the
Arrows
that
are
just
upon
the
String
,
who
is
ready
to
send
forth
his
Anger
with
Fury
,
and
his
Rebukes
in
Flames
of
Fire
.
Moreover
,
from
hence
it
is
also
there
are
so
many
covetous
,
earthly
,
and
hard-hearted
Professors
and
Members
in
Churches
.
Alas
,
you
may
tell
them
of
this
abominable
Sin
a
thousand
times
over
,
and
all
to
no
purpose
,
their
Hearts
(
't
is
to
be
feared
)
are
set
upon
their
Covetousness
,
they
love
the
World
more
than
the
Word
,
nay
,
more
than
God
or
Jesus
Christ
;
and
yet
,
under
a
Cloak
of
Religion
,
shelter
themselves
as
if
all
was
well
,
and
they
good
Christians
:
And
because
they
covet
no
Man's
Goods
but
their
own
,
and
so
are
not
guilty
of
Theft
,
they
conclude
they
are
not
chargeable
with
this
Sin
of
Covetousness
;
though
Christ's
poor
Members
are
not
regarded
,
the
Naked
are
not
clothed
,
nor
the
Hungry
fed
,
nor
the
Sick
visited
.
They
will
give
something
't
is
true
,
but
not
according
to
the
Need
and
Necessity
of
the
Poor
,
nor
according
to
their
Ability
:
nor
is
it
out
of
Love
to
Christ
,
nor
to
his
poor
Saints
neither
,
they
give
what
they
do
give
,
may
be
to
free
themselves
from
Reproach
,
or
to
quiet
their
own
Consciences
.
And
hence
it
is
likewise
there
are
so
many
Whisperers
,
Tatlers
and
Backbiters
in
Congregations
,
and
so
consequently
so
much
trouble
and
disorder
in
our
Churches
.
Tho
Godly
Christians
may
be
guilty
of
great
Disorders
and
many
Infirmities
,
yet
I
am
perswaded
,
were
there
not
many
false
and
deceitful
,
carnal
and
hypocritical
Professors
,
it
would
never
be
as
it
is
.
What
makes
the
best
Design
that
ever
was
amongst
us
,
for
the
promoting
the
Interest
of
Christ
,
and
good
of
the
Churches
,
so
neglected
,
and
like
to
sink
in
the
Bud
,
but
the
great
discouragement
these
sort
of
People
lay
it
under
?
They
have
no
mind
to
such
a
good
and
great
Work
,
they
are
for
enriching
themselves
,
and
to
lay
into
their
own
Coffers
and
Treasuries
,
but
not
to
cast
into
Christ's
Treasury
.
And
this
evil
Example
of
theirs
,
lays
a
Temptation
on
sincere
and
upright
Men
and
Women
.
What
do
such
and
such
do
?
they
are
far
richer
than
I
,
and
they
will
do
nothing
.
To
these
let
me
speak
one
word
:
Why
,
will
you
do
no
more
for
God
,
because
some
who
love
him
not
will
do
nothing
?
Alas
,
you
had
need
do
the
more
:
I
am
perswaded
you
would
not
willingly
be
found
foolish
Virgins
in
the
Day
of
Christ
.
How
do
you
know
but
these
very
Men
shall
be
found
to
be
such
who
value
the
gratifying
of
a
base
Lust
,
above
the
discharging
a
holy
and
acceptable
Duty
to
Christ
?
who
give
more
to
deck
and
adorn
their
Houses
,
and
please
the
base
Lust
of
their
Children
,
than
they
will
give
to
promote
the
Gospel
,
and
recover
the
languishing
Interest
of
Jesus
Christ
that
is
in
our
hands
.
And
may
not
this
be
the
reason
our
Assemblies
are
so
thin
on
Lecture-days
?
is
it
not
because
the
Hearts
of
People
are
not
right
with
God
?
Can
godly
Christians
be
always
under
the
same
Temptation
?
Can
Sin
predominate
in
them
,
and
they
act
thus
habitually
to
the
scandal
of
their
sacred
Religion
?
Can
Sin
be
in
the
Affections
of
Saints
,
because
there
are
some
Infirmities
in
their
Conversations
?
Is
not
a
true
Child
of
God
quickly
convinced
of
his
Fault
?
and
doth
he
not
straitway
reform
?
But
this
is
a
constant
course
of
evil
,
and
wilfully
persisting
in
:
nay
,
and
ye
shall
incur
their
displeasure
perhaps
if
you
deal
plainly
with
them
.
Sure
Christ
is
at
the
Door
.
Now
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
may
certainly
be
compared
to
ten
Virgins
,
five
wise
,
and
as
many
foolish
:
read
the
latter
end
of
Mat.
24.
and
the
beginning
of
the
25th
Chapter
.
Multitudes
of
Foolish
Virgins
,
't
is
to
be
feared
,
are
now
got
into
the
Church
,
as
Christ
signifies
it
would
be
a
little
before
his
Coming
,
whose
latter
end
will
be
worse
than
the
first
.
This
also
reproves
those
who
foment
such
Notions
,
and
strive
to
distil
them
into
the
Minds
of
People
that
are
absurd
,
and
tend
to
blind
and
ruin
their
Souls
,
telling
them
they
are
in
the
Covenant
of
Grace
,
and
Church-Members
,
by
their
Parents
Faith
,
and
have
the
Seal
of
the
Covenant
;
yet
I
could
never
learn
what
it
doth
seal
or
make
firm
to
them
.
For
a
Seal
,
all
know
,
usually
makes
sure
all
that
is
contained
in
the
said
Covenant
.
Shall
they
miss
of
the
Blessings
of
the
Covenant
of
Grace
who
have
it
sealed
to
them
?
Alas
,
hereby
't
is
to
be
feared
,
many
think
they
are
in
a
good
Condition
,
though
never
united
by
saving
Faith
to
Jesus
Christ
.
Can
it
seal
,
and
not
seal
Covenant-Mercies
to
them
?
Or
can
they
perish
after
they
are
in
the
Covenant
,
and
have
the
Seal
of
it
?
Circumcision
was
a
Seal
,
't
is
true
,
of
that
Faith
Abraham
had
,
being
yet
uncircumcised
;
it
was
not
a
Seal
of
that
Faith
which
he
had
not
,
but
of
the
Faith
which
he
had
;
and
therefore
it
could
not
be
a
Seal
to
his
Male
Infants
of
the
Righteousness
of
their
Faith
which
they
had
,
being
yet
uncircumcised
,
because
they
had
no
such
Faith
before
Circumcision
,
as
to
believe
in
God
,
and
to
have
it
imputed
to
them
for
Righteousness
,
as
had
Abraham
their
Father
,
to
whom
Circumcision
was
only
called
a
Seal
of
the
Righteousness
of
the
Faith
which
he
had
yet
being
uncircumcised
,
that
he
might
be
the
Father
of
all
them
that
believe
.
It
was
a
Seal
to
him
of
the
latter
Blessing
as
well
as
the
former
;
for
the
Promise
that
he
should
be
the
Heir
of
the
World
,
the
Apostle
shews
was
not
through
the
Law
,
nor
in
or
through
Circumcision
,
nor
had
any
that
dignity
conferred
upon
them
but
Abraham
only
;
which
clearly
shews
Circumcision
did
not
appertain
to
the
Covenant
of
Faith.
Likewise
it
may
reprehend
another
sort
,
who
tell
the
People
,
they
were
made
the
Children
of
God
,
Members
of
Christ
,
and
Inheritors
of
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
,
in
their
Baptism
,
or
rather
Rantism
.
O
the
danger
of
this
pernicious
Doctrine
!
how
many
flatter
themselves
with
the
Hopes
of
Heaven
from
this
false
Foundation
,
thinking
they
sucked
in
the
true
Faith
,
and
true
Religion
,
with
their
Mother's
Milk
,
and
were
made
Christians
by
a
Priest's
scattering
a
little
Water
on
their
Faces
when
Babes
,
tho
they
live
in
all
manner
of
horrid
Sins
,
and
are
Enemies
to
the
Life
and
Power
of
Godliness
?
This
is
a
way
of
making
Christians
which
Christ
and
his
Apostles
never
taught
;
and
it
is
a
healing
of
the
Hurt
of
the
People
slightly
,
taking
them
off
from
seeking
after
Grace
and
true
Regeneration
;
for
if
they
were
made
true
Christians
then
,
regenerated
then
,
doubtless
their
State
is
good
;
and
so
't
is
to
be
feared
,
thousands
of
them
conclude
,
and
never
doubt
of
their
Salvation
.
Moreover
,
it
reproves
all
who
rest
on
Morality
;
who
,
because
they
live
a
sober
Life
,
and
pay
every
Man
his
own
,
doing
justly
,
&c.
conclude
all
is
well
,
yet
look
after
no
other
Religion
.
And
it
also
as
much
reprehends
those
who
boast
of
their
Knowledg
and
spiritual
Attainments
,
they
conclude
their
State
is
good
,
because
they
are
Members
of
a
true
Church
,
and
have
been
Baptized
indeed
,
and
break
Bread
,
Read
and
Pray
in
their
Families
,
and
discharge
all
other
External
Duties
of
Religion
,
but
rest
wholly
upon
these
things
,
and
never
were
brought
to
be
poor
in
Spirit
,
nor
obtain
real
Union
with
Christ
,
but
are
ignorant
of
the
Faith
,
of
the
Operation
of
God.
What
means
the
Pride
of
some
?
their
Earthliness
,
Contention
,
Whispering
,
Backbiting
,
want
of
Love
,
Divisions
,
&c.
shutting
their
Eyes
at
further
Light
,
and
discovery
of
Truth
?
O
look
about
you
for
the
Lord's
sake
,
lest
after
all
your
high
Profession
and
Hopes
of
Heaven
,
you
do
not
at
last
drop
down
to
Hell.
Lastly
;
It
reproves
all
such
nice
and
scrupulous
Persons
,
who
seem
to
make
it
their
chief
Business
to
render
all
odious
who
are
not
of
their
own
fantastical
Humor
;
Women
must
not
wear
a
bit
of
Lace
,
&c.
nor
a
gold
Ring
,
nor
Men
wear
a
Periwig
,
though
never
so
short
and
modest
,
(
and
advised
to
do
it
by
able
Physicians
,
for
their
Health-sake
)
because
the
Apostle
saith
,
'T
is
a
shame
for
a
Man
to
wear
long
Hair
;
therefore
they
run
into
Extreams
,
and
cut
their
Hair
close
to
their
Ears
,
and
so
disguise
themselves
,
and
censure
others
as
guilty
of
great
Abomination
,
(
who
will
not
imitate
them
)
as
if
the
main
Points
of
Religion
lay
in
these
foolish
Formalities
and
Niceties
,
and
as
if
none
were
to
be
taken
for
Godly
Christians
,
but
such
who
are
just
of
their
Height
,
and
Length
,
and
Breadth
,
and
conform
to
them
in
these
smaller
things
(
that
may
be
lawful
notwithstanding
what
such
say
)
;
and
render
those
odious
,
who
are
better
than
themselves
,
even
as
such
,
who
hate
Instruction
,
and
cast
God's
Word
behind
them
,
&c.
These
Men
seem
to
bear
the
exact
Image
of
the
Pharisees
of
old
;
and
though
they
thus
strain
at
a
Knat
,
yet
at
the
same
time
seem
to
swallow
a
Camel.
For
one
of
this
sort
will
be
found
,
it
is
to
be
feared
,
guilty
of
horrid
Lies
and
Slanders
,
back-biting
and
reproaching
his
Neighbours
,
seeming
to
be
silled
with
Malice
and
Envy
,
rendering
a
great
body
or
multitude
of
godly
Christians
,
as
a
vile
and
wicked
People
,
without
Exeption
,
because
they
deny
Babes
Baptism
,
as
if
they
were
Deceivers
and
cursed
Impostors
,
yet
a
People
sound
in
all
the
Essentials
of
true
Religion
,
and
of
holy
and
gracious
Lives
,
our
Enemies
themselves
being
Judges
,
and
only
differ
from
our
Brethren
in
that
one
thing
which
no
wise
nor
worthy
Men
make
absolutely
necessary
to
Salvation
.
And
't
is
not
unknown
how
many
learned
Persons
,
who
in
the
Point
of
Baptism
differ
from
us
,
have
acknowledged
that
we
have
the
Word
of
God
plain
for
us
in
that
matter
:
Moreover
,
have
confessed
,
Infants
Baptism
is
doubtful
,
and
therefore
called
for
Moderation
and
Charity
.
But
little
of
this
appears
in
some
censorious
Zealots
;
though
God
(
but
a
few
Years
ago
)
made
a
dreadful
Example
of
one
Man
for
his
evil
,
envious
,
and
reproachful
Pen
,
near
this
City
,
enough
to
make
all
to
tremble
:
And
it
ought
never
to
be
forgotten
,
how
he
abused
the
People
falsely
called
Anabaptists
,
in
a
small
Pamphlet
,
is
not
unknown
to
many
;
and
what
Terror
of
Conscience
he
soon
after
fell
under
,
and
in
Despair
hanged
himself
in
Bricklane
,
under
the
sense
and
Aprehension
of
God's
fearful
Wrath
and
Displeasure
;
crying
out
against
himself
,
for
writing
that
cursed
Book
,
to
the
last
;
declaring
that
his
State
was
worse
than
Cain's
,
Judah's
,
or
Spirah's
;
and
that
he
had
touched
the
Apple
of
God's
Eye
,
&c.
This
may
also
reprove
the
Churches
of
Christ
,
and
the
Pastors
of
them
,
more
particularly
,
for
their
Carelessness
and
Negligence
in
receiving
in
Persons
:
tho
I
know
none
to
charge
,
yet
I
am
afraid
we
have
generally
failed
herein
.
O
that
greater
care
may
be
taken
for
the
time
to
come
;
't
is
not
a
great
Church
,
but
a
holy
and
good
Church
Christ
loves
.
I
am
perswaded
it
would
be
better
with
the
Churches
,
if
many
were
severed
from
them
.
But
O
how
seldom
have
any
been
dealt
with
,
either
for
Pride
or
Covetousness
▪
as
if
we
were
not
able
to
find
out
such
Offender
as
well
as
others
.
Moreover
,
it
sharply
reproves
those
Preachers
whose
great
Business
't
is
to
bring
Men
into
visible
Profession
,
and
make
them
Members
of
Churches
,
whose
Preaching
tends
more
to
bring
Persons
to
Baptism
,
and
to
subject
to
external
Ordiances
,
than
to
shew
them
the
necessity
of
Regeneration
,
Faith
,
or
a
changed
Heart
.
For
the
Lord's
sake
take
heed
what
you
do
,
if
you
would
be
pure
from
the
Blood
of
all
Men.
We
too
often
see
when
People
are
got
into
Churches
,
they
conclude
all
is
well
;
and
when
Conversion
is
preached
,
they
do
not
think
it
concerns
them
,
but
others
who
are
openly
prophane
:
and
thus
they
come
to
be
blinded
,
may
be
to
their
own
Destruction
;
and
if
their
Blood
do
not
lie
at
some
of
your
Doors
,
it
will
be
well
.
I
am
afraid
some
now
adays
like
the
Pharisees
,
may
be
said
to
compass
Sea
and
Land
to
make
Proselytes
,
but
when
made
,
are
twofold
more
the
Children
of
Hell
than
before
,
as
our
Saviour
intimates
.
It
may
also
put
us
all
upon
a
strict
Examination
of
our
own
Hearts
,
lest
we
should
be
found
some
of
these
false
and
counterfeit
Christians
.
And
that
we
may
clear
our selves
in
this
matter
;
Consider
,
1.
Were
you
ever
throughly
convinced
of
your
sinful
and
lost
Condition
by
Nature
,
and
of
that
horrid
Evil
there
is
in
Sin
?
Did
you
ever
see
Sin
as
the
greatest
Evil
,
most
hateful
to
God
,
not
only
of
the
evil
Effects
of
Sin
,
but
also
of
the
evil
Nature
of
Sin
,
not
only
as
it
has
made
a
Breach
between
God
and
Man
,
but
has
also
defaced
the
Image
of
God
in
Man
,
and
made
us
like
the
Devil
,
filling
our
Minds
with
Enmity
against
God
,
Godliness
,
and
good
Men.
2.
Is
there
no
secret
Sin
lived
in
and
favoured
,
the
evil
Habit
never
being
broke
?
Is
not
the
World
more
in
your
Affections
,
Desires
,
and
Thoughts
,
than
Jesus
Christ
?
3.
Are
you
willing
to
suffer
and
part
with
all
that
you
have
,
rather
than
sin
against
God
?
Do
you
see
more
evil
in
the
least
Sin
,
than
in
the
greatest
Suffering
?
4.
Do
you
as
much
desire
to
have
your
Sins
mortified
as
pardoned
,
to
be
made
holy
as
well
as
to
be
made
happy
?
Do
you
love
the
Work
of
Holiness
as
well
as
the
Reward
of
Holiness
?
Do
you
love
the
Word
of
God
for
that
Purity
which
is
in
it
,
as
well
as
the
Advantage
that
comes
by
it
?
5.
Have
you
seen
〈◊〉
your
own
Righteousness
as
filthy
Rags
,
and
have
you
been
made
poor
in
Spirit
?
6.
Have
you
received
a
whole
Christ
with
a
whole
Heart
?
A
whole
Christ
comprehends
all
his
Offices
,
and
a
whole
Heart
includes
all
our
Faculties
:
Is
not
your
Heart
divided
?
7.
Is
Christ
precious
to
you
,
even
the
chiefest
amongst
ten
thousand
?
Are
you
the
same
in
private
as
in
publick
?
Do
you
love
Christ
above
Son
or
Daughter
?
Do
you
love
the
Person
of
Christ
?
8.
Can
you
bear
Reproof
kindly
for
your
Faults
,
and
look
upon
him
your
best
Friend
,
that
deals
most
plainly
with
you
.
9.
Do
you
more
pry
into
your
own
Faults
,
than
into
the
Miscarriages
of
others
?
Are
you
universal
in
your
Obedience
?
And
do
you
obey
Christ's
Word
,
his
Commands
,
because
you
love
him
?
10.
Have
you
been
the
same
in
a
day
of
Adversity
,
as
now
you
are
in
a
day
of
Prosperity
.
11.
Can
you
say
you
hate
Sin
as
Sin
?
Is
your
Mind
spiritual
,
and
set
upon
Heavenly
things
?
Do
you
love
the
Saints
,
all
the
Saints
,
though
some
of
them
are
not
of
your
Sentiments
in
some
Points
of
Religion
?
12.
Can
you
go
comfortably
on
in
the
ways
of
Christ
,
though
you
meet
with
little
esteem
amongst
the
Saints
?
Can
you
stay
your
Souls
upon
God
,
though
in
Darkness
,
having
no
Light
?
Is
all
the
stress
of
your
Justification
and
Salvation
built
upon
Jesus
Christ
?
Consider
of
these
few
Questions
,
and
do
not
doubt
but
that
your
Hearts
are
sincere
,
when
you
can
give
a
comfortable
Answer
to
them
,
though
it
be
with
some
fear
and
doubts
that
still
may
arise
in
you
.
A
true
Christian
is
ready
to
mistake
his
Portion
,
and
take
that
to
be
his
,
that
belongs
to
an
Hypocrite
;
as
an
Hypocrite
on
the
other
hand
,
mistakes
that
which
belongs
to
him
,
and
applies
that
to
himself
,
which
is
the
Portion
of
sincere
Christians
:
but
Grace
is
like
a
small
Seed
at
first
,
that
cannot
be
soon
espied
in
the
House
,
i.e.
the
Heart
,
especially
when
there
is
much
Smoak
and
Darkness
yet
remaining
.
But
may
be
some
may
say
,
What
you
have
said
,
tends
to
take
us
off
of
Holy
Duties
and
Obedience
.
God
forbid
:
for
though
we
would
not
have
you
rest
or
depend
upon
your
Duties
and
Obedience
;
yet
let
me
tell
you
,
a
godly
Man
,
or
he
that
is
a
true
Christian
,
hath
such
Righteousness
wrought
in
him
,
and
by
him
,
that
exceeds
the
Righteousness
of
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
;
if
he
had
not
,
he
could
in
no
wise
enter
into
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
.
1.
His
Obedience
and
Righteousness
flows
from
a
Principle
of
Divine
or
Spiritual
Life
,
or
from
a
Principle
of
saving
Grace
,
or
else
they
would
be
all
but
dead
Works
;
and
from
thence
he
acts
and
doth
all
that
he
performs
Godward
.
2.
He
acts
from
a
Principle
of
Faith
,
his
Obedience
flows
from
thence
,
seeing
himself
justified
and
accepted
only
in
Jesus
Christ
.
3.
He
acts
from
a
Principle
of
Love
to
Christ
,
and
is
also
always
the
same
,
and
for
the
hardest
part
of
Religion
,
as
well
as
for
the
easiest
part
of
it
.
Moreover
,
he
is
as
careful
to
●eep
a
good
Conscience
towards
God
,
as
to
keep
a
Conscience
void
of
Offence
,
towards
Men
;
he
takes
up
all
the
Duties
of
Religion
in
Point
of
Performance
,
though
he
lays
them
all
down
in
Point
of
Dependance
.
He
is
as
careful
of
his
Heart
and
Ways
,
that
he
●●y
please
God
,
and
glorify
him
as
much
,
as
a
Man
can
be
that
expects
to
merit
God's
Favour
thereby
;
he
knows
he
must
attend
upon
the
means
of
Salvation
,
as
well
as
to
expect
Salvation
it self
.
4.
He
exceeds
all
others
in
his
end
,
which
is
the
Honour
and
Glory
of
God
,
or
to
live
to
God
on
Earth
,
as
well
as
to
live
with
God
in
Heaven
.
Lastly
;
How
severely
doth
what
we
have
said
look
upon
all
Self-righteous
Persons
;
and
those
proud
People
that
boast
of
their
Holiness
and
Perfection
,
that
think
they
need
no
Repentance
,
O
that
they
would
consider
it
,
and
tremble
before
it
is
too
late
,
and
they
perish
eternally
,
for
rejecting
the
chief
Corner-stone
.
Remember
,
unless
ye
believe
that
Christ
is
he
,
ye
shall
die
in
your
Sins
.
Also
it
looks
severely
on
all
formal
and
carnal
Christians
who
have
nothing
but
a
Name
.
Alas
Sirs
!
If
the
painted
Hypocrite
,
he
that
is
so
gloriously
garnished
with
many
great
Gifts
,
Parts
,
Wisdom
,
Learning
,
and
seeming
Piety
,
is
in
a
damnable
Condition
,
what
will
become
of
you
?
Mourn
O
England
▪
what
a
Number
of
filthy
,
debauched
,
treacherous
,
proud
,
drunken
,
swearing
and
unclean
Christians
(
as
they
are
called
)
hast
thou
in
the
Bowels
of
thee
?
they
shew
their
Sin
as
Sodom
,
and
hide
it
not
,
and
yet
glory
as
if
they
were
the
only
People
of
God.
Awake
Sinners
,
before
God's
Judgments
are
poured
out
upon
you
,
for
certainly
great
Wrath
is
at
the
Door
.
God
hath
wrought
Wonders
for
the
Deliverance
of
this
Nation
,
but
ye
slight
and
contemn
them
:
Neither
Judgments
nor
Mercy
will
humble
you
;
what
would
you
have
,
since
nothing
God
doth
,
pleases
you
?
Certainly
the
Almighty
will
not
bear
with
you
much
longer
,
if
you
repent
not
.
But
ye
who
are
truly
pious
and
sincere
ones
,
rejoice
,
you
who
mourn
for
your
own
Sins
,
and
for
the
Sins
of
the
Land
;
you
are
secured
from
the
hungry
Lion
,
your
Day
is
coming
,
the
Kingdom
of
Jesus
Christ
is
near
,
your
Redemption
is
at
hand
;
lift
up
your
Heads
,
and
praise
God
for
ever
.
SAtan
a
Spirit
is
unclean
,
From
whom
all
Filth
doth
flow
;
A
wicked
Heart
his
House
has
been
,
There
still
he
dwells
also
.
As
all
true
Holiness
O
Lord
,
Is
from
they
self
alone
;
So
we
do
find
from
thy
bless'd
Word
,
Sin
's
from
that
wicked
one
:
And
that
he
in
a
filthy
Heart
Takes
up
his
curs'd
Abode
;
So
thou
so
good
to
thy
Saints
art
,
In
them
to
dwell
,
O
God
:
And
that
thou
mightst
Possession
have
,
Satan
thou
hast
cast
out
:
And
from
all
Filth
our
Souls
to
save
,
Strange
things
hast
wrought
about
.
Let
such
who
garnish'd
are
by
Art
,
And
common
Graces
,
fear
,
Whilst
all
those
sing
with
joyful
Heart
Who
are
indeed
sincere
.
Let
Sinners
and
each
Hypocrite
,
Consider
their
sad
doom
;
Whilst
Saints
do
sing
,
having
in
sight
The
Glory
that
's
to
come
.
The
latter
State
of
some
Men
will
,
Be
worser
than
before
;
But
Saints
are
happy
and
safe
still
,
And
shall
for
ever-more
.
FINIS
.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A47454-e260
The
whole
will
contain
100
or
120
Sheets
in
Folio
.
Notes for div A47454-e620
Preached
August
10.
1690.
Matth.
12.
45.
*
Mark
5.
8.
*
Luke
22.
3.
†
Acts
5.
3.
‖
Ephes
.
2.
2
,
3.
Luke
18.
11.
*
Job
.
1.
7.
*
1
John
2.
14.
†
1
John
5.
18.
2
Pet.
2.
Mat.
23.
27
,
29.
Doct.
I.
1
John
3.
8
,
12.
*
John
8.
Doct.
II.
Rom.
8.
7.
Doct.
III.
Doct.
IV.
This
Hymn
was
sung
at
the
close
of
the
first
Sermon
.
Notes for div A47454-e2570
Morning-Exercise
on
Horsely-Down
,
August
17
▪
1690.
Mat.
12.
45
Rev.
3.
17.
Joh.
9.
41.
1
Tim.
4.
2.
2
Cor.
10.
12.
Mat.
18.
11.
Rom.
10.
3.
Ròm
.
7.
9.
Rom.
2.
17
,
18.
Rom.
2.
22.
Charnock
.
Mat.
11.
25.
1
Cor.
1.
Joh.
7.
48.
Charnock
.
Prov.
14.
16.
Mat.
21.
32
,
33.
Rom.
2.
17
,
18
,
19.
Prov.
26.
16.
1
Cor.
1.
ult
.
1
Cor.
1.
30.
Phil.
3.
8
,
9.
Rom.
7.
9.
Rom.
7.
Rom.
3.
10.
Isa.
65.
5.
Mat.
9.
20.
Ephes.
2.
1
,
2.
Ephes.
1.
18
,
19
,
20.
2
Cor.
5.
17.
1
John
3.
8.
Rom.
8.
7.
1
Pet.
1.
17
,
18.
Mat.
13.
Quest
.
Answ
.
Jer.
4.
3.
Isa.
1.
Rom.
2.
19
,
20.
Annotators
.
John
4.
2
Tim.
3.
5.
Isa.
66.
3.
Counterfeit
Christians
are
not
all
of
one
sort
.
Rom.
3.
19
Joh.
8.
24.
Rom.
3.
24
,
25.
Object
.
Answ
.
1
Cor.
3.
11.
Mar.
16.
16
Act.
15.
24
Rom.
10.
3.
Rom.
11.
8.
Rom.
11.
6.
Annotat.
Object
.
Answ
.
Annotat.
Rom.
4.
5.
Annotators
.
Phil.
1.
29.
Joh.
6.
65.
Joh.
6.
44.
Ps.
110.
5.
Rom.
8.
7.
Object
.
Answ
.
Jer.
31.
33.
Jer.
32.
40.
Jer.
31.
3.
Rom.
8.
29.
Joh.
6.
37.
Eph.
1.
4.
Act.
27.
24
,
25
,
31.
Annotators
on
the
place
.
Charnock
.
Acts
4.
12.
Rom.
10.
3.
Phil.
3.
8
,
9
,
10.
Mark
16.
16.
Mat.
25.
Mat.
23.
23
,
24.
Luke
11.
42.
Mat.
23.
4.
Mat.
7.
3.
John
12.
43.
Mat.
23.
6
,
7.
Mat.
23.
15.
Rom.
11.
8.
2
Pet.
2.
20.
1
Joh.
3.
15.
Joh.
14.
19
Phil.
1.
6.
2
Pet.
2.
22.
Heb.
6.4
.
Mat.
12.
24
,
28.
Vers.
31.
What
the
Sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
is
,
that
shall
not
be
forgiven
.
Annotators
.
Heb.
10.
29
Heb.
6.
6.
Obs.
1.
Obs.
2.
Obs.
3.
Obs.
4.
Obs.
5.
Obs.
6.
Obs.
7.
Obs.
8.
Informat
.
1.
Informat
.
2.
Mat.
25.
Reproof
1.
Rom.
4.
11
,
12.
Vers●
13.
Reproof
2.
Reproof
3.
Reproof
4.
Doth
God
allow
of
nothing
for
Ornament
?
We
say
all
immodest
and
fantastical
Garbs
and
Dresses
are
loathsom
and
to
be
abominated
.
See
Wall
's
Baptism
anatomized
.
Though
this
Man
has
abused
me
,
and
my
Brethren
,
yet
I
do
not
think
such
a
scurrillous
Adversary
worthy
of
an
Answer
.
See
the
Narrative
of
John
Child's
Life
and
Death
three
or
four
years
ago
printed
.
Reproof
.
5.
Reproof
.
6.
Examinat
.
Sincerity
described
.
Rom.
8.
7.
1
Pet.
2.
7.
Object
.
Answ
.
Mat.
5.
20.
Quakers
condemned
.
Acts
4.
11.
John
8.
24.
Comfort
.
Sung
at
the
Close
of
the
second
Sermon
.