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5 The Ark was pitched within and without, the better to keep out the water. So must every Christian be joined into the Body, with Profession and Sincerity: sound-habited without, sound-hearted within. Nor profession, nor sincerity, are sufficient asunder; both do well together. Jericho was pleasant of situation, but the^o Springs were naught: many mens profession is fair, but the fountain, the heart is infected. Laish was a barren turf, but the heart of the ground was good, had it been tilled: so some have a little religion hid in their consciences, but for want of husbanding their graces, it perisheth. But God cannot abide a wanton Christian: A wanton Jew, Turk, Pagan, is bad enough; but none so intolerable as a wanton Christian, As in many things we sin all; so in some things we may obey all: b•• one line makes no Geometry, nor doth one act put Christianity. Neither the timber rotten at the heart, how fair soever to the eye, nor the timber crooked and ill-favoured to the eye, how sound soever at the heart; shall be put into Christs Ark. To be good, and not to appear: to appear good, and not to be; is not the way to glorify God, or for him to glorify us.

5 The Arke was pitched within and without, the better to keepe out the water. So must every Christian be joyned into the Body, with Profession and Sinceritie: sound-habited without, sound-hearted within. Nor profession, nor sincerity, are sufficient asunder; both doe well together. Iericho was pleasant of situation, but the^o Springs were naught: many mens profession is faire, but the fountaine, the heart is infected. Laish was a barren turfe, but the heart of the ground was good, had it beene tilled: so some have a little religion hid in their consciences, but for want of husbanding their graces, it perisheth. But God cannot abide a wanton Christian: A wanton Iew, Turke, Pagan, is bad enough; but none so intolerable as a wanton Christian, As in many things we sinne all; so in some things we may obey all: b•• one line makes no Geometry, nor doth one act put Christianity. Neither the timber rotten at the heart, how faire soever to the eye, nor the timber crooked and ill-favoured to the eye, how sound soever at the heart; shall be put into Christs Arke. To be good, and not to appeare: to appeare good, and not to be; is not the way to glorify God, or for him to glorify us.