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but when the Gospel comes and when a man checks thee for drinking and swearing, and tells thee that these things stand not with the kingdom of God, the kingdom of Christ consists in righteousness and joy, and peace in the holy Ghost, and thou must deny thy self before thou canst receive the Lord Jesus; if a man shall tell thee that thou must be pure as Christ himself is pure, & that the Lord Christ Jesus did not come into the world to make men loose and careless, but holy and righteous, to live soberly in this present world, and deny all ungodly and worldly lusts, to renounce and abhor these, when thou hearest that thou must become a fool that thou mayst […] made wise, and that the Lord came to refresh those only that where laden with the burden of […] firms, when thou hearest these things, how […] thou take them, most men may give this answer we think not so, we believe it not, nay we cannot be persuaded of it; is it thus with thee why then the case is ended, the trial is do•• whoever doth not nay cannot receive the thing• of God; the Gospel of God, and the things revealed therein; why the Text saith, and the Lord saith, that man is a natural man. Now many soul can say, I am not persuaded of these things which the Gospel reveals; why then the cases ⟨p. 213⟩clear, thou sayest plainly thou canst not receive the things of God, why then the Lord saith, the Text saith, and God of heaven saith, that thou art a natural man as thou camest into the world, and that thou hast not the grace and spirit of Christ. But then some may say if I be a natural man what then, what hurt is it? And therefore in the fourth place it is an use of terror; I presume many that have heard this will say we are so, and shall a man be ashamed because he is a natural man? Therefore observe from the former doctrine a word of terror to all natural creatures under heaven, I am almost afraid to speak of the misery of a natural man, my tongue trembles to discover the wretched, fearful, damned, miserable estate that every natural man is in, you think it is nothing to be in a natural estate; but I tell you, did you but know what the Lord hath revealed concerning a natural man, it were enough to break the back of a man; a natural man, why it is enough to make thee go sighing to thy grave, though thou livest a thousand years;

but when the Gospell comes and when a man checkes thee for drinking and swearing, and tells thee that these things stand not with the kingdome of God, the kingdome of Christ consists in righteousnesse and joy, and peace in the holy Ghost, and thou must deny thy selfe before thou canst receive the Lord Iesus; if a man shall tell thee that thou must be pure as Christ himselfe is pure, & that the Lord Christ Iesus did not come into the world to make men loose and carelesse, but holy and righteous, to live soberly in this present world, and deny all ungodly and worldly lusts, to renounce and abhorre these, when thou hearest that thou must become a foole that thou mayst made wise, and that the Lord came to refesh those onely that where laden with the burthen of firmes, when thou hearest these things, how thou take them, most men may give this answer wee thinke not so, wee beleeve it not, nay we cannot be perswaded of it; is it thus with thee why then the case is ended, the tryall is do whoever doth not nay cannot receive the thing of God; the Gospell of God, and the things revealed therein; why the Text saith, and the Lord saith, that man is a naturall man. Now many soule can say, I am not perswaded of these things which the Gospell reveales; why then the cases