Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

Secondly, ignorance of the true meaning of the Law, and resting upon false grounds doth naturally beget these two things. First, blind zeal, much active and in appearance unblameable devotion. As it did here, and elsewhere in Saint Paul, Phil. 3. 6. Act. 22. 3. in the honourable women, Act. 13. 50. in the Pharisees, Matth. 23. 15. in false brethren, Col. 2. 23. in the Jews, that submitted not themselves to the righteousness of God. Rom. 10. 2. 3. In the papists in their contentions for trash, rigorous observation of their own traditions, out-sides, and superinducements upon the precious foundation. Secondly, strong mis-persuasions and self-justifications, dependant upon our works, and rigid endeavours for salvation at the last, Hos. 12. 8. Isaiah. 48. 1. 2. 58. 2. 7. Amos 5. 18. 21. 25. Mic. 3. 11. 12. Zech. 7. 3. 4. 5. 6. Hos. 8. 2. 3. Luk. 18. 11. 12. unregenerate men are often secure men, making¹ principles and premises of their own to build the conclusions of their Salvation upon. But beware of it. It is a desperate hazard to put eternity upon an adventure, to trust in God upon other terms then himself hath proposed to be trusted in, to lay claim to mercy without any writings, or seals, or witnesses, or patents, or acquittance from sin, to have the evidences of hell, and yet the presumptions of heaven, to be weary of one sabbath here, and yet presume upon the expectation of an eternity which shall be nothing else but sabbath. In