Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…

Uses: 1. Howsoever then, thou mayst seem to stand on Gods side, by an artificial acting of some affected forms in Religion, by countenancing the Ministry, if thou beest a great Man, and outwardly conforming to the Ordinances; yet, if in thy practise thou beest plunged into the corruptions of the present, and thine heart hanker still, and hunt in secret ⟨p. 29⟩after youthful delights, the lusts of men, most applauded fashions of the greater part, thou art not a Christian in truth, but a true counterfeit. Assure thy self, if thou swim down the current, and sail with the tide of the time, thou mayest justly look every moment, to fall upon the sudden, perhaps¹ in the height of thy temporal happiness, and hottest gleam of thy worldly glory, into the irrecoverable and everlasting Lake of brimstone and fire, &c.

Vses: 1. Howsoeuer then, thou mayst seeme to stand on Gods side, by an artificiall acting of some affected formes in Religion, by countenancing the Ministerie, if thou beest a great Man, and outwardly conforming to the Ordinances; yet, if in thy practise thou beest plunged into the corruptions of the present, and thine heart hanker still, and hunt in secret ⟨p. 29⟩after youthfull delights, the lusts of men, most applauded fashions of the greater part, thou art not a Christian in truth, but a true counterfeite. Assure thy selfe, if thou swim downe the current, and saile with the tide of the time, thou mayest iustly looke euery moment, to fall vpon the sudden, perhaps¹ in the height of thy temporall happinesse, and hottest gleame of thy worldly glory, into the irrecouerable and euerlasting Lake of brimstone and fire, &c.

1. 1Psal, 11. 6.