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…

4. Experience, and examples of all ages, from the creation downward clearly prove the point. At this time, as you see, the Saints of God were all harboured under one roof, and yet not all sound there. Survey the ages afterward: The time of Abraham; who was as a brand taken out of the fire of the Chaldeans: The time of Elijah, when none appeared to that blessed man of God: The time of Isaiah, who cried, chap. 53. 1. Who hath believed our report? The time of Manasseh, who built altars for all the host of Heaven, in the two Courts of the House of the Lord: The time of Antiochus, when he commanded the Sanctuary, and holy people to be polluted with Swines-flesh, and unclean beasts to be sacrificed, the abomination of desolation to be set up upon ⟨p. 4⟩the Altar: That darksome time, when the glorious Day-Star, Christ Jesus himself, came down from Heaven to enlighten the earth: The time of Antichrist, when all the world wondered after the Beast: Our times, wherein, of six parts of the earth, scarce one of the least is Christian. And what a deal of Christendom is still over-grown with Popery, and other exorbitant distempers in point of Religion? And where the Truth of Christ is purely, and powerfully taught, how few give their names unto it? And of those who profess, how many are false-hearted or merely formal?

4. Experience, and examples of all ages, from the creation downeward clearely prooue the point. At this time, as you see, the Saints of God were all harboured vnder one roofe, and yet not all sound there. Suruey the ages afterward: The time of Abraham; who was as a brand taken out of the fire of the Chaldeans: The time of Elijah, when none appeared to that blessed man of God: The time of Esaiah, who cryed, chap. 53. 1. Who hath beleeued our report? The time of Manasseh, who built altars for all the host of Heauen, in the two Courts of the House of the Lord: The time of Antiochus, when he commanded the Sanctuarie, and holy people to bee polluted with Swines-flesh, and vncleane beasts to be sacrificed, the abomination of desolation to bee set vp vpon ⟨p. 4⟩the Altar: That darksome time, when the glorious Day-Star, Christ Iesus himselfe, came downe from Heauen to illighten the earth: The time of Antichrist, when all the world wondred after the Beast: Our times, wherein, of sixe parts of the earth, scarce one of the least is Christian. And what a deale of Christendome is still ouer-growne with Popery, and other exorbitant distempers in point of Religion? And where the Truth of Christ is purely, and powerfully taught, how few giue their names vnto it? And of those who professe, how many are false-hearted or meerely formall?