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…

6. Lastly, let us set aside in any Country, City, Town, Family: First, all Atheists, Papists, and distempered exorbirants, from the blessed Truth of doctrine taught in our Church: Secondly, all Whoremongers, Drunkards, Swearers, Liars, ⁱRevellers, Worldlings, Usurers, and fellows of such infamous rank: Thirdly, all merely civill men, who come short of Cato, Fabricius, and other honest Heathens, and wanting holiness, shall never see the Lord, Heb. 12. 14. Fourthly, all gross Hypocrites, whose outsides are painted with superficial flourishes of holiness and honesty, but their inward parts filled with rottenness and lust; who have their hands in godly exercises, when their hearts are in hell. Fifthly, ⟨p. 5⟩all formal Hypocrites, who are deluded in point of Salvation, as were the foolish Virgins, and that proud Pharisee, Luk. 18. 11. Sixthly, all final back-sliders, of which some turn sensual Epicures, and plunge themselves into worldly pleasures, with far more rage and greediness, by reason of former restraint by a temporary profession; others become scurrile deriders of the holy way; some, bloody goads in the sides of those with whom they have formerly walked into the house of God, as friends. Seventhly, all unsound Professors for the present, of which you would little think, what a number there is: I say, let these and all other strangers to the purity and power of godliness be set apart, and tell me how many true-hearted Nathaneels we are like to ^kfind?

6. Lastly, let vs set aside in any Country, Citie, Towne, Family: First, all Atheists, Papists, and distempered exorbirants, from the blessed Truth of doctrine taught in our Church: Secondly, all Whoremongers, Drunkards, Swearers, Lyers, ⁱReuellers, Worldlings, Vsurers, and fellowes of such infamous ranke: Thirdly, all meerely ciuill men, who come short of Cato, Fabricius, and other honest Heathens, and wanting holinesse, shall neuer see the Lord,