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…

These two reasons of the Commandment lye the Text: Give ye not, &c. lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rent you. Whence we have also some light to discern who are Dogs, who are Swine.

These two reasons of the Commandement lye the Text: Giue ye not, &c. lest they trample them vnder their feete, and turne againe and rent you. Whence wee haue also some light to discerne who are Dogs, who are Swine.

1. By Dogs, we see, are meant obstinate enemies, that maliciously¹ revile the Ministry of the Word, the Doctrine of God, and the Messengers thereof; who do not only tread the words of instruction and reproof under foot, but also turn again, and all to rend the Teachers, and furiously fly in the face of those who fairly tell them of their faults. Consider this and tremble, all ye that are become scornful and furious opposites to the power and purity of the Word, and bloody goads in the sides of the faithfullest Ministers. Alas, poor wretches, forlorn Caitiffs, you cast your selves desperately into that accursed and horrible condition, that every good man is bound in conscience not to afford you so much as an admonition, or reproof, or a caveat to prevent those curses which are coming upon you. And you wilfully draw upon your own heads that most fearful doom from Gods Spirit, and from the Church of God; He that is filthy, ²let him be filthy still. He that is a Swine, let him be Swinish still. He that rails against the power of Grace, let him continue still a mad Dog. He that sets himself maliciously ⟨p. 116⟩against the Ministry of the Word; let that man receive no comfort or benefit by the Word of Life. If he will needs, let him roar still, swagger, be drunk, despair, die, and be damned.

1. By Dogs, we see, are meant obstinate enemies, that maliciously