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…

1. Some of these are Swine, as it were, only in practise: they do not say much, or keep any great grunting against good men; but they feed unsatiably, though silently, upon the dross and filth of sensual pleasures and carnal contentments: and if at any time a Pearl be cast in their way; I mean, a seasonable reproof ministered unto them, they trample it in the mire, and with a brutish baseness tread it under foot; because indeed they hate to be reformed, and are sottishly and stubbornly resolved, not to exchange these worldly pleasures which they have in present possession and pursuit, for the glory of an hundred heavens, which Preachers so much talk of, but they cannot taste of, or tell when to come thither.

1. Some of these are Swine, as it were, only in practise: they do not say much, or keepe any great grunting against good men; but they feed vnsatiably, though silently, vpon the drosse and filth of sensuall pleasures and carnall contentments: and if at any time a Pearle bee cast in their way; I meane, a seasonable reproofe ministred vnto them, they trample it in the mire, and with a bruitish basenesse tread it vnder foote; because indeed they hate to be reformed, and are sottishly and stubbornly resolued, not to exchange these worldly pleasures which they haue in present possession and pursuite, for the glory of an hundred heauens, which Preachers so much talke of, but they cannot taste of, or tell when to come thither.

2. Other Swine there are, as it were both in practise and profession; who besides their hating to be reformed, and obstinate resolution not to forgo their present pleasures, or forsake their former ways, are also possessed with a spirit of scoffing. These are rather wild Boars: for with a furious and Giant-like insolency and outrage, they provoke, and challenge the mighty Lord of heaven, about the truth of his¹ Judgements and Promises, making a mock of them.

2. Other Swine there are, as it were both in practise and profession; who besides their hating to bee reformed, and obstinate resolution not to forgoe their present pleasures, or forsake their former wayes, are also possessed with a spirit of scoffing. These are rather wild Boares: for with a furious and Giant-like insolency and outrage, they prouoke, and challenge the mighty Lord of heauen, about the truth of his