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…

Though it be no constant character of Dogs and Swine, yet commonly those desperate wretches, to whom by Christ▪s commandment we must give no holy things, are fellows of dogged, sour and contracted countenances, especially towards true Christians; and have a kind of desperate furiousness impressed upon their foreheads, which is then most visible, when they are crossed in their villainies, and hear of any contradiction, or condemnation of their graceless courses and contemptuous carriages. And those Swinish Gadarenes, before whom we must cast no Pearls, are fellows of a •leering, gibing and scornful carriage, especially towards good men, and godly exercises: they are so drowned in sensuality, and glued to the earth; that they do not only despise, but also deride the precious things of Heaven. As I take it, sensuality, and earthly mindedness, mingled with a great deal of Atheism, begetteth in men this sottish swinishness, and brutish contempt of the blessings of Grace, and directions to everlasting bliss.

Though it be no constant character of Dogs and Swine, yet commonly those desperate wretches, to whō by Christ▪s commandement we must giue no holy things, are fellowes of dogged, sowre and contracted countenances, especially towards true Christians; and haue a kinde of desperate furiousnesse impressed vpon their foreheads, which is then most visible, when they are crost in their villanies, and heare of any contradiction, or condemnation of their gracelesse courses and contemptuous carriages. And those Swinish Gadarens, before whom we must cast no Pearles, are fellowes of a •leering, gibing and scornefull carriage, especially towards good men, and godly exercises: they are so drowned in sensualitie, and glued to the earth; that they doe not onely despise, but also deride the precious things of Heauen. As I take it, sensualitie, and earthly mindednesse, mingled with a great deale of Atheisme, begetteth in men this sottish swinishnesse, and brutish contempt of the blessings of Grace, and directions to euerlasting blisse.