A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

But that whereby it is principally established and set up, is the darkness, ignorance, guilt, fear, terror of conscience, accompanied with a love of sin, that the most among them are subject and obnoxious unto, being disquieted, perplexed, and tormented with these things, and utterly ignorant of the true and only way of their removal and deliverance from them, they greedily embrace this sorry provision for their present ease and relief, being accommodated unto the utmost that humane or Diabolical craft can extend unto, to abate their fear, ease their torments, and to give security unto their superstitious minds. And hereby it is become to be the life and soul of their Religion, diffusing it self into all the parts and concerns of it, more trusted unto then either God or Christ, or the Gospel.

But that whereby it is principally established and set up, is the darkness, ignorance, guilt, fear, terrour of conscience, accompanied with a love of sin, that the most among them are subject and obnoxious unto, being disquieted, perplexed, and tormented with these things, and utterly ignorant of the true and only way of their removal and deliverance from them, they greedily embrace this sorry provision for their present ease and relief, being accommodated unto the utmost that humane or Diabolical craft can extend unto, to abate their fear, ease their torments, and to give security unto their superstitious minds. And hereby it is become to be the life and soul of their Religion, diffusing it self into all the parts and concerns of it, more trusted unto then either God or Christ, or the Gospel.

Spiritual light and experience, with the consequents of them in peace with God, will safeguard the minds of Believers from bowing down to this horrid image, though the acknowledgements of its divinity should be imposed on them with craft and force, otherwise it will not be done, for without this, there will a strong inclination and disposition arising from a mixture of superstitious fear and love of sin, possess the minds of men to close with this pretended relief and satisfaction. The foundation of our preservation herein lies in Spiritual light, or an ability of mind, from supernatural illumination, to discern the Beauty, Glory, and efficacy of the purging of our sins by the blood of Christ, when the glory of the wisdom and grace of God, of the love and grace of Christ of the power of the Holy Ghost herein, is made manifest unto us, we shall despise all the paintings of this invention, Dagon will fall before the Ark; and all these things do gloriously shine forth and manifest themselves unto believers in this mysterious way of purging all our sins by the blood of Christ.