Luke 14.26, 27, 33. If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother, and Wife and Children, and Brothers and Sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my Disciple: and whosoever doth not bear his Cross and come after me, cannot be my Disciple: whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my Disciple. This is spoken of true Disciples in heart (the first significatum) by him that knew the heart: From whence I argue thus, (If none are Christs Disciples in heart, nor can be, but those that value him above all, and will forsake all for him if he require it: then none can be his Disciples by external Profession, but those that Profess to esteem him above all, and to be willing to forsake all rather then forsake him: But the former is proved by the Text: The consequence is clear, in that the world hath hitherto been acquainted but with two sorts of Christians, or Disciples of Christ: the one such sincerely in heart; and the other such by Profession: and the latter are so called because they profess to be what the other are indeed, and what themselves are if they sincerely so profess. And it is the same thing Professed which makes a man a Professed Christian, which being found in the heart doth make a man a hearty Christian. Of these two sorts of Disciples & people of God, I spake as plain as I ⟨p. 94⟩could speak, pag. 4. of the Saints Rest: But Mr. Blake never sticks when he meets with such passages to persuade the world that they are my self-contradictions, and that they make for him: as if it were all one to Profess a saving faith, even the Acceptance of Christ, and to Profess a faith short of saving. But I perceive by this how he is like to use other Authors that cannot speak for themselves, that would persuade men that I speak for him, even where I expressly speak for the same cause which I now maintain against him.
Luke 14.26, 27, 33. If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother, and Wife and Children, and Brothers and Sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my Disciple: and whosoever doth not bear his Cross and come after me, cannot be my Disciple: whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my Disciple. This is spoken of true Disciples in heart (the first significatum) by him that knew the heart: From whence I argue thus, (If none are Christs Disciples in heart, nor can be, but those that value him above all, and will forsake all for him if he require it: then none can be his Disciples by external Profession, but those that Profess to esteem him above all, and to be willing to forsake all rather then forsake him: But the former is proved by the Text: The consequence is clear, in that the world hath hitherto been acquainted but with two sorts of Christians, or Disciples of Christ: the one such sincerely in heart; and the other such by Profession: and the latter are so called because they profess to be what the other are indeed, and what themselves are if they sincerely so profess. And it is the same thing Professed which makes a man a Professed Christian, which being found in the heart doth make a man a hearty Christian. Of these two sorts of Disciples & people of God, I spake as plain as I ⟨p. 94⟩could speak, pag. 4. of the Saints Rest: But Mr. Blake never sticks when he meets with such passages to perswade the world that they are my self-contradictions, and that they make for him: as if it were all one to Profess a saving faith, even the Acceptance of Christ, and to Profess a faith short of saving. But I perceive by this how he is like to use other Authors that cannot speak for themselves, that would perswade men that I speak for him, even where I expresly speak for the same cause which I now maintain against him.
