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X. Understand how it is that Satan hindereth Souls from being sanctified: That you may know how much to resist his Wiles. Some he deceiveth byⁱ malicious Suggestions, that Holiness is nothing but Fancy or Hypocrisy! (And if God and Death, and Heaven, and Hell, were Fancies, this might be believed.) Some he debaucheth by the power of fleshly Appetite and Lust, so that their Sins will not let their Reason speak: Some he keepeth in utter Ignorance, by the evil Education of ignorant Parents, and the negligence of^k ungodly Soul-murdering Teachers: some he deceiveth by worldly Hopes, and keepeth their Minds so taken up with worldly Things, that the Matters of Eternity can have but some loose and uneffectual Thoughts, or as bad as none: Some are entangled in^l ill Company, who make a scorn of a holy Life, and seed them with continual Diversions and vain Delights: And some are so ^mhardened in their Sin, that they are even past feeling, and neither fear God's Wrath, nor care for their Salvation, but hear these things as Men asleep, and nothing will awake them: Some are discouraged with a conceit that Godliness is a Life soⁿ grievous, sad, and melancholy, that rather than endure it, they will venture their Souls, come on it what will; (as if it were a grievous Life to love God, and hope for endless Joys, and a pleasant Life to love the World and Sin, and live within a step of Hell!) Some that are convinced, do^o ⟨p. 11⟩put off their Conversion with Delays, and think it's time enough hereafter; and are purposing and promising till it be too late, and Life, and Time, and Hope be ended. And some that see there is is a necessity of Holiness▪ are^p cheated by some dead Opinion, or Names, or Shows and Images of Holiness; either because they hold a strict Opinion, or because they join with a Religious Party, or because they are of that which they think is the true Church, or because they are baptized with Water, and observe the outward parts of Worship; and perhaps because they offer God a great deal of Lip-Service, and Lifeless Ceremony, which never savoured of a Holy Soul. Thus Deadness, Sensuality, Worldliness and Hypocrisy, do hinder Millions from Sanctification and Salvation.