The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

3. A Believer is one that judgeth of the man by his invisible inside, and not by outward appearances with a fleshly worldly judgement. He seeth by faith a greater ugliness in sin, than in any the most deformed monster. When the unbeliever saith, what harm is it to please my flesh, in ease, or pride, or meat and drink, or lustful wantonness? the believer takes it as the question of a fool, that should ask [what harm is it to take a dram of Mercury or Arsenic?] He seeth the vicious evil, and foreseeth the consequent penal evil, by the eye of faith. And therefore it is that he pitieth the ungodly, when they pity not themselves, and speaks to them oft with a tender heart in compassion of their misery, and perhaps weeps over them (as Paul, Phil. 3.18, 19.) when he cannot prevail; when they weep not for themselves, but hate his love, and scorn his pity, and bid him keep his lamentations for himself; because they see not what he sees.

3. A Believer is one that judgeth of the man by his invisible inside, and not by outward appearances with a fleshly worldly judgement. He seeth by faith a greater ugliness in sin, than in any the most deformed monster. When the unbeliever saith, what harm is it to please my flesh, in ease, or pride, or meat and drink, or lustful wantonness? the believer takes it as the question of a fool, that should ask [what harm is it to take a dram of Mercury or Arsenick?] He seeth the vicious evil, and foreseeth the consequent penal evil, by the eye of faith. And therefore it is that he pittieth the ungodly, when they pitty not themselves, and speaks to them oft with a tender heart in compassion of their misery, and perhaps weeps over them (as Paul, Phil. 3.18, 19.) when he cannot prevail; when they weep not for themselves, but hate his love, and scorn his pitty, and bid him keep his lamentations for himself; because they see not what he sees.

He seet• also the inward beauty of the Saints, (as it shineth forth in the holiness of their lives) and through all their sordid poverty and contempt, beholdeth the image of God upon them. For he judgeth not of sin or holiness as they now appear to the distracted world; but as they will be judged of at the day which he foreseeth; when sin will be the shame, and holiness the honoured and desired state.