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But they say, we must do it in Thankfulness, for being saved already: But what good is in that Thankfulness, when it doth no good to God or man, to our selves or others? Is not this to trust to works? All Acts with them are Works, and Thankfulness is an Act or Habit.

And if we are never the better for Love, Thanks, and Praises to God on earth, what the better shall we be for them in Heaven? What do these men preach for? What do they gather Churches for? And what do they exercise strictness for, by their self devised terms of their Church-Communion? What do they write for and wrangle for, while they profess that it is not to do any good, to God, to themselves, to the elect, or to the reprobate (which undeniably followeth)? I know you speak for Faith, Prayer, and Holiness, and I think you pray your selves: But to what end, Christ saith, ask and have, seek and find; Dr. Crispe saith, seek not to find: O think not that you shall be ever the better for praying, or any thing else that you do in the greatest height of Piety. Is Prayer only a Thanksgiving? I knew an old Man (one Dishforth, by Calverley near Bradford in Yorkshire) who went among the Followers of Hacket and Coppinger, called, Grundletonians (from the Town where they lived): And going for Novelty among them, they breathed on him, and he came home so transported, that he left his former way of Praying in his Family, with Confession and Petition, and did all by Ecstasy, and Thanksgiving, and Praise, and so continued about a Fortnight, and then returned to Humility, and repented (himself and his Son were my Informers.)

And if we are never the better for Love, Thanks, and Praises to God on earth, what the better shall we be for them in Heaven? What do these men preach for? What do they gather Churches for? And what do they exercise strictness for, by thier self devised terms of their Church-Communion? What do they write for and wrangle for, while they profess that it is not to do any good, to God, to themselves, to the elect, or to the reprobate (which undenyably followeth)? I know you speak for Faith, Prayer, and Holiness, and I think you pray your selves: But to what end, Christ saith, ask and have, seek and find; Dr. Crispe saith, seek not to find: O think not that you shall be ever the better for praying, or any thing else that you do in the greatest heigth of Piety. Is Prayer only a Thanksgiving? I knew an old Man (one Dishforth, by Calverley near Bradford in Yorkshire) who went among the Followers of Hacket and Coppinger, called, Grundletonians (from the Town where they lived): And going for Novelty among them, they breathed on him, and he came home so transported, that he left his former way of Praying in his Family, with Confession and Petition, and did all by Extasy, and Thanksgiving, and Praise, and so continued about a Fortnight, and then returned to Humility, and repented (himself and his Son were my Informers.)