The vain religion of the formal hypocrite, and the mischief of an unbridled tongue…

but not those that make the world their God, and would put God off with a few running heartless words and duties. It is the living fruitful branches that he will save: but the withered branches he casteth forth, to be burned in the fire, Joh. 15. 2, 6, 7. No man can serve God and Mammon: nor live both to the Spirit and the flesh: he that hath two hearts, hath none that's ⟨p. 140⟩acceptable unto God: he that hath two faces (a face of devotion in his formal customary services, and a face that smiles on the world and fleshly pleasures when he hath done) hath none that God will ever smile upon. The leaves of the barren fig-tree, saved it not from the curse of Christ, Matth. 21. 18, 19. Hew it down and cast it into the fire, shall be the sentence of the most flourishing tree that's fruitless, Luk. 13. 7. [The earth that drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: but that which beareth thorns and briers, is rejected, and is nigh to cursing, whose end is to be burned,] Heb. 6. 7, 8. So that if thy Religion be vain, the blood of Christ, and all the treasures of his grace, will be vain to thee, that are saving unto others. An Infidel may then ⟨p. 141⟩as well expect to be saved by the Christ whom he rejected, as thou. Nay it is Christ himself that will condemn thee: It is his own mouth that will say to such as thee, Depart from me, ye that work iniquity. And though thou couldest say, [Lord, Lord, I have Prophesied, or cast out devils, or done many wonderful works in thy Name] he [will profess to thee that he never knew thee] or owned thee, Matth. 7. 22, 23. If crying would then serve, I know thou wouldst not spare thy cries. But he must so pray as to be accepted and heard on earth, that looks to be accepted and regarded then; when the miserable soul with endless horrors in its eye, is looking round about for help, and findeth none; when all the creatures say, We cannot, and he that can shall say, I will not; who can apprehend the calamity of such a soul? What soul so