A holy life, the beauty of Christianity, or, An exhortation to Christians to be…

I say 'tis marvellous to see how such men are captivated with the forgetfulness of this. They are as if they never had been them men; they are, as if they never had had such things; or as if they had never had ⟨p. 61⟩thought about them. Yea, they are strange, and carry it strangely to all those that still are under the power of that word, and of that mighty hand, by which sometimes themselves were guided.

I say 'tis marvelous to see how such men are captivated with the forgetfulness of this. They are as if they never had been them men; they are, as if they never had had such things; or as if they had never had ⟨p. 61⟩thought about them. Yea, they are strange, and carry it strangely to all those that still are under the power of that word, and of that mighty hand, by which sometimes themselves were guided.

Should one say to some, Art not thou the man that I once saw crying under a Sermon, that I once heard cry out, what must I do to be saved, and that sometime ago I heard speak well of the holy word of God: how askew will they look upon one; or if they will acknowledge that such things were with them once, they do it more like images and rejected Ghosts, than men. They look as if they were blasted, withered,¹ cast out and dried to powder, and now fit for nothing, but to be cast into the fire, and burned. The godliness from which they are departed, and the iniquity unto which again they have joined themselves, has so altered, so metamorphosed, and changed their heart, and mind, and ways. This therefore is the second thing which shows why some that have been under something of the power of ⟨p. 62⟩things, are again with iniquity, entangled and overcome.