CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Thirdly, Good beginnings will have bad endings, when men profess Christ, not out of love to Christ, and pure intentions to him, but from sinister and worldly respects. Oh this covering and hiding will never hold! The Wolf will be at last a Wolf for all it's sheep-clothings; and this was Judas his case, his end was not pure, his eye was not single, and therefore his Apostasy was inevitable: To follow Christ for loaves, or to know him only after the flesh, will never endure; All flesh is grass, Isa. 40 6. but the word of God abides for ever, that is; not only the body of man is mortal, but all those ways of righteousness and holiness, which are not indeed, regeneration will certainly vanish. This is a great part of the meaning, if you compare this place with the whole context, 1 Pet 1.23, 24, 25. Jehu begins with zeal as hot as fire, yet his latter end was like Jeroboam's, for he walked in his ways, and all because his ends were not pure. Oh this is the sum of all! This is the soul and life of all. Observe diligently thy heart in the intentions and motions of it: Is it to have applause? Is it to be reputed of? Is it to accomplish great things for thy self? Thus we may ⟨p. 384⟩say of thy godliness, what is it thy body? Dust thou art, and to dust thou wilt return; The time is coming thou wilt not have a stone left upon a stone of that religious building, though once so many did admire it.

Thirdly, Good beginnings will have bad endings, when men professe Christ, not out of love to Christ, and pure intentions to him, but from sinister and worldly respects. Oh this covering and hiding will never hold! The Wolf will be at last a Wolf for all it's sheep-cloathings; and this was Judas his case, his end was not pure, his eye was not single, and therefore his Apostasie was inevitable: To follow Christ for loaves, or to know him only after the flesh, will never endure; All flesh is grasse, Isa. 40 6. but the word of God abides for ever, that is; not only the body of man is mortal, but all those wayes of righteousnesse and holinesse, which are not indeed, regeneration will certainly vanish. This is a great part of the meaning, if you compare this place with the whole context, 1 Pet 1.23, 24, 25. Jehu begins with zeal as hot as fire, yet his latter end was like Jeroboams, for he walked in his wayes, and all because his ends were not pure. Oh this is the summe of all! This is the soul and life of all. Observe diligently thy heart in the intentions and motions of it: Is it to have applause? Is it to be reputed of? Is it to accomplish great things for thy self? Thus we may