An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

Oh! remember this, you that do often covenant with God, when you are in Prayer, Oh! how do you renew your Covenant with God? What promises do you make with God in Prayer, and yet you grow again loose, and false, and vile afterwards? Oh! you must not rejoice as other people; you look upon a Drunkard that reels in the streets, and hear a Swearer blaspheme the Name of God, yea, but that may not be so great an evil as the vanity of thy spirit, And why? The looseness of thy heart, and those secret sins thou art guilty of, because thou hast so covenanted and bound thy self to God: the Drunkard was never made sensible of his sin and wrath of God upon his conscience; but the wrath of God hath been upon thy conscience, and thou hast engaged thy self to God, if he would show mercy, Oh! thou wouldst walk holily and strictly before him: Now doest thou think that thy sins are as the sins of other people? They never had such Soul-quickening Ordinances, but go up and down to Taverns and Alehouses, and never know what a powerful Sermon meant upon their hearts, and had they such means as thou hast, then it's like it would be with them far better than now; and the Name of God is not so much polluted by them as by ⟨p. 151⟩thee; thou that art a Professor of Religion the eyes of all men are upon thee, and in thy sin thou doest not only disobey God, but thou doest pollute the Name of God, thou art a stumbling block unto others, and the cause of the hardening of many hundreds in their sins, and therefore thy sin certainly is worse than others. This would be a great Point to show how the sins of the Professors of Religion are worse than others, and therefore it is not enough for you to say, We are all sinners: No, we must not excuse our selves in this, that others are guilty as well as we, Oh! but consider what aggravations there is of thy sin more than there is of the sins of others; It is a sign of a very carnal heart to think to go away thus, it's true, I sin, and others sin as well as I do; yea, but a true penitent heart will not only consider that he is a sinner, but what aggravations are there upon his sin more than upon the sins of others? and so will lay it upon their hearts, It's true, such and such sin, but had they what I have had, it would not be so with them;

Oh! remember this, you that do often covenant with God, when you are in Prayer, Oh! how do you renew your Covenant with God? What promises do you make with God in Prayer, and yet you grow again loose, and false, and vile afterwards? Oh! you must not rejoyce as other people; you look upon a Drunkard that reels in the streets, and hear a Swearer blaspheme the Name of God, yea, but that may not be so great an evil as the vanity of thy spirit, And why? The loosness of thy heart, and those secret sins thou art guilty of, because thou hast so covenanted and bound thy self to God: the Drunkard was never made sensible of his sin and wrath of God upon his conscience; but the wrath of God hath been upon thy conscience, and thou hast engaged thy self to God, if he would shew mercy, Oh! thou would'st walk holily and strictly before him: Now doest thou think that thy sins are as the sins of other people? They never had such Soul-quickning Ordinances, but go up and down to Taverns and Alehouses, and never know what a powerful Sermon meant upon their hearts, and had they such means as thou hast, then it's like it would be with them far better than now; and the Name of God is not so much polluted by them as by