1. Omission of duty. Prayer, reading the Word, Meditation, &c. Any thing will be for excuse to lay by duties, and we are secretly glad of an excuse.
⟨p. 96⟩2. Remissness in duty. In things of the world we are all in all, and all in every part; a man cannot thrust another thought into us; but in Prayer, how many things are we doing?
3. Hypocrisy. How unlike are we at home, to what abroad? and in company, to what in secret?
4. Pride. In apparel, houses, parts, blood, birth-right, yea, of grace it self, of humility, Ministers, Ordinances, &c.
5. Covetousness. Never did covetousness invade the professing party as now: The more goods men get, the less good they do.
6. Sensuality. Voluptuousness, wantonness: Christians let themselves loose to the Creature; lay out their affections on things below, as if that part in the Serpents curse (to lick the dust of the earth) were the•r own ss well as his.
7. Animosities and divisions amongst Christians: many have been active to kindle, but few to quench divisions.
8. Uncharitable censuring one another.
9. Formality in duty. Witness
1. Unprepared coming.
2. Unsuitableness of spirit to: And
3. Want of reflection after duty, how we have sped, what we have got; Sabbath, Sacraments, come and goes, Monday morning finds us the same as before.
Misspent-Sabbaths. Some profane, others idle away the Sabbath, &c.
11. Neglect of our Bibles in our […] and Closets. I pray God it forego not some great evil coming upon you, as before the massacre in Germany it was observed, &c. I proceed.
⟨p. 97⟩12. The want of mutual forbearance among Christians Alas, Christians know not how to bear one with another in the least kind of measure. Oh the short-spiritedness amongst Christians, they cannot bear one anotherb•rdens, they cannot bear with one another. 'Tis very sad, that we that stand in need of so much forbearance, should express so little to our Brother: 'Tis an Argument we know not of what spirit we are of (as Christ told his Disciples.) Oh! how unlike to are we that God whom we profess to be our God? He is longsuffering, patient, full of goodness, gentleness, mercy, &c. we can bear nothing, we can suffer nothing one from another.
13. Our great murmuring against Reformation and Reformers (God hath heard the voice of our Murmuring, Exod. 16.) As if there had been nothing that would have undone us but Reformation:
1. Omission of duty. Prayer, reading the Word, Meditation, &c. Any thing will be for excuse to lay by duties, and we are secretly glad of an excuse.
⟨p. 96⟩2. Remisness in duty. In things of the world we are all in all, and all in every part; a man cannot thrust another thought into us; but in Prayer, how many things are we doing?
3. Hypocrisie. How unlike are we at home, to what abroad? and in company, to what in secret?
4. Pride. In apparel, houses, parts, bloud, birth-right, yea, of grace it self, of humility, Ministers, Ordinances, &c.
5. Covetousness. Never did covetousness invade the professing party as now: The more goods men get, the less good they do.
6. Sensuality. Voluptuousness, wantonness: Christians let themselves loose to the Creature; lay out their affections on things below, as if that part in the Serpents curse (to lick the dust of the earth) were the•r own ss well as his.
7. Anim•sities and divisions amongst Christians: many have been active to kindle, but few to quench divisions.
8. Uncharitable censuring one anoth•r.
9. Formality in duty. Witness
1. Unprepared coming.
2. Unsutableness of spirit to: And
3. Want of reflection after duty, how we have sped, what we have got; Sabbath, Sacraments, come and goes, Monday morning finds us the same as before.
Misspent-Sablaths. Some prophane, others idle away the Sabbath, &c.
11. Neglect of our Bibles in our 〈…〉 and Closets. I pray God it forego not some great evil coming upon you, as before the massacre in Germany it was observed, &c. I proceed.
⟨p. 97⟩12. The want of mutual forlearance among Christians Alas, Christians know not how to bear one with another in the least kind of measure. Oh the short-spiritedness amongst Christians, they cannot bear one anotherb•rdens, they cannot bear with one another. 'Tis very sad, that we that stand in need of so much forbearance, should express so little to our Brother: 'Tis an Argument we know not of what spirit we are of (as Christ told his Disciples.) Oh! how unlike to are we that God whom we profess to be our God? He is longsuffering, patient, full of goodness, gentleness, mercy, &c. we can bear nothing, we can suffer nothing one from another.
13. Our great murmuring against Reformation and Reformers (God hath heard the voice of our Murmuring, Exod. 16.) As if there had been nothing that would have undone us but Reformation:
