A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

Answ. 'Tis true, the world prevails with many professors, but many of them were never truly born of God, as Demas and Judas, Ananias and Sapphira.

Answ. 'Tis true, the world prevails with many professors, but many of them were never truly born of God, as Demas and Judas, Ananias and Saphira.

Obj. Do you think that every one that is led away with the world, hath no shred of true grace in him?

Answ. No, for then I might condemn the generation of the righteous; for it may easily fall out, that sometimes the servants of God are so filled with the world, that they have much ado to take pains about edifying themselves, or keeping peace with God. But yet, though a true Christian be led captive by the world, so as he hath little skill in any thing else but worldly matters; full of dexterity in the world, and but a bungler in grace; yet if a man be born of God, the Spirit of God at length will let him see his error, and then be will mourn for it, and oppose and resist to the death. As a child getting into a boat, at length the wind riseth, and carrieth the boat from the shore, and tosses him in the deep, he is not able to use the oars to bring him to the shore, but after much toiling he is drowned, and a puff of wind, or the return of the flood, casts him on the shore dead: So, many times a Christian falls a tampering with the world, and it pleaseth him well, till at length the world heaves and carries him up, until he be carried into the main, plunged so deep in the world, that he sees he hath lost his love to God, and then he strives to recover himself, and labours and goes mourning to his ⟨p. 355⟩grave but at his death, he is cast up safely on the shore, the seed of God hath kept some life of grace in him.