A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Peradventure some have yet another Objection: this is an hard saying (say divers Malignants) we are looked upon as enemies, if we come not in and take the Covenant, and when we are come in and have taken the Covenant, we are still esteemed enemies to the cause of God, and to his servants. Answ. This is just, as if those traitors, Covenant breakers, and other scandalous persons, from which the Apostle bids us turn away, 2 Tit. 3. 5. had objected, if we have no form of Godliness, we are looked upon as aliens, and such as are not to be numbered among Gods people, yet now when we have taken on a form of godliness, we are in no better esteem with Paul, but still he will have Christians to turn away from us: Yea, 'tis as if workers of iniquity living in the true Church, should object against Christ himself, if we pray not, if we hear not the word, &c. we are not accepted, but rejected for the neglect of necessary duties, yet when we have prayed, heard, &c: we are told for all that: Depart from me ye workers of iniquity, I never knew you. Men must be judged according ⟨p. 191⟩to their fruits, according to their words and works, and course of living; and if any who have taken the Covenant, show themselves in their words and actions, to be still wicked enemies, our eyes must not be put out with their hand at the Covenant.

Peradventure some have yet another Objection: this is an hard saying (say divers Malignants) we are looked upon as enemies, if we come not in and take the Covenant, and when we are come in and have taken the Covenant, wee are still esteemed enemies to the cause of God, and to his servants. Answ. This is just, as if those traitors, Covenant breakers, and other scandalous persons, from which the Apostle bids us turne away, 2 Tit. 3. 5. had objected, if we have no forme of Godlinesse, we are looked upon as aliens, and such as are not to be numbered among Gods people, yet now when wee have taken on a forme of godlinesse, we are in no better esteem with Paul, but still he will have Christians to turne away from us: Yea, 'tis as if workers of iniquity living in the true Church, should object against Christ himself, if we pray not, if wee hear not the word, &c. we are not accepted, but rejected for the neglect of necessary duties, yet when wee have prayed, heard, &c: we are told for all that: Depart from me yee workers of iniquity, I never knew you. Men must bee judged according