The application of redemption

It is not then a breach of Charity to judg the tree by the fruits, the […] by the Symptoms, yea; it was folly and little less than madness to do other; As the Word […] I may judg, and so should.

It is not then a breach of Charity to judg the tree by the fruits, the 〈…〉 by the Symptomes, yea; it was folly and little less than madness to do other; As the Word 〈…〉 I may judg, and so should.

But to […] the Lord out of the Throne of Judgment, to sit upon the life and death of mens souls, to set down mens peremptory doom further than the Word warrants, as though we had been admitted into Gods secrets, and seen the Books of Reprobation and Election drawn, this is hellish impiety and presumption; we may boldly say, the tree is not a Vine that brings forth Thorns, nor that a Fig-tree that beareth Thistles; he who hath a naughty life, cannot have a good heart, He who serves 'Mammon, cannot serve God, Mat. 6. 24. He who walks after the lusts of the flesh, must be a stranger from the life of Christ, Rom. 8. 1. hath not yet his Spirit, is in the state of Condemnation, and that if he so continue, he shall perish, but whether he shall be converted and brought home at last by the Almighty Power of the Lord, it rests only in his own bosom, depends alone upon his good pleasure; leave we then the Sentence with the Lord, who will either recover him out of his sin, or most righteously judg him for it.

But to 〈…〉 the Lord out of the Throne of Judgment, to sit upon the life and death of mens souls, to set down mens peremptory doom further than the Word warrants, as though we had been admitted into Gods secrets, and seen the Books of Reprobation and Election drawn, this is hellish impiety and presumption; we may boldly say, the tree is not a Vine that brings forth Thorns, nor that a Fig-tree that beareth Thistles; he who hath a naughty life, cannot have a good heart, He who serves 'Mammon, cannot serve God,