A sermon directing what we are to do, after strict enquiry whether or no…

We are sure there will be an Assembly, a General Assembly, in which no one that is not a lover of God will be found, an Assembly of Glorious Angels, and of the Spirits of Just Men made perfect, a numerous, an innumerable Assembly, in which not one but a sincere lover of God. What a blessed thing were it, if our Assemblies on Earth were such! But we cannot speak more gently, than to say, there is cause to fear they are not such: It hath been actually otherwise among a People professing the true Religion; They come before thee, and sit before thee as my People, and with their mouth show much love with [their face] or in external appearance and show [ore tenus:] they are lovers of God, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them, Ezek. 33.31. If such a Case hath been actually, it is still possible, and is still too much to be feared to be but too common a case.

We are sure there will be an Assembly, a General Assembly, in which no one that is not a lover of God will be found, an Assembly of Glorious Angels, and of the Spirits of Just Men made perfect, a numerous, an innumerable Assembly, in which not one but a sincere lover of God. What a blessed thing were it, if our Assemblies on Earth were such! But we cannot speak more gently, than to say, there is cause to fear they are not such: It hath been actually otherwise among a People professing the true Religion; They come before thee, and sit before thee as my People, and with their mouth shew much love with [their face] or in external appearance and shew [ore tenus:] they are lovers of God, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them, Ezek. 33.31. If such a Case hath been actually, it is still possible, and is still too much to be feared to be but too common a case.

But now supposing that there be different Cases amongst us; in reference to these different Cases, there must be very different Deportments, and a very different management of […] selves. This ⟨p. 3⟩