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

Secondly, It is a great piece of Insolency, for it will be to oppose your Judgment to his certain and most authorized Judgment: Who, if this be your case, hath already judged it, and tells you, I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. It belongs to him by Office to Judge. The Father hath committed all Judgment to the Son, as a little above in this Chapter: From what will you depose him? dethrone him? disannul his Judgment? condemn him? that thou may be righteous? (to borrow that Job 40.8.)

Secondly, It is a great piece of Insolency, for it will be to oppose your Judgment to his certain and most authoriz'd Judgment: Who, if this be your case, hath already judg'd it, and tells you, I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. It belongs to him by Office to Judge. The Father hath committed all Judgment to the Son, as a little above in this Chapter: From what will you depose him? dethrone him? disannul his Judgment? condemn him? that thou may be righteous? (to borrow that Job 40.8.)

Thirdly, It's most absurd supposing such Characters as you have heard, do conclude against a Man in this case, yet to judge himself a lover of God: If against the Evidence of such Characters a Man should pronounce the wrong Judgment, it would be the most unreasonable and absurd thing imaginable: For then let us but suppose how that wrong Judgment must lye, related to those fore-mentioned Characters that have been given you.

Thirdly, It's most absurd supposing such Characters as you have heard, do conclude against a Man in this case, yet to judge himself a lover of God: If against the Evidence of such Characters a Man should pronounce the wrong Judgment, it would be the most unreasonable and absurd thing imaginable: For then let us but suppose how that wrong Judgment must lye, related to those fore-mention'd Characters that have been given you.