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3 If God call you, you are likely to be greater instruments of his glory then others. A persecuting Saul became a preaching Paul; a wanton Mary became a weeping Mary; she, whose whoredoms had been spoken of in all the places where she dwelt, afterward her grace came to be spoken of wheresoever the Gospel was preached. So much for the first branch of that use.

3 If God call you, you are likely to be greater instruments of his glory then others. A persecuting Saul became a preaching Paul; a wanton Mary became a weeping Mary; she, whose whoredomes had been spoken of in all the places where she dwelt, afterward her grace came to be spoken of wheresoever the Gospel was preached. So much for the first branch of that use.

2 Because Doctrines of comfort many men suck poison from, and so get their ruin; therefore I shall lay down a Caution or two. Take heed you do not abuse this doctrine.

2 Because Doctrines of comfort many men suck poyson from, and so get their ruine; therefore I shall lay down a Caution or two. Take heed you do not abuse this doctrine.

1 Do not make the conversion of any scandalous sinner to be any stumbling block in your way to heaven. It was the great stumbling block in the way of the Pharisees, when they saw that Christ would eat meat with Publicans and sinners, they said, He was a friend of Publicans and sinners. Do not entertain hard thoughts of Christ, not of the ways of Christ for that. Indeed, if religion were any cloak for sin, if it did countenance and encourage men in sin, it were something; but it is that which makes of a sinner a Saint. Conversion, though it find us vile and bad, it doth not leave us so.