Sermons preached

The Uses are,

1. For Reproof of many professing Christians, who are not more prepared for the Lord, and made ready for every good Work. Alas! some are to every good Work reprobate, Tit. 1. 16. unfit for any Christian Practice. In others all their Holiness standeth in being less vicious or wicked than others. If they avoid the greater Crimes, though they freely practise the less, they are accounted good Men. Some talk, but do nothing, like Cypress-Trees, tall and beautiful, but unfruitful; or the Carbuncle, afar off seeming all on fire, but the Touch discovers it to be key-cold: their Zeal is more in their Tongues than their Actions. Others are very unready, arguing for a Mediocrity, disputing every inch with God, beating down the price of Religion as low as they can, as little Worship and Charity as may be, and will do no more than needeth, and it is well if they do that. True Goodness, like live-Honey, droppeth of its own accord, 2 Cor. 8. 2. and is ⟨p. 403⟩always desirous to do more for God. Psal. 71. 14. I will praise thee more and more. Phil. 1. 9. I pray that your Love may abound yet more and more, in Knowledge, and in all Judgment. 1 Thess. 4. 1. Furthermore, we exhort you, Brethren, That as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. But little of this Temper is to be found.

1. For Reproof of many professing Christians, who are not more prepared for the Lord, and made ready for every good Work. Alas! some are to every good Work reprobate,