Sermons preached

USE 1. Is to confute Mens Presumptions of their Eternal good Estate, whereby many damnably delude their own Souls.

1. Some, when they hear, that whosoever believeth shall be saved, have a carnal Notion of Christ, that if he were alive they would own him, and receive him into their Houses, and use him more friendly than the Jews did. This is but a knowing Christ after the Flesh, 2 Cor. 5. 16. He is not to be received into your Houses, but into your Hearts. Besides, we do not know our own Hearts, or what we should have done if we had lived then; a Person of such contemptible appearance as Christ was, and so free in his Reproofs of the Sins of the Times, would not have been for our turn no more than theirs. The Jews said, Mat. 23. 30. If we had lived in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been guilty of the Blood of the Prophets. The Memory of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, was as detestable to the carnal Jews, as that of Judas and Pontius Pilate to Christians; but they were not a whit the better Men, no more are we.

1. Some, when they hear, that whosoever believeth shall be saved, have a carnal Notion of Christ, that if he were alive they would own him, and receive him into their Houses, and use him more friendly than the Iews did. This is but a knowing Christ after the Flesh, 2 Cor. 5. 16. He is not to be received into your Houses, but into your Hearts. Besides, we do not know our own Hearts, or what we should have done if we had lived then; a Person of such contemptible appearance as Christ was, and so free in his Reproofs of the Sins of the Times, would not have been for our turn no more than theirs. The Iews said, Mat. 23. 30. If we had lived in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been guilty of the Blood of the Prophets. The Memory of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, was as detestable to the carnal Iews, as that of Iudas and Pontius Pilate to Christians; but they were not a whit the better Men, no more are we.