Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…

1. Outward Ordinances. 2. Partial Morality.

1. Outward Ordinances. To rest in your attendance upon, and use of these. Consider how displeased God was with those that submitted to Sacraments without ⟨p. 143⟩Reformation; 1 Cor. 10. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. With many of them God was not well-pleased, but they were overthrown in the Wilderness; Spiritual Meat, and Spiritual Drink, could not keep them from Destruction; when they murmured, when they fell from Christ to Idolatry, when they lusted after Quails, when they tempted Christ; And will he be more favourable to you? Oh! rest not then in the outward use of the Ordinances of Christ; God may vouchsafe you this Favour, and yet not be well-pleased with you. Many that have eaten and drunk in his Presence, yet are finally rejected for their sins, Luke 13. 26. Many prize the Seal, yet tear the Bond; that is, break the Covenant, yet seem to value the Seal of the Covenant, that they may have Confidence in the Flesh, in the bare external Performance.

2. Partial Morality: Those that live fairly, and plausibly, but want the true Principle, the Spirit of Christ; the true Rule, the Word of God; the true End, the Glory of God: that are in with one Duty, and out with another; fail in their Duties to God or Men: Are much in Worship, but defective in common Righteousness: ⟨p. 144⟩Love Friends, but cannot forgive Enemies: It may be they'll forgive Wrongs, but make no Conscience of paying Debts. Now there are two Arguments against these; these neither understand the Law, nor the Gospel: Not the Law, its Strictness, Purity, and Spiritual Exactness: Nor the Gospel, which offereth a Remedy only to the Penitent; those who are deeply affected with the pollution of their Natures, the Sins of their Lives, and the Consequent Misery. But those that are puffed up with a vain conceit of the goodness of their Estate, without any brokenness of Heart,