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

1. To themselves. 2 Pet. 2. 20, 21. For if after they have escaped the Pollutions of the World, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, their latter end is worse with them than their beginning; for it had been better for them not to have known the way of Righteousness, than after they have known it, ⟨p. 384⟩to turn from the Holy Commandment delivered to them. Many have so much of the knowledge of Christ, as to cleanse their external Conversation. But Sin and the World were never so effectually cast out, but they are in secret League with them still; and therefore they are first entangled, and then overcome; first enticed by some Pleasure or Profit, and then carried away with the Temptation. But what cometh of this? Their latter end is worse than their beginning. Their Sin is greater, since they sin against Light and Taste; their Judgment is greater, both Spiritual and Eternal. As God giveth them over to brutish Lusts, and to the Power of Satan. And this will be a cutting thought to them to all Eternity, to remember how they lost their acquaintance with, and benefit by Christ, by looking back to the World, and deserting that good way wherein they found so much sweetness in Christ.

1. To themselves. 2 Pet. 2. 20, 21. For if after they have escaped the Pollutions of the World, through the knowledg of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ, they are again intangled therein, their latter end is worse with them than their beginning; for it had been better for them not to have known the way of Righteousness, than after they have known it, ⟨p. 384⟩to turn from the Holy Commandment delivered to them. Many have so much of the knowledg of Christ, as to cleanse their external Conversation. But Sin and the World were never so effectually cast out, but they are in secret League with them still; and therefore they are first intangled, and then overcome; first enticed by some Pleasure or Profit, and then carried away with the Temptation. But what cometh of this? Their lattar end is worse than their beginning. Their Sin is gre•ter, since they sin against Light and Taste; their Judgment is greater, both Spiritual and Eternal. As God giveth them over to brutish Lusts, and to the Power of Satan. And this will be a cutting thought to them to all Eternity, to remember how they lost their acquaintance with, and benefit by Christ, by looking back to the World, and deserting that good way wherein they found so much sweetness in Christ.