Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

3. NOT to enquire further into things internal and hidden, wherein Men may justify themselves if they please, there are too many open visible Evidences of these Decays among Professors of Religion; they have not kept them from ⟨p. 54⟩he Eyes of the Church, nor yet from the World. Do not Pride, Selfishness, Worldliness, Levity of Attire, and Vanity of Life, with corrupt unsavoury Communication, abound among many? The World was never in a worse posture for Conformity, than it is at this day, wherein all Flesh hath corrupted it's ways; and yet as unto things of outward appearance, how little distinction is left between it, and those who would be steemed more strict Professors of Religion! was this the way and manner of the Saints of old, of those that went before us in the same Profession? Was it so with our selves in the time of our first Espousals, when we went after God in the Wilderness, in a Land that was not sown; as Jerem. 2. 2? Some understand what I say: If we have not some of us had better days, we never had good days in our Lives; if we have had them, why do we not stir up our selves to look after a Recovery?

3. NOT to enquire further into things internal and hidden, wherein Men may justifie themselves if they please, there are too many open visible Evidences of these Decays among Professors of Religion; they have not kept them from ⟨p. 54⟩he Eyes of the Church, nor yet from the World. Do not Pride, Selfishness, Worldliness, Levity of Attire, and Vanity of Life, with corrupt unsavoury Communication, abound among many? The World was never in a worse posture for Conformity, than it is at this day, wherein all Flesh hath corrupted it's ways; and yet as unto things of outward appearance, how little dinstinction is left between it, and those who would be steemed more strict Professors of Religion! was this the way and manner of the Saints of old, of those that went before us in the same Profession? Was it so with our selves in the time of our first Espousals, when we went after God in the Wilderness, in a Land that was not sown; as Jerem. 2. 2? Some understand what I say: If we have not some of us had better days, we never had good days in our Lives; if we have had them, why do we not stir up our selves to look after a Recovery?