The Sincere Convert

One may trap these people thus: Follow them in their private houses, there is worldliness, passion, looseness, and to their private chambers, there they ordinarily neglect or shuffle over duties to their private vain thoughts. In this Tiring house you shall then see these stage players, their shop-windows are shut, here no honesty is to be seen scarce, because their gain, their respect comes not in at this door where none beholds them: Let either Minister or any faithful friend search, try, discover, accuse and condemn these men, as rotten (though gilded) posts, as unsound, hollow-hearted wretches, their hearts will swell ⟨p. 37⟩like toads, and hiss like snakes, and bark like dogs against them that thus censure them, because they rob them of their God they served, their gain is gone.

One may trap these people thus: Follow them in their private houses, there is worldlinesse, passion, loosenes, and to their private chambers, there they ordinarily neglect or shuffle over duties to their private vaine thoughts. In this Tyring house you shall then see these stage players, their shop-windowes are shut, here no honesty is to be seene scarce, because their gaine, their respect comes not in at this door where none beholds them: Let either Minister or any faithfull friend search, try, discover, accuse and condemne these men, as rotten (though gilded) posts, as unsound, hollow-hearted wretches, their hearts will swell ⟨p. 37⟩like toads, and hisse like snakes, and bark like dogs against thē that thus censure them, because they rob them of their God they served, their gaine is gone.

2. The guilty self condemned sinner, that goes further than the Formalist, and contents himself with so much holiness as will quit him, and hence all the Heathen have had some Religion, because they had some Conscience to trouble them• This man, if he hath lived in foul sins,