The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission

1. A great Profession will not do without this practical godliness. Some soar high in their Professions of, and pretences to greater strictness, and degrees of Grace and Holiness than others, who alas fall foully often on Earth, and always into Hell, for lack of this practical godliness. As some great Tradesmen, who living wholly upon their Credit with others, without any stock of their own, quickly break and miscarry. A Profession is but as the leaves of a Tree (a sign of fruit) not the fruit it self. There is a vast difference between leaves and fruit. Some think that Christ had not cursed the Fig-Tree, if it had been without leaves as well as without fruit: But when by its leaves it professed to have fruit,¹ and invited him to it in expectation thereof, and disappointed him, he ⟨p. 220⟩presently claps a Curse on it, that withers it at the very roots. The Pharisees were great Professors, made broad their Phylacteries, where-ever they went, would be known for persons extraordinarily pious and religious, yet how wicked was their state, Matth. 5.20. Except your Righteousness exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall never enter into the Kingdom of God; and how woeful is their Condition? Woe to you Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites, (ye live in Omissions) ye neglect the great things of the Law, Judgment, Mercy, and Faith, Matth. 23.23.

1. A great Profession will not do without this practical godliness. Some soar high in their Professions of, and pretences to greater strictness, and degrees of Grace and Holiness than others, who alas fall foully often on Earth, and always into Hell, for lack of this practical godliness. As some great Tradesmen, who living wholly upon their Credit with others, without any stock of their own, quickly break and miscarry. A Profession is but as the leaves of a Tree (a sign of fruit) not the fruit it self. There is a vast difference between leaves and fruit. Some think that Christ had not cursed the Fig-Tree, if it had been without leaves as well as without fruit: But when by its leaves it professed to have fruit,¹