A warning to back-sliders, or, A discovery for the recovery of fallen ones delivered…

You will say, here are store: I, here are Professors, but where is that that is professed? A man may find many that profess humility, but where is that humility that is professed? one may find many that profess holiness, but where shall one find the holiness that is professed? one may find many that profess heavenly-mindedness, but where shall one find the heavenly-mindedness that is professed? As he said, Give me that tells me the man is a man: so, give me that too that tells me a Saint is a Saint; give me that that ⟨p. 54⟩makes a Saint visible, a visible Saint for my Religion. In the last place,

You will say, here are store: I, here are Professors, but where is that that is professed? A man may find many that professe humility, but where is that humility that is professed? one may find many that professe holiness, but where shall one finde the holinesse that is professed? one may finde many that professe heavenly-mindednesse, but where shall one find the heavenly-mindedness that is professed? As he said, Give me that tells me the man is a man: so, give me that too that tells me a Saint is a Saint; give me that that ⟨p. 54⟩makes a Saint visible, a visible Saint for my Religion. In the last place,

X. Saints at the first coming in to Jesus Christ, were very choice of their company, and of their communion; they were not every bodies fellow, at least every body was not theirs. Saith Paul, I am crucified to this world, I and the world is crucified to me; I am even with it, (saith he) I pay it in its own coin; the meaning of it is this, the world thinks not the Saints worthy of their company, and the Saints think not the world worthy of theirs. At first they were very choice of their society, 'twas a vexation to their soul to live in Sodom, an hell to them to be with Mesek, and to have their habitation in the tents of Kedar; they would not be amongst the crowd, nor go with a multitude to do evil.