The sinfulness of worshipping God with men's institutions as it was delivered in a…

USE III.

Be we then Exhorted to avoid this sin, so far as there may have bin any Guilt contracted, if not willingly and knowingly, yet if ignorantly and through neglect, let us repent of and turn from it, and let us set our selves more strenuously against it for the time forward: is it a sin so great? let not us then think it little, or our selves to be out of the danger of falling into it; and to move us to be the more careful in our endeavours against it, let us consider,

1. There are no small Temptations to it from within, and from without: the world and your own corrupt hearts have a great deal to say and plead, which is suited to the flesh, to insinuate into you unto a compliance with such things: these things are many of them adapted to the carnal wisdom of men; and are easily clothed with divers religious ⟨p. 27⟩pretences, and how many ways they are seemingly advantageous to the promoting of Piety; these all must be withstood, if you will not be baffled into this sin: besides there are no small arguments, from the lawfulness of the things in themselves, and scandal apt to arise from a non compliance with them.

1. There are no small Temptations to it from within, and from without: the world and your own corrupt hearts have a great deal to say and plead, which is suited to the flesh, to insinuate into you unto a compliance with such things: these things are many of them adapted to the carnal wisdom of men; and are easily cloathed with divers religious