Gods husbandry

he that can weep at a Sermon, and be much moved at the reproofs of sin: he that lives unrebukeable to the worldward, and feareth not the face of any accuser: he that is counted zealous for the Lord, and is hot against divers disorders and abuses of the times: he whom almost all men take to be in the way to heaven, and that accounts himself even ⟨p. 29⟩sure of coming into heaven, and cannot be driven from thinking that he shall assuredly be saved, even this man, I say, such a man as this, that doth all these things, may be damned for all this; and unless he do more then all this, must needs be damned. Oh hard speech will some man say, and who can receive it I confess indeed, it is an hard speech unto the dissembler whom it concerneth, but not less true then hard; and therefore all ye that be but Hypocrites, will ye not stand amazed at the hearing of these tidings, and even tremble before the Lord, and before his Word? You may perhaps desire to be informed more particularly who the men be, that must be thus horribly & fearfully destroyed, even as a dream when a man awaketh, and that notwithstanding their doing of all the forenamed good things. I answer you out of that, that you have formerly heard, all that are conceited of themselves, and despise others, turning the knowledge and goodness they have, into matter of pride and lifting up themselves. All those that never blench at evil thoughts within, if their sins come no further then to thought, and even please themselves in wicked imaginations which they dare not act: all that are bold to sin in secret, and care not for it, securely and sorrowlesly committing the same things in the dark, which they would not for a world should be known unto the world. All that are bitter in crying out against the sins of other men, and in aggravating the wrongs and unkindnesses they have received: ⟨p. 30⟩but have little enough to say against themselves, and their own sins, and the injuries and unkindnesses that themselves have proffered unto God. All that hate their enemies in their hearts, and cannot abide to forgive and do good unto their wrongdoers: all that hear much, and it may be also repeat it with others, but like unclean beasts that chew not the cud, never care to muse and ponder upon it alone, and to turn it into a prayer, and apply it unto themselves:

he that can weepe at a Sermon, and bee much moued at the reproofes of sinne: hee that liues vnrebukeable to the worldward, and feareth not the face of any accuser: hee that is counted zealous for the Lord, and is hot against diuers disorders and abuses of the times: hee whom almost all men take to bee in the way to heauen, and that accounts himselfe euen