The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. /…

I say nothing, but I can tell you how you may discern them: A child of the Devil doth not go invisible, but may be known, and the Apostle tells you, 1 Joh. 3.10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the Devil: Mark that, Whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. I observe three things in this Text: 1. That there are children of God, and children of the devil. 2. That a man may know them: The Text saith so plainly, they are not my own words; Consult I beseech you with the place, In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the Devil. 3. How a man shall know a child of the Devil: He that worketh not righteousness, and he that hateth his brother, is of the devil. He that worketh not righteousness; that is, he that is not willing and contented, constantly to take up a Christian course, to walk according to the rule of Gods word, to abstain from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, to live in all holiness of life and conversation, to study and endeavour to keep a good conscience in all things both towards God, and towards men: and he that loveth not his brother: That is, he that hateth holiness where he sees it, that hates a good man, and one that is sincere, whose colour riseth at such a one, where ever he meets him; who can brook a drunkard, or a swearer, or an adulterer; but cannot endure a righteous man, a holy man, one that makes conscience of his ways: If there be ⟨p. 181⟩any such in this Congregation, I desire to speak a word to them in the name of the Lord; Let them consider that what I speak is not my own, and I profess that what I say is not out of passion, or a desire to slander any; but the desire of my soul is, that they may come to the knowledge of the truth, that they may be saved.

I say nothing, but I can tell you how you may discern them: A child of the Devill doth not go invisible, but may be known, and the Apostle tels you, 1 Joh. 3.10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the Devill: Mark that, Whosoever doth not righteousnesse is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. I observe three things in this Text: 1. That there are children of God, and children of the devill. 2. That a man may know them: The Text saith so plainly, they are not my own words; Consult I beseech you with the place, In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the Devill. 3. How a man shall know a child of the Devill: He that worketh not righteousness, and he that hateth his brother, is of the devill. Hee that worketh not righteousnesse; that is, he that is not willing and contented, constantly to take up a Christian course, to walk according to the rule of Gods word, to abstain from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, to live in all holiness of life and conversation, to studie and indeavour to keep a good conscience in all things both towards God, and towards men: and he that loveth not his brother: That is, he that hateth holiness where he sees it, that hates a good man, and one that is sincere, whose colour riseth at such a one, where ever he meets him; who can brook a drunkard, or a swearer, or an adulterer; but cannot endure a righteous man, a holy man, one that makes conscience of his waies: If there be