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they can be year and day, nay many years, without it and never miss it, not be troubled with the want of it: Alas! It is not seriousness to be at the Communion, without this, which will profit you; and even ye that are not admitted to the Communion, are called to this. A Second Sort are such, as are indifferent in all religious concerns; they care not for the Communion, and would not be very desirous of it, if it were not a shame to them, and some reflection on them to be debarred from it; they think, that whatever in Religion goeth beyond their Job, is but preciseness, Niceness, Vanity, Conceit and Fancy; such never knew what it was to be troubled with doubting or Tentations about their Souls state, or the truth and reality of their Grace, nor what it was to be under any exercise of Conscience on the account of much sin and Guilt; nay they are glad and can boast themselves that they were never under any such serious exercise. A Third Sort is of such, who are very civil in their carriage, but they have no more; & if Heaven may be bad with Ceremonies & fair fashions, they will be in it as soon as any; but they cannot endure to be at pains beyond their ordinary, to take hold of it, to do violence to there own negligence, to take the Kingdom of Heaven by force, nor in the least to amend their Pace, & to be Serious, come of it what may: These are a dangerous company, they have ⟨p. 232⟩Communicated many years, and were never debarred, and so, think that all is well with them; and that they may fit still and be at peace: I shall only say to such that, that was not Davids way, nor Pauls way, not th• way of any of the Saints, nor the way that Christ Commended to his hearers: and I trow, he will not chalk ou• another way to you; nor take you to Heaven in a wa• by your selves, or in a way of your own: O be not deceived, for God will not be mocked. A Fourth So• are those who have been ordering and dispatching thei• external businesses, so as they may win to the Communion without distraction by them; but they hav• taken little or no pains at all to put their hearts in order; little or no time in Secret betwixt God and them, to examine and try, whether matters, as to their Soul• state and frame, be right, clear and distinct; It's th alone direction that the Apostle gives,