Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy

Use […] Hence therefore let this truth move upon us, to persuade us, and to reclaim us from words to works; from profession to practise, from confession to amendment: we have begun a good work in confessing, but it it go no further the work is spoiled; add we therefore now to it, reformation, let us turn away from those sins we have drawn up so many protests against, and let us show a practical hatred of what we have verbally renounced.

Use 〈…〉 Hence therefore let this truth move upon us, to perswade us, and to reclaim us from words to works; from profession to practise, from confession to amendment: we have begun a good work in confessing, but it it go no further the work is spoiled; adde we therefore now to it, reformation, let us turn away from those sins we have drawn up so many protests against, and let us shew a practical hatred of what we have verbally renounced.

Doct. 4 The b•st•ou ward privileges in the world, if once they come to be •rusted in, are no better th•n lies; ver 4. trust not in lying words, the Temple, &c. i. e. they have as great and grand a delusion in them, and as surely deceive any that place their confidence upon them as any other deceit in the world whatsoever: they are no better shelter, nor will afford any greater security and safeguard to the soul then any other vain hiding place; and therefore, they that trust in them trust in falsehood; a lye is that which is spoken to deceive the creature: thus when men speak of their privileges, and rest on them, they deceive their own selves.

Doct. 4 The b•st•ou ward priviledges in the world, if once they come to be •rusted in, are no better th•n lyes; ver 4. trust not in lying words, the Temple, &c. i. e. they have as great and grand a delusion in them, and as surely deceive any that place their confidence upon them as any other deceit in the world whatsoever: they are no better shelter, nor will afford any greater security and safeguard to the soul then any other vain hiding place; and therefore, they that trust in them trust in falsehood; a lye is that which is spoken to deceive the creature: thus when men speak of their priviledges, and rest on them, they deceive their own selves.