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This is the Object of your Sin▪

Again, Look upon the Vows that you break by this O•••ion. God knows whether your Sea-storm-Vows, and your Sick-bed Vows, have not been that you will study to conform unto the whole known Will of God? Behold, you now pass by a Considerable Thing, ⟨p. 68⟩whereof it may be said, This is the Will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. But your baptismal Vows are most certainly and wretchedly broken by this Impiety of yours. The baptised are under bonds, to do all things whatsoever the Lord Jesus has Commanded And is not This one of Those Things? Do not think now to mock the God of Heaven, by something that Looks like a Renewal of your baptismal Covenant, without seeking the Supper of the Lord. If you content yourselves to hear the Form of a Covenant Recited unto you, and reply a Formal, Yes, unto it, as many do that they may have their children baptised without Industrious, Assiduous, and uneasy Labours to be sound among Worthy Communicants at the Table of the Lord; I am to tell you, That you do but Mock the Great God in what you do; and verily, He will not be Mocked. Every time that you contentedly go from the Holy Supper, there may be fixed upon you that Brand, in Isa 24.5. They have broken the Everlasting Covenant. You do what you can, that the Waters of baptism should be turned into Rivers of Brimstone for the Eternal Vexation of your souls! Tis a perfidious thing thus to be an Emansor from the Camp of the Lord; Oh come and take thy Station there!

Again, Look upon the Vowes that you break by this O•••ion. God knowes whether your Sea-storm-Vowes, and your Sick-bed Vowes, have not been that you will study to conform unto the whole known Will of God? Behold, you now pass by a Considerable Thing, ⟨p. 68⟩whereof it may be said, This is the Will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. But your baptismal Vowes are most certainly and wretchedly broken by this Impiety of yours. The baptised are under bonds, to do all things whatsoever the Lord Jesus has Commanded And is not This one of Those Things? Do not think now to mock the God of Heaven, by something that Looks like a Renewal of your baptismal Covenant, without seeking the Supper of the Lord. If you content yourselves to hear the Form of a Covenant Recited unto you, and reply a Formal, Yes, unto it, as many do that they may have their children baptised without Industrious, Assiduous, and uneasy Labours to be sound among Worthy Communicants at the Table of the Lord; I am to tell you, That you do but Mock the Great God in what you do; and verily, He will not be Mocked. Every time that you contentedly go from the Holy Supper, there may be fixed upon you that Brand, in Isa 24.5. They have broken the Evrlasting Covenant. You do what you can, that the Waters of baptism should be turn'd into Rivers of Brimstone for the Eternal Vexation of your souls! Tis a perfidious thing thus to be an Emansor from the Camp of the Lord; Oh come and take thy Station there!