Religious societies. Proposals for the revival of dying religion, by well ordered societies for…

REPENTANCE has Mysteries in it. Hence People fancy, and harbour Conceits, that now and then, a, Lord, Forgive me! Or, A few sleight Convictions of what they have done when they have Sinned; Or the Reluctancies of an ⟨p. 9⟩Heart smiling of them, and roaring terrible things upon them, and compelling them to fall down on their Knees, and come to some Good Resolutions never to Offend in the like sort again; or some Terrors of the Law, which are like the Flashes of Hell-fire already singeing of them; — are the Repentance not to be Repented of.

HOLINESS has Mysteries in it. Hence People take and mistake, a few Formal Duties, or such Things as are the mere Bark or Shell of Religion; A Partial Obedience; or some notable Works done, but then vainly trusted in, (and so, but Splendid Sins after all!) ——To be the Obedience of Faith, and the Godliness which has the Promise.

HOLINESS has Mysteries in it. Hence People take and mistake, a few Formal Duties, or such Things as are the meer Bark or Shell of Religion; A Partial Obedience; or some notable Works done, but then vainly trusted in, (and so, but Splendid Sins after all!) ——To be the Obedience of Faith, and the Godliness which has the Promise.

MANY hear much about Faith, and Repentance, and Holiness, who never arrive to any other, than a Superficial Knowledge of these Things; They have no real Insight into them. They lie, Multitudes, multitudes, in the Valley of Perdition; And if the Enquiry be, Who has done this? The Reply must be that; Hosea IV. 6. My People are destroyed for the lack of Knowledge.