Stimulator. Or, The case of a soul walking in darkness awfully & suitably considered.…

I. There is the Darkness of a False Religion, which makes a very Unhappy Condition for Multitudes in the World; Multitudes who walk in Darkness, & Know not whither they are going. Man is, Animal Religiosum, a creature naturally disposed unto Religion; He must lay aside his Nature, if he be not of some Religion. But man has by his Fall from GOD, so Enfeebled, yea, so Corrupted & Poisoned his mind that his Understanding being darkened, a False Religion is now most agreeable unto him. Having also resigned himself up unto the Dominion of those Evil Spirits, which are by the wrath of GOD now become the Rulers of the Darkness of this World, these conspire as much as may be by their Devices to hold him in the chains of a False Religion. Tis now come to pass; Darkness covers the Earth, and Gross Darkness the People. The most of Mankind are by the Unsearchable Judgments of GOD, now so abandoned, that they are in the Unhappy Condition of the Jews, who sought unto Egypt for the Succours which were to be found from GOD alone; Jer. XIII. 16. Your Feet Stumble on the Dark Mountains, & when ye look for light, it is turned into the Shadow of Death, and made a Gross Darkness The only True Religion, in which alone Man can Return unto GOD, it is but a little part of Mankind, that is Enlightened with it. Our Gospel is hid from the most ⟨p. 6⟩of Men; & so they are still Walking in Darkness. They are always in the Dark▪ what to do that GOD may be Pleased with them; in the Dark, about the Methods of paying unto GOD an Acceptable Service. They do not know the Way of peace, nor know the Way to the City of GOD. In the Greatness of their Folly they Wander from the Way of Understanding. They are as much in the Dark, whether what they do be at all pleasing to GOD: in the Dark, what will be the Issue of all their Service. They have on Reasonable Expectations of a Joyful Harvest, for their Devotions. All is cloudy with them; all Dubious They have no clear Knowledge of those things which to know is Life Eternal; And by the Look of it, they are Destroyed; How Lamentably, How Deplorably! As they Live, so they Die, All in the Dark. In this Unhappy Condition, alas, the most of Men are perishing.

I. There is the Darkness of a False Religion, which makes a very Unhappy Condition for Multitudes in the World; Multitudes who walk in Darkness, & Know not whither they are going. Man is, Animal Religiosum, a creature naturally disposed unto Religion; He must lay aside his Nature, if he be not of some Religion. But man has by his Fall from GOD, so Enfeebled, yea, so Corrupted & Poisoned his mind that his Understanding being darkened, a False Religion is now most agreeable unto him. Having also resigned himself up unto the Dominion of those Evil Spirits, which are by the wrath of GOD now become the Rulers of the Darkness of this World, these conspire as much as may be by their Devices to hold him in the chains of a False Religion. Tis now come to pass; Darkness covers the Earth, and Gross Darkness the People. The most of Mankind are by the Unsearchable Judgments of GOD, now so abandoned, that they are in the Ʋnhappy Condition of the Jews, who sought unto Egypt for the Succours which were to be found from GOD alone;