Though those corruptions do not break out in any scandalous way, those thoughts are an evidence of a rotten heart Tit. 3.3. We our selves were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and enemy, hateful and hating one another. If a man allows himself, though he thinks he doth not, in malice or envy, he is an hypocrite; though his conscience disallows it, yet if his heart allows it he is no saint; if be does not hate and mortify those corrupt affections, he is no saint. The other way of living in internal sin is, to live in the omission of spiritual duties: Whether a man knows it or knows it not, it is an evidence of hypocrisy. Many men that make a fair show, do not believe in Jesus Christ: They have a persuasion of the truth of the gospel, they hope Christ will save them, they have had some joy in heating the gospel, but they do not believe in Christ; either they are carnally confident, or discouraged: This doth condemn them. He that believeth not, the wrath of God abideth on him, Joh. 3.36. He that is contentious and ⟨p. 115⟩obeys not the gospel, will be condemned, Rom. 2.8. So, if a man live in the neglect of love to God; if there be no hearty love to God in his profession, in his obedience, he is not godly: Though there be affection, yet if there be not hearty love, that will condemn him: That was the condemnation of the Jews, Joh. 5.42. I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. If men be zealous men, have tenderness of conscience, delight in sabbaths, but are destitute of love to God, they are hypocrites. So, if there be not a spirit of love to saints, 1 Cor. 13.23. If I speak with the tongue of men and angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, and a tinkling cymbal So, 1 Joh. 4.8. He that loveth not, knoweth not God.
Though those corruptions do not break out in any scandalous way, those thoughts are an evidence of a rotten heart Tit. 3.3. We our selves were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and enemy, hateful and hating one another. If a man allows himself, though he thinks he doth not, in malice or envy, he is an hypocrite; though his conscience disallows it, yet if his heart allows it he is no saint; if be does not hate and mortify those corrupt affections, he is no saint. The other way of living in internal sin is, to live in the omission of spiritual duties: Whether a man knows it or knows it not, it is an evidence of hypocrisy. Many men that make a fair shew, do not believe in Jesus Christ: They have a perswasion of the truth of the gospel, they hope Christ will save them, they have had some joy in heating the gospel, but they do not believe in Christ; either they are carnally confident, or discouraged: This doth condemn them. He that believeth not, the wrath of God abideth on him, Joh. 3.36. He that is contentious and ⟨p. 115⟩obeys not the gospel, will be condemned, Rom. 2.8. So, if a man live in the neglect of love to God; if there be no hearty love to God in his profession, in his obedience, he is not godly: Though there be affection, yet if there be not hearty love, that will condemn him: That was the condemnation of the Jews, Joh. 5.42. I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. If men be zealous men, have tenderness of conscience, delight in sabbaths, but are destitute of love to God, they are hypocrites. So, if there be not a spirit of love to saints, 1 Cor. 13.23. If I speak with the tongue of men and angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, and a tinkling cymbal So, 1 Joh. 4.8. He that loveth not, knoweth not God.
