others will remember what profession they made, and that, they went with some kind of gladness in the company of Gods people, unto his House and Ordinances, and heard the Word, and received some impressions thereof; yea obtained some kind of graces under its influence; that they had a kind of righteousness, repentance, faith, desires, love, joy, hope, that they had some tastes of the heavenly gift, and the powers of the World to come, and thought themselves as fair for Heaven as the best and who ever missed, that they should not miss of glory: but O the confusion and vexation, which will be upon the spirits of these Persons when the Lord Jesus shall disown them, and shut them out of his Kingdom; O what tearings of heart will they have, when they perceive that they were mistaken, and find themselves disappointed of the happiness which they had such hopes of, and confident expectations to obtain: when they find that their silver was but dross, and their graces were counterfeit, and not of the right stamp, that they had not the Image and Superscription of Christ upon them; when they remember that they had a Righteousness, but it was like the morning Cloud, which the wind of affliction or temptation had driven away; that they had some repentance, but it was legal, not Evangelical; that the tears they ••ad sometimes shed for sin, were like the early dew, which the bright Sun of prosperity did quickly dry up; that they had a faith, but it was a temporary faith, which wanted deep rooting in the heart and whatever flourishing fruit it quickly sent forth, yet the hot Sun of persecution did wither it, that it came to nothing when they were put upon the Trial; that they had desires after Christ, and the favour of God and spiritual things; but they were but faint velleities, they were like the untimely birth of a Woman, which never ⟨p. 103⟩came to any perfection; that they had love to God in show, or it may be at sometime a passionate glow of heart under an Ordinance, which was not enkindled by a spark falling down from Heaven upon them, blown up by the spirit of God; but a false or a more inferior •ire, which arose from a sympathy with Ministers or other Christians in the more inferior workings and expressions of their love, which in the sincere arose from the right principle;
others will remember what profession they made, and that, they went with some kind of gladness in the company of Gods people, unto his House and Ordinances, and heard the Word, and received some impressions thereof; yea obtained some kind of graces under its influence; that they had a kind of righteousness, repentance, faith, desires, love, joy, hope, that they had some tastes of the heavenly gift, and the powers of the World to come, and thought themselves as fair for Heaven as the best and who ever missed, that they should not miss of glory: but O the confusion and vexation, which will be upon the spirits of these Persons when the Lord Jesus shall disown them, and shut them out of his Kingdom; O what tearings of heart will they have, when they perceive that they were mistaken, and find themselves disappointed of the happiness which they had such hopes of, and confident expectations to obtain: when they find that their silver was but dross, and their graces were counterfeit, and not of the right stamp, that they had not the Image and Superscription of Christ upon them; when they remember that they had a Righteousness, but it was like the morning Cloud, which the wind of affliction or temptation had driven away; that they had some repentance, but it was legal, not Evangelical; that the teares they ••ad sometimes shed for sin, were like the early dew, which the bright Sun of prosperity did quickly dry up; that they had a faith, but it was a temporary faith, which wanted deep rooting in the heart and whatever flourishing fruit it quickly sent forth, yet the hot Sun of persecution did wither it, that it came to nothing when they were put upon the Trial; that they had desires after Christ, and the favour of God and spiritual things; but they were but faint velleities, they were like the untimely birth of a Woman, which never ⟨p. 103⟩came to any perfection; that they had love to God in show, or it may be at sometime a passionate glow of heart under an Orninance, which was not enkindled by a spark falling down from Heaven upon them, blown up by the spirit of God; but a false or a more inferiour •ire, which arose from a sympathy with Ministers or other Christians in the more inferiour workings and expressions of their love, which in the sincere arose from the right principle;
