Do you only defire [Your daily bread, and that in fubordination to the honour, and Kingdom, and will of God.] Or rather do you not play the Hypocrites in faying fo, when it is not [daily bread] that will content you; but plenty and -prosperity is sweeter to you then' holiness?

When you pray for [The forgiveness of your fins, as you forgive others you intimate that you are weary of your fins, and hate them, and would forfake them; and that you forgive all that have wronged. you, out of the fenfe of your own tranfgreffions, and of the love of Chrift: but is all this fo, or is it meer diffembling, when you for fake not your fin, nor are willing to forfake it, and when your consciences know that there be fome that you forgive not?

You pray against being led into temptation and yet you love it

and

and caft your felves into it. Into. tempting company, and tempting talk, and tempting employments : And for recreation, meat, drink, apparel,houses, attendants, eftate, reputation, and almost all things elfe, , you love and choofe that which is moft tempting.

You pray to be delivered from evil: when the evil at your pride, flefh pleafing, and worldlinefs, you fo love, that indeed you would not be delivered from them. What can you fay to excufe all this, from palpable Hypocrifie?

To conclude, you pretend to all thats neceffary to falvation, but have you that in reality which you pretend to?

1. You think your felves wife enough to be faved. But is it not folly that goes under the name of wifedom? When you should be converted and lead a holy life, you are wife enough to give reafons for

the

the contrary, and wife enough to confute the Preacher, and prove him a fool, instead of obeying the call of God. You are wife enough to prove the Phyfician to be igno rant, and to caft away the medicine that should heale you. And what if no body could deal with you in fubriky of argument, but you could fay that against the ne ceffary means of your own falvátion, that none can answer? when you die by your wisdom; and have difputed your felves out of the reach of mercy,will you not bewail it then as folly Is he wifer that being hungry eats his meat, or he that gives fuch reafons for his refufing it, and pleadeth so learnedly against eating and drinking, that. none can anfwer him? Is the condemned man wafer that makes friends for a pardon? or he that with unanswerable fubtilty reafoneth against it, till the ladder be turned?

turned? fuch is your vain and Seeming wisdom. You are not wife enough to be cured, but to give reasons why you should continue frek. In the iffue it will prove, that you were not wife enough to be faved, but notably wife to refift falvation, and plead your felves into hell.

-2. You pretend that you have a faving faith, when your hearts' refuse that falvation from fin, and that rule of Chrift which is the object of faith: and when you will not believe the doctrines, precepts or threatnings that crofs your own conceits; and when your belief of heaven will not carry your hearts from earth, nor work you to a holy heavenly

life.

3. You pretend to Repentance (as I faid before) while you hold faft the fin, and give not up your felves to God: when as if your

neighbour,

neighbour, or Mafter, or Husband fhould but beat one of you,and tell - you when he hath done that he repenteth, and do this as oft as you commit your willful fins, and fay you repent, I am confident you would not take it for true repentance. You repent, but will not confefs when it is to your difgrace, as long as you can hide your fin. You repent, but will not make reftitution or reparation of injuries to your power. You repent, but your heart rifeth against him that reproveth you. You repent, but you had rather keep your fins then leave them. Whats this but to deceive your own hearts, and to mock your felves with a feeming vain and mock-repentance ?

4. You pretend to love God above all, (as was before faid) - when you love not his Image waies or communion: but love that which he hateth', and ftill

prefer