this ye who have any predominate, whose head ye clap; your right hand and your right eye sine must be cut off, and plucked out, before ye can enter into the kingdom of heaven: I say, if ye entertain any predominate, it speaks out this, That ye would as well entertain all sins, if your inclination were as bent upon them, and that ye do not leave them, as they are hateful to God, but only, as they are not so delightsome or hurtful unto you. O! take heed, except ye repent and amend, ‘ye shall all likewise perish’ Remember this ye moral civilians, who are not chargeable with gross profanity in your private walk, yet have your hands imbrued in blood, and have them defiled with public land sins, which procure land-judgments: ye take a liberty to pay cess, and fines, and tiends to Baal’s priests, and do many other things to strengthen the enemies of our Lord, and condemn his cause, I say, take heed to yourselves, ‘except ye repent and amend, ye shall all like wise perish,’ Remember this, ye who turn not to take up all Christian duties with you; ye think it enough, ye babble over two or three words at night and at morn to yourselves, tho’ you set not up the worship of God in your families, and if ye do that, ye think that enough, though ye neither put to your hand so act with the Lord, nor sympathize with his afflicted people, nor imbody yourselves in society with them, to cry for all the abominations of the land. O take heed, ‘except ye repent and amend, ye shall all likewise perish.’
Secondly, These come not unto Christ, who, tho’ they may come a great length, not to be chargeable by man, neither with omission nor commission, yet rest there; all that will not take them to heaven. Paul, before his conversion, he reports of himself, Phil, iii. 6. ‘was touching the righteousness, which is in the law blameless.’ He was as trim a legalist as
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