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must be cut off, and plucked out, before you 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 inclinations 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 embrued in blood, and have them defiled with public land-sins, which procure land judgment! Ye take a liberty to pay cess, and fines and teinds 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 likewise perish." Remember this, ye who turn not to make up all Christian duties with you; ye think it enough ye babble over two or three words at night and at morn to yourselves, though you set not up the worship of God in your families, and if you do that, ye think that enough though you neither put to your hand to act with the Lord, nor sympathize with his afflicted people, nor embody yourselves in society with them, to cry for all the abominations of the land. O take heed, 'except you repent and amend, ye shall all likewise perish.'
Secondly, These come not unto Christ, who though 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 the best of you; but mark what he says of himself in the 7, 8, & 9th verses, 'But what things were gain to me; those I counted loss for Christ, yea
