that He is our Righteousness not only giveth Righteousness but He is our Righteousness by Imputation The Doctrine of Imputation of Christ's Righteousness though W. Pen in his Serious Apology pag. 148. blasphemously calls it A Doctrine of Devils is very rational to them that are taught of God 1. If the Guilt of Adam's first Transgression was ours by Imputation which cannot be denied from Rom. 5.12 In whom all have finned If that first Sin so many thousand Years since why not the Righteousness of Christ sixteen hundred Years since If that to all his Seed and Children why not this to Christ's Seed and Children 2. If Christ Jesus had the Guilt of Sin really charged upon him and imputed when as He had no Sin inherent what else is to be understood by that 2 Cor. 5. ult He was made Sin If as some would have it only the punishment of Sin in being offered and sacrificed Punishment hath always respect to Sin otherwise it is not poena but must change its Name then the Guilt of the Sin of his People must be imputed to him And this was plainly sigured in the Sacrifices under the Law when all the Sins of Israel were confessed over the Heads of the Beasts and so offered and slain If this be true why not then Christ's Righteousness to become ours the same way viz. by Imputation 3. Was not Christ the Second Adam and so a common Head and Representative Now what such an one doth is as much as if they did it that are represented Christ was a Surety Heb. 7.22 Why then his Paiment is ours what he had did and suffered was not so much for Himself as for his Members Fifthly There is much difference betwixt this Righteousness of Christ and that which the Apostle Paul calls his own in Phil. 3.9 in which he saith he would not be found in the Day of Judgment to be justified by in the sight of God There be makes a plain difference betwixt those two Righteousnesses viz. his own which he calls the Righteousness of the Law and that which is through the Faith of Christ which he calls the Righteousness of God 1. Our own Righteousness is within us inhering in our Souls It consists in those Gifts and Vertues that the Spirit of God works in our Minds and we express these outwardly in the observation of the Moral Law in our walkings amongst Men Now that this is properly our own Righteousness though it is effected by the Spirit in us 1. See how the Scripture speaks of it Faith is called your Faith and Love is called your Love Col. 1.4 In Deut. 6.25 It shall be our Righteousness if we keep his Commandments Job 27.6 My Righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go Matth. 5.20 Except your Righteousness exceed c. 2. Our Souls are the Subjects of this Righteousness it is really in our Minds therefore ours 3. We put forth the Actions wherein this Righteousness consists both Internal and External Is it not we that believe and we that repent though the Spirit works Faith in us God is said to work in us to will Phil. 2. yet we will to do yet we act and we perform Are not we said to pray though the Spirit works Prayer in our hearts 4. Was not Adam's grace which was concreated with him properly his own Yes surely Then this is our own Righteousness though wrought in us by the Spirit But that Righteousness of Faith by which we are justified is wholly without us in the Person of Christ It was wrought out Six Hundred Years since And not one Act either of our Bodies or Minds contributes any thing to it our Faith is no part of it only by Faith we receive and view and apprehend that which justifies us And whereas it is said Abraham believed and it was accounted to him for Righteousness Not the Action of bebelieving but that which he rested upon by Faith justified and was his Righteousness One then is Christ's personal Obedience the other is our personal Obedience one that which Christ wrought the other that which we work one is given of God from Heaven and rests upon Faith the other is here upon Earth by Works Our Righteousness is but the Righteousness of meer Man the other the Righteousness of Him that was God as well as Man otherwise we ought not to trust unto it for Cursed is every one that trusteth in the Arm of Flesh One is perfect and compleat the other is faulty imperfect incompleat as to degree 6. This Righteousness thus opened is marvellously well-pleasing to the Father Mat. 3. This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased This is spoke of Christ as Mediator representing all his People the Father looks through Him at all his Members and is well-pleased with them The Father's Love from Christ the Son is diffused to all the Elect this Voice came for our sakes Ephes 5.2 An Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling Savour The Father's Heart is at rest in this it perfumes all the Church with its Odour 2 Cor. 5. ult it is called the Righteousness of God i. e. the Righteousness which he approves highly of because the Righteousness which he in his infinite Wisdom contrived and the Righteousness of his own Son that is of the same Nature with the Father in this our Persons are accepted Ephes 1.6 We are accepted in the Beloved and our Prayers and Works 1 Pet. 2.5 Spiritual Sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ Heb. 11.4 By Faith Abel offered a more acceptable Sacrifice and without this it 's not possible to please God This Righteousness we have to offer to Sinners in the preaching of the Gospel and by preaching it thus we do not make void but establish the Law We see by this how we are saved by the Law viz. Christ keeping it for us by a Covenant of Works Christ being made under the Law He fulfilled it Here is a sweet Harmony between Law and Gospel now they kiss each other in Christ so far from being one against the other The poor heavy laden Soul will thankfully receive this Righteousness and rejoice and glory in it the Sick this Cordial the starved Prodigal this which is Bread indeed But the proud Pharisee the Self-righteous One the rich Justiciary he that is whole The Quaker goes about to make his own Righteousness to stand and will not submit to this but despiseth it and what will be the issue but to wonder and perish Give me leave to say That want of inculcating these things in our Ministry hath been the cause that so many have been led away with the Error of the Quakers and that Professors are not out of danger till they be made more skilful in the Word of Righteousness Who sees not by reading these following Lines but this young Lad may now engage without any peril any Quaker in England in Discourse I likewise humbly entreat that our Brethren would use
The Quaker Converted OR The Experimental Knowledg of Jesus Christ Crucisied In opposition to the Principles of the Quakers declared In a Narrative of the Conversion of one in Hartfordshire who was for some Years of their Faith and Principle and inclined unto them The manner how he was wrought off from them by the Lord. And several dealings of Christ with his Spirit afterwards With some things annexed for detection of their Errors and Delusions and prevention of the growth thereof Written by Himself in his own Words and Phrases Likewise an Epistle Dedicatory by W. HAWORTH Minister of the Gospel at Hartford John 5.39 Search the Scriptures They are they which testify of me Mat. 24.24 For there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shew great Signs and Wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect. John 4.22 Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship for Salvation is of the Jews Acts. 2.30 Therefore David being a Prophet and knowing that God bad sworn with an Oath to him that of the Fruit of his Loins according to the Flesh he would raise up Christ to sit on his Throne 31. Spake of the Resurrection of Christ 30. Therefore let all the House of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Ch. 5.31 Him hath God exalted with his right Hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give Repentance to Israel and forgiveness of Sins John 15.26 When the Comforter is come be shall testify of me Ch. 16.14 He shall glorify me for be shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you 1 Joh. 4.2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh is of God Heb. 9.28 Christ was once offered to bear the Sins of many Ch. 10. 12. This MAN after he had offered one Sacrifice for Sins for ever sat down on the right Hand of God Act 13.39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses 〈◊〉 3.28 Therefore we conclude that a Man is justified by Faith without the Deeds of the Law Read likewise Rom. 10.4 Ch. 4.25 2 Cor. 5.21.1 Cor. 1.30 Act. 23.48 London Printed for J. Robinson at the Golden-Lion in Paul's Church-Yard 1690. The Epistle Dedicatory To the Church of Christ at Hartford Well-beloved in the Lord. IN this Relation which follows you may see some of the Quakers rotten Opinions You may remember how joyful we were when the Lord cast this Young-man unexpectedly amongst us how our hearts were refreshed in the speaking forth of these ensuing things And whereas we had mourned that some had gone out from our Meetings to them in this one instance the Lord hath abundantly made it up to us let Christ have the glory None of those that went out from us were properly of us had received the Gospel that we believe No it 's not possible for any to receive it truly and forsake it But this young Man was fully of their Way Spirit Faith and Principle as any may see by reading this little Book Though he made not such an open Profession as others of them yet went farther than most of them towards that which they call Perfection yea he was as Luther said of himself before his Conversion an honest Monk so an honest Quaker true to his perswasion I have thought it meet by the advice of my worthy Brethren in the Ministry to expose this Narrative to the open view although the meanness of the Person 's Education and the little time he hath had for proficiency in the knowledg of the Gospel might discourage in this matter on the one hand yet on the other hand the profit that we hope may be reaped through the Lord's Blessing by many especially at Hartford in the reading of it both as to the reducing some from them and preventing some staggering ones confirming also others in the Faith of the Gospel hath prevailed with me to print it And indeed Instances of this nature are so famous and rare VIZ. For any to be recovered from this Betwitching and this Instance none of the least that I could in Conscience do no other This withal being an experience that the Lord in rich Mercy gave him I hope will take the deeper impression upon the Minds of People For my own part I see such clear distinct sound Gospel knowledg in it that I dare say confidently it is no other than the Finger the eminent Finger of God upon his dear elect Child And the more remarkable is it in that be was a stranger to us all conversed with none of us most of these things were taught him alone in the reading of the Scriptures Flesh and Blood hath not revealed this to thee may we truly say but our Father which is in Heaven the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the Mystery of the Father and the Son hath been upon him O that every one of you my dear Brethren and every one in Hartford had the knowledg of Christ thus distinctly formed in you till which thing be the Soul of him to whom Christ hath committed you as his charge shall travail in birth and be in pain Blessing the Lord that his poor Labours have not altogether been in vain as to this matter O that it might please Christ to direct my faithful Brethren in the Ministry in their respective places where they are cast in the Countreys to open and insist more on the great New-Testament fundamental Truths in the Blood of Christ My daily Prayer to Christ is that we all may he made able Ministers of the New-Testament We have but Law and Gospel to preach let us keep them distinctly in their places the Law for the knowledg and conviction of Sin yea of first evil Motions to be sin The Law is spiritual Rom. 7. and requires perfect and perpetual Obedience of every one that will be justified by it and admits of no Repentance at all in case of any failure Now the Law is weak through the flesh Rom. 8. Man is breaking it every moment by his crooked thoughts this would let a Man see his Sins to be mountanous and innumerable and so bring down every high thought and lay him low giving him to see the need of the Righteousness of another not being able to answer the requirements of the Law thus the Law is our Schoolmaster to Christ Then the Gospel the Balm of the Doctrine of the free Justification of a Sinner in the Blood of Christ for the Wound this Oile to be poured into the Gashes of Conscience how would it Heal Settle Confirm Comfort and the Soul thus finding a Saviour and Sweetness in Christ this would be as new Wine and be would soon discern all poisonous drinks Whoever bath tasted that the Lord is Gracious never takes up with the Quakers Christ
more diligence and pains in going up and down the dark Countries taking Examples from these Foxes who with unwearied travel compass Sea and Land spoiling the Vines that have tender Grapes many a young Lamb is torn by them My Brethren Let us be greatly encouraged in this Instance waiting upon the same Spirit in reducing others to the Faith in the same manner And let me engage you Night and Day to pray to Christ for the poor Town of Hartford which now for a long time hath a been a Nest of Error where Satan hath had his Seat that now having begun to fall he might fall as Lightning from Heaven It 's matter of Grief to us as you kuow that many in the Town that made a fair shew once have turned their Backs upon us and sunk into Formality discouraging of us all they can The Lord give them Repentance unto Life Others the same in Faith with us through Childishness make a Schism in smaller matters Controversial but most of all that these Seducers have caught so many simple Hearts in their Nets and keep them in perfect Popish Slavery and Bondage O let your Cry go up to Heaven for them some of his Elect peradventure may be among them My Bowels my Bowels for that dark divided Town of Hartford O cry and pray That as He hath now in Mercy built us a Tabernacle there the residue of the People might seek after the Lord and the Quakers be undeceived As for you my Brethren let me exhort you to stedsastness in the Faith you have received and yet more Zeal and Boldness for the Truth We have to do with a very impudent Enemy yet remember and believe it Stronger is he that is with us than those that are against us O let not those poor deluded Ones that have trod under-foot the Blood of Christ and so left themselves no more Sacrifice for Sin to trust unto let them not out-strip you in their Zeal they have but not according to knowledg And be you not afraid of them tho you be but a very little Flock and they swarm as Locusts about you As High as Heaven is above the Earth so far is that Spirit of the Faith of Jesus in you above the Spirit of Antichrist that is in them And yet a little while and Christ shall bruise Satan under your Feet Amen Hold on your way grow stronger and stronger quit your selves like Men walk in Wisdom and in Love keep the Unity of the Spirit abound yet more and more in all Judgment and Experience Jesus Christ is amongst us as we all can witness in his Institutions that are so much despised by this dark People He walketh among the Golden Candlesticks We see a Glory in a crucified Jesus though they see no Beauty or Comeliness in Him for which they should desire Him We eat his Flesh and drink his Blood He dwelleth in us and we in Him We have both Christ within and without we have both Word and Spirit and so we have the better of them that divide these Let us with one Shoulder carry on Christ's Interest in that place and Christ will add to us such as shall be saved and he will build us up and finish that good Work that He hath begun among us and he will throw all Babels down to the Ground and not leave one Stone upon another There begins to be a Confusion amongst them already wait a while Dagon will fall before the Ark. I testify from the Lord having tried this People many a time and in the Light of the Spirit of Christ to my utmost being willing to receive any Truth from any hand that the Quakers Spirit is A Spirit of Delusion and their Doctrine is Antichristian in diametrical opposition to the Doctrine delivered by the Apostles of Jesus Christ I testify in the Lord and I have with me herein the concurrence of many ten thousand faithful Ones in the Land That if ever Satan transform'd himself into an Angel of Light it is in this People coming forth with such a fair pretence of strict Mortisication and Self-denial speaking of Light Spirit and Power therefore let all rake head and beware of them O how dreadful to deny the Manhood of Christ the Holy Scriptures save only what they think serves their turns to be Saviours to themselves to say Christ came and died in vain and to no purpose c. which necessarily follows upon their Doctrine My Soul weeps in secret to remember what a dumpish dark sowr Pharisaical confused slavish Spirit we have found some in whom they have lately caught and yet withal infinitely proud and self conceited the Lord have Mercy upon them I now recommend these following Lines to you keep them by you as a Treasure they are rich Spoils obtained in a Spiritual Warfare and dedicated to you a Temple of the Lord. In this you have the Doctrines which I who am the least have been preaching to you taught me by the Holy Ghost through manifold Tossings Trials Temptations Desertions Sadnesses Buffettings wherewithal I have been exercised these Fifteen Years the Lord is my Witness And I am willing and ready through the Grace of Christ to seal them with my Blood against all Adversaries whatsoever It comforts me that I can say I have preached none other things than what is written by the Prophets and Apostles and how pleasant as here you see when the Spirit of Truth in one ecchoes to the Spirit it self in another It is the self-same Spirit that worketh these things in us and for us all 1 Cor. 12. In this you have 1. the Spirituality of the Law of God spoken of 2. Our Weakness to keep the Law 3. God's insinite Wisdom and Goodness to provide a Surety in our room 4. Christ's great Love in undertaking 5. Man's great blindness by Nature cannot see this of himself 6. His backwardness to receive this Righteousness till he be brought to utter distress as the Prodigal was 7. His proneness to be his own Saviour 8. God's distinguishing Love and Grace in enlightning his and revealing Truth to them by his Spirit drawing of them 9. The blessed Fruits of Faith viz. Peace and Joy and Love to Christ 10. The ineffectualness of any other thing but Faith on Christ to bring the Soul to rest 11. How the Light within every One and Obedience thereunto will not do it 12. You may see herein the benefit of reading the Holy Scriptures 13. You may see that the Doctrine of Free Grace is not a Doctrine tending to Licentiousness but Holiness 14. Yet it excludes all manner of Works in the point of Justification 15. Tho Compleatness of Justification viz. from all Sin These with more that might be enumerated And now I will boldly say The Gates of Hell Power and Policy thereof shall never prevail against these Truths Notwithstanding the rage and subtilty of Adversaries we will say Tho an Host encamp against the Church Isa 37.22 The Virgin Daughter
lingering Desires to Evil that dwelt in me which would have led me to Evil which Desires I could not be delivered from any manner of Way which was the Cause of my Grief and Sorrow some considerable time until the Lord opened mine Eyes and shewed me Salvation by a Person wholly without me which Person is Jesus Christ whose Righteousness being imputed unto me and accounted as mine own that Righteousness being every way compleat he having fulfilled the Law of God in every respect by submitting unto this and accepting of this as my own I had Peace of Conscience which no otherways I could attain to Now by the light which every Man hath saw I no Beauty in this But by a Light which every Man hath not did I see a Beauty in this From whence I may conclude what that Light which every Man hath is for every Man in Reason seeth not a Beauty in this Righteousness Quest Had I not Joy and Peace and Quietness in my Spirit when I was obedient to that Light in me which reproved me for Sin And doth not the Scripture say The Kingdom of God is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost Wherein do they differ then Answ I had a Joy and a Peace and a Comfort in both states But the Joy of the first was not so great as the Joy of the Second For as Israel was in Egypt under hard tasks Exod. 5. And so long as they fulfilled their Tasks doubtless they had Joy and Peace and Quiet which when they did not fulfil they were beaten But doubtless they had more Joy and Peace when they were brought into Canaan where the Tasks were not laid upon them So was it with me So long as I did obey that which did reprove me for Sin I had peace and quiet judging my Condition happy But I found a greater Joy and Peace when I saw Salvation by the Righteousness of Christ without me being a more compleat and surer Righteousness than that wrought in me being hereby delivered from Fear of Miscarriages to the loss of my Salvation Quest Was there not a Power when I obeyed the Light reproving me for Sin which did deliver me from sinning and gave me Strength to do that which was good and right and just before God and Man and would carry me through Sufferings for it with Peace and Comfort if I submitted unto it according to that passage To as many as received him to them gave he Power to become the Sons of God Answ Yes There was a Power which did deliver me from sinning outwardly or doing any thing to wrong my Neighbour or telling Lies but choosed rather to suffer anger than to do it whereas if I had lied I might have been free from it it bore me up when I was hissed at for what I did to my Face saying These are the things which I must look for it was the portion of Christ when He walked upon the Earth and I must not wonder at it the Scriptuee saith it For it is enough for a Servant to be equal with his Lord But notwithstanding I met with a time when I could not have Peace of Conscience by that Power within me but by the powerful Work of God without me in preparing a Body which was perfectly holy to die for me to bear my Sins in my place in my room to free me from the Curse of the Law imputing his Righteousness unto me To as many as receive this gave he Power to become the Sons of God heing manifest to me in the Spirit at that time I mentioned before working Faith in me which Faith engageth to serve the Lord By this Faith I had Peace of Conscience this was the Power of God unto Salvation to my Soul according as it is written The Preaching of the Cross is to them that perish Foolishness but to them which are saved it is the Power of God 1 Cor. 1.18 Quest Do I despise that Light Knowledg or Conscience which reproveth Man for Sin in him and judg it not to be obeyed Answ No I believe it is the Duty of every one to walk in the Commandments of the Law of God and to keep a Conscience void of Offence according as it is written Holding Faith in a pure Conscience hoping to be found in the same my self Quest For what Ends do I desire to be found in Obedience to this Light Answ Because it is my Duty to God Not for Life but from a Principle of Life not for Salvation but because I have Salvation through Faith in Christ not that my Peace might be made but because my Peace is made already not that I might get into the Love of God but because I am in the Love of God through Faith in Christ who gave himself a Ransom to redeem me from the Curse of the Law He being made a Curse for me Friends To whom these few Lines may be presented written by the Hand of him who is Weak in Knowledg and of low Degree having done this at the request of my worthy Friends who thought it might be of use to those which might be in the like Trouble as I have been After the viewing of this many Censures do I expect perhaps it may be said by most I was no such Person as I have here exprest my self to be which if it be I matter not God knoweth the things I have been led through my Conscience also bearing me Witness to the things I have written and therefore leave it to the Souls in Christ to judg Perhaps it may be further said of me That I have written some things herein out of Envy and Malice To which I answer I have not written any thing herein out of Envy or Malice but for the relief of those that are in trouble if the Lord please to make it instrumental by his Spirit for that end Perhaps it may be said I could not attain to Joy and Peace and Comfort by Obedience to the Light reproving me for Sin seeing I walked not in all things as the Quakers did To which I answer I have seen one of them do that which another of them had not Freedom to do yet I believe he that did it had Peace in what he did because he saw no Evil in it why might not I have Peace and Joy in my Spirit though I did not walk in every Point as they did seeing I did that which I believed was good in the sight of God when I durst not do that which some of them did Perhaps it may be said This is nothing but an invented Story of mine own having picked up bere and there a word by Head-knowledg seeing I was not in open Profession with them which expect Salvation by Obedience to the Light in them To which I say Though I was not in open Profession with them yet was I of the same Faith and fought my Salvation the same way And as to taking hold of Words or inventing Stories I
leave it to those indued with the Spirit of God to judg Whether it be in the Power of Man to place aright such things as I have spoken without experience of these things Though I might speak other things as concerning my Judgment both then and present which was not by the perswasion of any one as may appear by what I have said before Who once wondered why the Law written by Moses was retained seeing there was another Law given since him by Jesus Christ whose Law I was to obey But I thought it was retained for a Memorial of what was in Days past as though that Law given by Moses did differ from the Law of Jesus But if there be another Law by Christ it is the Law of Faith and not of Works which is the Moral Law For if Christ made a difference it was in the Ceremonial Law which was then in Type and Figure but now in Substance For our High-Priest is not entered into the Holy Place made with Hands but into Heaven it self not with the blood of Bulls or Goats but with his own Blood because he gave himself an Offering and a Sacrifice to God and He bare our Sins upon his Body on the Tree by the which we have Peace with God But as to the Moral Law or the Law of Works I do not know any change in that though I once thought there was from that of Matth. 5. where he faith Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of Old time but I say unto you as concerning the Oath and other things there mentioned where He interprets the Law For he faith He came not to destroy the Law but to fulfil the Law Neither do I find in those places where He speaketh of putting his Law in their inward parts that He doth mention another Law or a part of that which then was But the Law is of the same length and breadth that it was and doth require as great a Righteousness to be saved thereby as ever it did to them which expect to be saved and accepted with God by Works Then how much doth it concern them which look for Salvation by a Righteousness in which they Live seeing the Scripture faith He that is in Christ ought himself to walk even as he walked 1 Joh. 2.6 Now how did Christ walk Christ so walked that He fulfilled the Law of God Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart with all thy Soul and with all thy Strength and thy Neighbour as thy Self He was the Just One which was offered for the unjust in whose Mouth was found not Guile which in Himself knew no Sin For he did that which was pleasing in the sight of God always at all Times Joh. 8.29.2 Cor. 5.21 But it may fall out these few Lines may be presented to the Hands of some one or other which in their Hearts may say as I once said I have done the Will of the Lord and I have kept all his Commandments and if the Lord should take me out of this World I have no Sin to answer for but my Condition is good I need not to fear For the trial of which I shall repeat the things by which the Lord wounded me with some Additions But first remember these two things First The Lord seeth not as Man seeth for Man looketh upon the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the Heart for the Lord doth require the Heart in what He hath commanded Man to be found in 1 Sam. 16.7 Prov. 23.26 Secondly All things are open to Him and He knoweth the Heart and every Thought and Desire thereof and there is nothing hid from his Eyes 1 Joh. 3.20 Luke 16.15 Psal 94.11 Heb. 4.13 Now to the things by which I was wounded thou may'st remember the Law is Thou shalt love the Lord thy God and thy Neighbour as thy self under which is comprehended these words Do unto all Men as thou wouldst be done unto Now ask thy self Wouldst thou have thy Neighbour speak an evil word of thee which I believe thou wouldst not then thou must not speak an evil word of thy Neighbour Wouldst thou not that an evil Thought should arise in him concerning thee then thou and I ought to do the same to him If thou hast done a thing that proveth an Injury or a Wrong to any Man unawares Wouldst thou in thine Heart he should say nay have such a thought in him that thou didst it on purpose out of Envy or Malice or some Spite towards thee to do thee a Mischief See that thou do the same to him or this will follow Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them Again it is said Love your Enemies do good to them that hate you c. Which must be out of a pure Heart for the Lord looketh thereupon Now ask thy self O Man Art thou of the same frame of Spirit to him that is thine Enemy as thou art to him that is thy Bosom Friend Art thou of the same Temper Affections Coldness in thy Spirit at all times to him as thou art to thy Friend If he wrongeth thee is there not something in thee in thy Heart that would avenge thy self of this Man Doth it not say in this Language He had as good have held his Tongue or he had as good not have done this thing or that other thing for I will do him as good a kindness another time If he had done wrong to thee or some evil thing dost not thou declare it abroad to make him odious or hateful and to be a wicked Person in the Eyes of all or is it not in thy Heart at sometimes thus to do by him Tit. 3.1 2 3. If he be one that hath stood as an open Enemy against thee or one that thou hast received some Damage or wrong by though thou durst not Avenge thy self of him yet hast not thou rejoiced in thy Heart and did it not make thy Heart glad and didst not thou clap thy Hands as it were when some Evil hath befaln him or some other hath taken vengeance If thou hast is not this to take pleasure in them that commit wickedness Rom. 1.32 And is this to do unto Man as thou wouldst be done unto and the Lord will not let such Sins go unpunished Ezek. 25.6 Then this will follow Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the Book of the Law to do them It is further written Matth. 5. Thou shalt not commit Adultery but he that looketh upon a Woman to lust after her hath committed Adultery with her in his Heart and so of all other Evils And dost thou never look upon a Woman having this arising in thee saying Would I might have my Pleasure my Hearts delight with this comely person Also it is farther said Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy Neighbours Now dost thou at no time