about God before they change about his Waies I could be very large in this accounting it my very great Mercie that temptation never led me from that Honest Old Godly Puritane Profession of the everlasting truths of the Gospel Secondly Inquire whether they have been carried more to God and Holiness since their change For that which comes from God will carry us to God but if onely to Pride Censuring Libertinisme c. you know what to make of it Beware of Leaven of the Pharises Christ saies for Leaven will sowre the Dough will swell it will harden it and these you meet with in mens spirits leavened with Error Where men once leave the Rule there will be no end of their running till they come to Atheism Therfore stand in awe of God and fear him alwaies Hold to the Word as to Life Question not Truths Look to your Company Value the meanest Ordinance You will need all Be very low and humble before the Lord and Grow in Grace 2 Pet. 3 18. My dear Child 24. And because the first Child that appears in view of this Jesabel the Mother of Mischief Errour so called by John Rev. 2.20 is about the Sabbath either wholly slighting it or counting it Jewish or our day not the right day not the Seventh yea that every day is a Sabbath with the like I mean besides all such as profanely look upon it as a day of Sport Pleasure and Vanity I think it my duty to Charge you as ever you mean or hope to enjoy that everlasting Rest hereafter that you would value the Sabbath Read Dod and others about it I do not remember that I have ever met with a truly Godly gracious soul that lived above or beyond this The first Commandment sets up the true God The second his Worship according to his own will The third his Reverence and Honour and The fourth Time the seventh part of Time for him is holy Time Works of Necessity and Charity not crossing that Holiness I say the seventh part of Time because it is Night in one place when Day in another which Time begins at the Evening as Time is distinguished into Daies Gen. 1. And though the Questions about the Sabbath and Baptism breed much Dispute in the World yet we must Study to know Gods Will in both I must say more to you Where the Sabbath is at an undervallue in any Country say it be France Holland Germany c. there you shall find Religion low and at best wasting it self into Disputes But know that England which is most famous for Religion got it from the Sabbaths upon which day the Lord is pleased as Princes by their Almoners to give out his Gifts and Craces to the sons of men I was a witness that Middleburgh in Zealand grew famous for Religion by Teeling their Preacher fetching the keeping of the Sabbath from England Certainly the Fourth Commandment is the Key to all the rest for how shall the rest be practised if not taught and how taught if not time allowed and what time more likely to carry a Blessing than Gods Appointment It were as good to take down Ministry and all Ordinances as to take down the Sabbath The wonders of God have born witness as Burton and others write against the Breakers of it Wherefore look well about you Isa. 58.13 Love the Lord in his Sabbaths as you would have rest hereafter Look to this Rest here and remember the Sabbath that is Prepare for it all the week long especially the Evening before The Jewes had two Preparations to the Sabbath at Three and Six Do you keep on and gather home all Affections to wait upon the Work and let the day be dear to you The God of Sabbath be yours dear Child 25. The Premises considered I should a little open what I mean by Free Grace to which I send you so often for succour in Cases and truly it hath been much spoken of and as much abused as if men from thence might take leave for any evil and on the other hand also filth cast upon men that have labour'd to hold it forth for which Dr. Crisp suffered also and some of that mind who meant faithfully to the Church of Christ and have written much for the abasement of the Creature and lifting up Grace I wish we may judge right judgement of all men and things But a little Practically to cast in something to profit you The Grace so spoken of should mainly be minded as the Root and Fruits of the New Covenant Jer. 31. and that in Hos. 2. 19 20 c. Which you will find lie upon two-Parties Christ and the poor Believer and Christ to be considered in a double Act of his First In his loving or rather manifesting his love in time to the soul And Secondly In passing over that Right he hath in himself to the believing soul Answerable whereunto the soul first from Christs love is warm'd to love again and from his bounty in his second Act turns over all the soul hath to the Lord Jesus Christ whether Name Estate Wit Parts yea all its Interests Now Christ thus loving the soul and giving himself upon no Meritorious or procuring Cause on the souls side is called Free Grace indeed when the Father shall freely give his Son and the Son freely his Heart-blood and the Spirit freely all its operations and make a free Covenant of grace and mercy to pardon all sin to receive a sinner into his bosom without money or price nay not to offer any thing of his own either Duty or Righteousness Isa. 55.1 this call Free Grace though when Christ comes to manifest this he by the Law gets Parly with the sinner he means to save by some uncouth waies and often very cross to flesh and blood which makes the work hard to judge of at first yet be assured that the whole work will be Free in the Whole Frame of it But because this point is of such singular concernment and that I have formerly delighted to speak to others touching the same and would have the comfort of it my self I shall let you know what I know about the order of the working hereof that you mistake not 26. And in the letting you in this Light to give you the summe of true practical Divinity and therefore observe with diligence That when a discovery is made of this Love to the sinner the Lord Jesus makes a double approach to the soul the first is by the Law where he takes three steps And first by the Law he stops the sinner in his course and makes him to see sin in the very nature of it not in the Hell onely and consequence but in that it separates the soul from the greatest good Romans 7.7 And Secondly makes the soul bear the burden and weight of it which makes David himself cry out often and so others It pincheth hard where sin hath got time and strength c. Thirdly it lets
Lo heere the Dictates of a Dying man Marke well his note who like th' expiring Swan Wisely praesaging hir approaching Doomb Sings in soft charmes hir Epicaedium Such Such are His who was a shining Lamp Which though Extinguisht by a fatall Damp Yet his Last-Breathings shall like Incense hurld On sacred Altars soe perfume the world That the Next will admire and out of doubt Reuere that Torchlight which this age put out A Dying Fathers LAST LEGACY TO AN Onely Child OR Mr. HUGH PETER'S ADVICE TO HIS DAUGHTER Written by his own Hand during hiâ— late Imprisonment in the Tower of London And given her a little before his Death LONDON Printed for G. Calvert anâ—T Brewster and are to be sold at the Blackâ— spread-Eagle and at the Three Bibles at the West-End of Pauls 1660. To the Impartial READER BE not Discouraged from reading this small Treatise because of the unhappy End of a wearisom pilgrimage which the Author met with in this world If we get a Fall in a journey or meet with a great showre of rain so it be in the close of the day when we are near our Inn where we meet with accommodation and refreshment we are the less troubled Yet such was his Care who for many years was very Instrumental in the Church of God and a means of bringing many Souls to Christ and for the Good of others came into this Kingdom when it was in a flame of Civil War which hath signed him also that he might escape everlasting flames in this Discourse he bewails the vanity of his own Spirit And we will not Exause him he finds himself too busie in Aliena Republica and we will not justifie him But if that precious Gold should be cast away because there is some Dross or the Children of God cast out of the Family for every fault though heinous we should condemne the Generation of the Iust You will find in this Legacy to his only Child that he had a Root of Grace and that the Fountain was clear from which ran so savoury a stream And that at the last when he had no hope to save a frail Body yet he minded his own and others Souls And that he was a Master Workman in that Mysterie wherein he had laboured succesfully so many years And we hope that notwithstanding the prejudicasie of some against him and the words of others and his sad shameface Catastrophy we may charitably judge that God hath wiped away all Tears from his Eyes that he is entered into Rest his Works following him and that he is made perfect by his great Sufferings And wish the same to you except these Bonds G.F. N.B. Mr. HUGH PETERS LAST LEGACY TO HIS DAUGHTER For Elizabeth Peters My Dear Child I Have thought to leave you the Extract of all my Experiences so far as may Concern your â—elf and because thre are so â—any Books Printed looking to â—â—l Cases which I have often Commended to you my Labour will be the less though your Pains the greater in searching and studying them which next to the Scriptures I conjure you to acquaint your self withal for never Age was so pregnant that way since our Saviour came in the flesh which Light I wish may grow to greater Glory But to thy self 1. Above all things know That nothing can do you any good without Union with Christ the Head which can never be till your Understanding be enlightned with the want of Christ and his worth and then that your Will be so subdued to that Light that it draw forth choice and consent of and to that only good with an Emvire or Resolution to close with him against Sin World Hell Death c. And know this Thaâ— the necessity of a Christ which the understanding discovers will set the Will on work to all duty and the worth in Christ it makes manifest will make the Will delight unless these two Faculties be thus wrought upon by the Word and Spirit you will be at a constant loss and all the miscarriages in Religion have the Ignorance of this for the Fountain Read Shephards Convert Daniel Rogers Practical Catechism and Hooker to this end with such other helps as you may get And herein I am the more earnest with you because in this my Condition I find that Union with Christ and the Satisfaction Christ hath made to his Fathers Justice by his Active and Passive Obedience are the only Two Pillars that must Support a Soul leaving a mortal Body For as I profess my self Orthodox in all Points of Religion according to the Assemblies Confession Explained by Others at the Savoy also so I have desired in nothing to be more Clear than in the Two Doctrines aforesaid I have wished you to be perfect in Rom. 8. and mind vers. 1. and vers. 28. well with what follows to the end of that Chapter this hath been my Experience That the Preaching of these Truths have been my greatest Advantage and of most benefit to Others though in this I have enough to bewail also 2. To this purpose Hear the best Men Keep the best Company Read the best Books especially make the Grounds of Religion your own Balls and the Assemblies Catechism with the like you have from me Commended to you And though there are near an Hundred several Catechisms in the Nation yet if sound they must speak one thing viz. Man lost in himself Redeemed only by Christ and holy Walking or Thankfulness you have my Experience so often repeated to you That an unbroken Heart and an uncatechised Head will keep distance enough betwixt God and a poor sinful Creature Oh! that Parents and Ministers would think of it what a heap of Mischiefs this Neglect hath produced The Waldenses and Germans had never been so famous for Suffering had they been uncatechized This is a large Field in which I could Walk long Preach long yea lose my self in this sweet Wilderness For this is life eternal to know thee and Jesus Christ Joh. 17.23 But take this for a Caution That many may be well Taught also who never took forth Christs first Three Lessons never denying themselves nor taking up the Cross nor following him Matth. 16.24 We know no more than we Practise yet we shall never practise without Knowledge How many Scriptures give Evidence to this which I forbear to quote only remember how Solomon extols Wisdom and Knowledge I take my share in Mourning that I see in the Afternoon of this Age the Shadow longer than the Substance Profession than Practise though the Trade may not be Condemned when it falls into ill hands that manage it He that sets up Religion to get any thing by it more than the glory of God and the saving his own Soul will make a bad Bargain of it in the close My dear only Child be rooted in the Truth and thou shalt be fruitfull thriving 3. Be constant in Reading the Scriptures and that with a fervent Meditation I mean as
like the Squiril leaping from Tree to Tree and Bough to Bough Be much at Home and you will find work enough as long as you keep Christ and sin before you you will have work enough for your Thoughts and if your Fancy be not well fed your Thoughts like Milstones will grinde themselves Spirits rais'd and not imploy'd will torment the Witch that rais'd them And if you set not your self on work the Devil will mark but the several Trees of fruit or others they grow in their own roots and change not Be content to be a shrub Cedars will shake and never desire to be near Greatness Honour often dies grinning and ghastly Our business must be our own as well as our Crosses To meddle with other mens work will be thankless as to take other mens Physick will be useless if not dangerous An hours Idleness is a sin as well as an hours Drunkenness Few mens feet stand before Princes because few mens hands are diligent The Maid was possest because the Devil found her in his own house viz. a Play-house The Busie-body is but a Pedler to carry up and down and vend the Devils Wares How few lose any thing by quietness and doing their own work Their sweet sleep commends it David got his great wound upon this neglect and Peter his by warming his Hands when he should have been breaking his heart in secret Oh keep home keep home I speak experience to you who never found good hour but in mine own work Nor doth this cut off works of Love or Charity which must be attended in their seasons and by their Rules The cure of this evil lies much in Studying duty the end of your Creation being the practice of Saints that though you work here ease is in Heaven all your labour is little enough for your own business be alwayes ready to say I am where the Lord would have me to be How bitter is the remembrance of good hours ill spent How cuting of time lost Death knows no distance whether King or Bishop or Pawn all at the end of the Game is put into one Bag the Grave Be doing your own work what ever your condition be Tell me what our blessed Lord did but the work he was sent about Be like him in this as in all things else and that Spirit of the Lord Jesus be with thee My dear Heart 13. Through your whole course let Truth have its way and do not make Lyes your Refuge they will mock you in the end Mr Reynor and others have written largely about the words and the Tongue but none to James the Apostle You see I do not load you in any thing with Heathens Fathers Poets and their Apothegms which are many in these Cases which I purposely avoid as tickling the ear when often they reach not the heart A Schollar yea a School-boy may gather them but the Truth of God set on by his Spirit must make you consistent All the World is hung with lyes and all of man Proclaims so much Cloaths Meats Trades Salutations yea our Profession of Religion All men are Lyers and all things on this side Christ a Lie The Prince of the Ayre makes it his work who was the Father of Lies Christ calls for Yea and Nay onely I wish in Christianity we could find this Christianity Heathenâ— and Turks shame us it is the blot of the Nation as if we were Lyars in the Womb the sin even lives and dyes with us you may not tell a Lye for God The Prophet Zechary put Peace and Truth together as if they could not be asunder Zech 8.15 16 19. The Root is the Heart from whose abundance the Tongue speaketh Oh the falsness and deceit of this little thing Not a Breakfast for a Kite Away with that distinction of Jocous or Friendly Lyes Psal. 101. David will have no Lyer with him Truth takes in all good Religion God ownes none where it is not Hypocrisie is a Lye Friend Name Credit Estate Beauty Honour c. are full of Lyes John 6. Christ the Truth as well as Life and Way Though every untruth be not a Lye where it is not spoken with a purpose to deceive so men distinguish your care must be to trade with your heart Nathaniels heart was honest and so without guile good feed fell into an honest heart Truth is naked beware of base Coverings Let your conversation be without Guile without a Lie the Lord is the Heart-searcher Sow up your Mouth but let it be with Honestie not Policie As you never hurt your self by speaking little so will you never gain any thing by telling a Lie Let others call this sin a Virtue but do you call it by its own name and hate it as Poison Let Truth be thy Portion it will preserve you and ever say I can do nothing against the Truth dear Child 14. And what I said last urgeth me to commend Wisdom to you which is a very comprehensive word and is justified of her Children But I mean not the Wisdom of this world whether natural or artificial I intend Scripture Wisdom which is from above And this is a Light that God sets up in the Soul to direct us and affect us in our whole course Joh 28. last The Fear of the Lord that is Wisdom and to depart from Evil that is Understanding If you be wise be wise for your self To have all Books in ones Head and want this Catechism in the Heart will never amount to it Many great Clerks not wise many a Statist falls short But this will make you hear Prov. 1.5 It will make you lay a sure Foundation Matth. 7. the Wise Builder This will make you provide for Changes Luke 16.8 This will make you lay in abundantly Matth. 25. the Virgins were wise This will make you bear sorrow Eccles. 7.4 And truly this is Wisdom and the Helps hereunto are to become a Fool 1 Cor. 3.18 To number your dayes that so you may apply your heart to Wisdom To beg it of God Jam. 1.5 But above all to make Christ your Wisdom 1 Cor. 1. last Oh that you were thus wise Much of Wit must be pared off before it will be usefull I have seen the wayes of it though never could pretend much to it But this I know that being unsanctified it is a sword in a mad-mans hand spends it self in vanity foolish jesting abuse of those who are weaker than our selves yea often to play with the blessed Word of God But this Wisdom will guide preserve honour you How doth Solomon admire it in the Proverbs bids you seek it love it follow after it and this is Christ himself You shall never have comfort in suffering for Folly therefore see the plague and hide which hath invited some so to do often Experience which is the observation of many Events will help you much in this study be much in the Word which will make you wise to Salvation Let your Companions
Funeral Sermons you may reade about it I say Life is sweet and Death terrible many in several distempers may call for it neither minding what it is nor whither it leads Job describes it in his Agony and Heathens could say The first good was not to be born and the next to dye quickly Paul above any desires it upon right grounds Yea the last words in the Canticles and the last in the Bible are for the Lord Jesus to come quickly yea to come to judgment as if it were the breathings of the spirits of the Just in the last times of which spirit if you be these will be your Reasons as theirs First That you may see Him of whom you have heard so much who hath done and suffered so much for you Secondly That you may have full draughts of what you now tast only Thirdly That your Beloved may come to you or you to Him for whose sake and love you may undergo here many frowns brow-beatings if not worse thus the absent Spouse waits for her Beloved Fourthly When the Sanctuary is troden upon Isa. 64.1 Fifthly That the double Vail of Corruption and Affliction may be taken off from you Thus to wish for Death is to wish for Life These things I pray study and to help you further remember Balaam would fain die the Death of the Righteous which you can never do unless you live the Life of the Godly to which I have written so much before Only let me adde That you must live in daily Expectation of this great Change for though there be but one way into the World there are many out I know nothing to sweeten it but the Death of Christ who suckt out the poison of it and saves to the uttermost Romans and Fools can dye bravely write their own Elegies I am sure a well-led life is the best Monument If one at your door should cry every morning You must dye it would not reach far but Christ dyed for you My Child 30. They say and truly Where Death leaves you there Judgment finds you Nothing flies so swiftly than as the soul out of the body and you know Eternity hangs upon a moment and such is our Life and especially such is the last groan and pang and thither it leads It is a vast Ocean hath neither bound nor bottom where you are to come before an impartial Judge with a naked and open breast it is unavoidable and the miscarriage there intolerable Many Books are written by many about these last things and Apothegmes not a few the World and the Flesh will not appear for you the former can lend you but a few Ceremonies and Complements the other dare go no further than the Judges door but a good Conscience sprinkled by the Blood of Christ will enter with boldness and plead and hear the voice of Come ye blessed Your wisdome will be to carry your Pardon in your bosome there Wit and Learning Parts and Wealth will get no hearing there the Eloquent Orator is dumb no Coin is currant but the Blood of a loving Saviour No man can appear there by any other Proxy there Greatness must give way to Goodness there Hypocrisie is unmask'd Truth naked there your fellow Saints shall sit Judges though dispised amongst men there the Son of man shall appear because despised as the Son of man there Preaching Miracles Casting out Devils will not profit but a Name written in the Book of the Lamb Oh that you would consider betimes what a nothing a thousand years are to Eternity yea where you shall be an hundred years hence if the Grave make no distance betwixt the Scepter and the Mattock what will Eternity do when that shall make the difference Wherfore I pray measure all your works by Eternity eat drink sleep work by Eternity the cry of a damned soule is I never minded Eternity how many are every day carrying faggots to burn them to Eternity Call that good that holds for ever Let but the Judge be your Husband and fear nothing The ever-living God love you and keep you to all Eternity My Child 31. And because I have brought you so far as the Great Day give me leave to awaken you with the condition of the place Heaven and to let you know it in the particulars which are the presence of all good and the absence of all evil the former commends it self unto you in these First in the universality of it whereas all things here below are but partial so in the suitableness of it they are there spiritual and suitable to the Spirit Secondly for their Continance the good things are not like Cherries drawn by the lips or Comforts tasted and gone but they stay and are good for ever Thirdly Evil knows no place there Sin cannot dwell with that Holiness Sorrow cannot mingle it self with that Joy no more fading Riches dying Friends changing Honors perishing Beauty no more aking heads nor languishing diseases no more hearing the chain of the Prisoner nor anger of the Oppressor no cry of what do you lack every Bottle is full and every Bed easie being of never-blasting Roses and Sweets where every Room is paved with Love where Wisdom Power Mercy and Grace have combined to make all glorious and pleasant Then never be troubled about a dunghil-world when the Apostle to the Thessalonians sayes all in a few words We shall be with the Lord for ever and that includes all answers all hard Questions all hard Labours under the Sun Remember the Swaggerer that met the poor man ever mourning over his sins quoth he What still mourning c. But what if there be no Heaven Ah Sir quoth the other what if there be a Hell The Doctrine of Hell was never enough preach'd some thinks and there on the contrary is the presence of all evil and the absence of all good you may study it by the former where the Tormented never die and the Tormentor is never weary where thought and fear despair punishment extremity meet altogether in Eternity The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve you to his Heavenly Kingdom My poor Child Union with Christ and Knowledge sound The Scriptures reade in Pray'r be found A constant Watch and growth in Grace Good Conscience Time short Work apace Contentment in Condition Low No Trifling Spirit in you grow Nor Busie nor Pragmatical Truth still appearing in your All Wisdom directing soon and late In Calling and in Marriage-state The World describ'd in its bad wayes A Friend indeed beyond all praise And Sin the Mother of all Grief Grace often question'd for relief With Providences running crosse Fears sinfull causing Doubts and Losse Dayes of Adversity and Evil Errors that spring from Self and Devil Sabbath for Rest and Worshipping And Free-grace pitying pardoning With accurate and holy walking Hard to believe though easie talking Death ghastly looking and Sins daughter With Judgment that will follow after Heav'n in its great Magnificence Hell's punishment in
in all this will be To be willing to want what God is not willing to give and to know he is wise to give what he will how he will and when he will for the godly heart for temporals cries Lord what thou wilt and in spirituals When thou wilt and in both How thou wilt Beggars must be no chusers and any thing is good from the hand of such a Father Your Interest in Christ supplies all and sweetens all but with the Doves Innocency use the Serpents Wisdom live in daily waiting and expectation of Changes even in your best and holiest condition here Deaths-heads and Hour-glasses will be but ordinary significant Ceremonies it is within you that cruciats or comforts He that made the World can change it when he will Your Comfort will be that in the greatest storm your heavenly Father is at the Helm though Sin and Satan bussle that Hand keep you My dear Child 21. And if you ask me after all what you shall do with your fears to which your sex and condition prompt you you shall have what I know though the Lord Jesus answers all to his little Flock when he sayes Fear not yea more particularly Fear not them that can only kill the body and destroy that You must know that your question wil mainly lie about base unwarrantable fears which have these roots Either when out of this fear you are loth to part with that the Lord would have you let go or would part with that the Lord would have you keep as when you wrangle about some Corruption especially which is dear unto you and hath some great disadvantage attending your throwing it away These kinds of fear are accompanied with these mischiefs As you will be unwilling to know your duty so you will be unwilling to practise it when you know it yea not only so but through fear be as unable as unwilling like that trembling King at the hand-writing he saw The inconveniences are very many and the sins not few that follow it The cure in general even for Peter who by it denied his Master is this That whoever fears to sin never sins by fear and more particularly The absence of some good you desire or the coming on of some evil draws out this fear Therefore make much of this Rule Be ever possest of some good that may answer the taking away of what you may lose which is the presence and favour of God in Christ In the night the waking Child in the Cradle is quiet at the Nurses coming to it because there is more of comfort in the Nurse than fear in the Dark And then be perswaded to set a right value upon all earthly perishing dying things do not call a Pebble a Pearl But above all keep your fear in his proper channel Oh fear God fear God It is not only the beginning of Wisdom but the perfection of your joys which kept Joseph and others of the Saints from sin My earnest desire for you is That the Lord would give you an even and equal spirit and the root of it Integrity That as the Righteous you may be bold as a Lion and yet rejoyce with trembling In this good fear I leave you My dear Child 22. And if the Evil you fear and a day of Affliction come upon you then my counsel is bear vvith the feebleness of it in all take that Rule Eccles. 7.14 In that evil day or day of your distresses you must Consider which is as the word bears by solemn and diligent thoughtfulnesse to take things assunder especially sorrows and sins For the little Needle vvill draw a long tail of Thread after it little sins may be follovved vvith great sorrovvs to set you at your vvork First You must see the evil of Adversity in the nature of it such a plague and such a visitation and in the causes of it As in the principal none of that evil in the City but from the Lord In the Meritorious Cause there look at sin and search closely and then the Final Cause God will either be glorified by your Humiliation or Ruine He will either bend you or break you and thus he doth with Nations Churches and every Individual But for the Instrumental Cause travel not much there Though Pharaoh were the occasion of the Plagues yet the Aegyptians sins the Cause Secondly In such an evil time you must live by faith so Habbakkuk and walk with God for this must be your Rule That no condition supercedes Duty that may be must be performed And in these you may not dally it is your life Thirdly To get out of such a day and case you may not act unlawfully nor did Paul in going out in a Basket Take these Rules First See what the word saies if you can find a Paralel case and help Secondly If that be dark see what Providence suggests but that you must neither Slight nor Cross nor out-run Lastly If here you want Light then live and die upon the counsel of Impartial friends that you may trust Gods way in doubtful and hard cases And be assured that in distress I know not if Enemies bring your Release it will be too late and if some friends bring it it may be too soon but if God do bring it it will be seasonable I will hear what the Lord will say cries the Prophet So do you My dear Heart 23. Though in part I have hinted something about Errors yet in this age and juncture I need let you know what I know since the importunity of Errour hath brougt forth so many Obliquities and occasioned so much scandal to Religion the World thorow And because many have touch'd hereupon as you see in their Writings and many more Polimicks and Disputes are Printed than profitable every Partie striving their own advancement this I have said this I must say That whoso departs from those Fundamentals profest and died upon by the Saints and Martyrs since the reformation and departure from Popery need to have his Opinion written in Stars for If an Angel bring another Gospel he or it may not be received that shall contradict what we have received already from the Lord Jesus It is a continuing word Oh that it might abide in us and with us Two things in such a danger I commend unto you First Observe or ask your self or others what frame of spirit or heart you are in when you receive this noveltie and if I mistake not When the heart is Proud Lazie or Frothie neglects communion with God dutie and exactness then a cover-Cup for such corruption is sought after then Preachers understand nothing then men can live without God Ordinances c. You must know that this work is gradual The Ship sails through the Channel where she may have Land on both sides before she come to the Main and loseth sight of all Land But this you will certainly find That if these People would speak out they have changed their Opinions