into an everlasting calm. I will give you such rest, that the world can neither give to you, nor take from you.

3. I answer:-No one scripture expresses the whole mind of God, therefore do but compare this one scripture with those several scriptures that are laid down in the second remedy last mentioned, and it will clearly appear, that though men are not thus burdened and laden with their sins, and filled with horror and terror, they may come to Christ, they may receive and embrace the Lord Jesus Christ.

Rem. 4. Consider, that all the trouble, sorrow, shame, and mourning for sin, which is acceptable to God, flows from faith in Christ, as the stream from the fountain, as the branch from the root, and as the effect from the cause. Zech. xii. 10. They shall look on him whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him.' All gospel mourning flows from believ-. ing; they shall first look, and then mourn.

CHAPTER IV.

The fourth Device that Satan hath to keep poor sinners from believing in, and closing with a Saviour, is,

BY suggesting to them Christ's unwillingIt is true, saith Satan, Christ is

ness to save.

able to save thee but is he willing? Surely, though he is able, yet he is not willing to save such a wretch as thou art; thou hast trampled his blood under thy feet, and hast lived in open rebellion against him all thy days, &c.-The remedy against this device of Satan, is briefly to consider these few things:

1. The great journey that he hath taken from heaven to earth, on purpose to save sinners, doth strongly demonstrate his willingness to save them. Mat. ix. 13. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance,' and 1 Tim. i. 15.

2. His divesting himself of his glory in order to the salvation of sinners, manifests his willingness to save them. He leaves his Father's bosom, he puts off his glorious robes, and lays aside his glorious crown and bids adieu to his glittering courtiers, the angels, for a season; and all that he may accomplish the salvation of sin

ners.

3. That sea of sin, of wrath, of trouble, and of blood that Jesus Christ waded through, that sinners might be pardoned, justified, reconciled, and saved, strongly evidences his willingness to save them. 2 Cor. v. 19, 20.

4. His sending his ambassadors early and late to woo and entreat sinners to be reconciled to him, doth loudly proclaim his readiness and willingness to save them.

5. His complaints against such as refuse him, and who will not be saved by him, loudly proclaim his willingness to save sinners. John i. 11. He came to his own, and his own received him not.' So in John v. 40. But ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.'

6. The joy and delight that he takes in the conversion of sinners, demonstrates his willingness that they should be saved. Luke xv. 7. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.' God the Father rejoiceth at the return of his prodigal son; Christ rejoices to see the travail of his soul; the Spirit rejoices that he hath another temple to dwell in; and the angels rejoice that they have another brother to delight in, &c.

CHAPTER V.

Here follows seven Characters of False-teachers, which let me add for a close, viz.

THAT Satan labours hard by false teachers, who are his messengers and ambassadors to deceive, delude, and destroy for ever the precious

souls of men.* Jer. xxiii. 13. Mic. iii. 5. They seduce them, and carry them out of the right way into bye-paths, and lead them into error. 'Beware of false prophets,' Mat. vii. 14, 15. These draw out the very blood of souls. Phil. iii. 2. These kiss and kill; they cry, peace, peace, till precious souls fall into everlasting flames, &c.-You may know them by the following characters:

1. They are men-pleasers: they preach more to please the ear, than to mend the heart. Is. Xxx. 10. Jer. v. 30, 31. They handle holy things rather wittily, than with fear and reverence. False teachers are soul destroyers, they are like an unskilful surgeon, who skins over the wound, but never heals it. Flattery undid

False

Not

. Ahab and Herod, Nero and Alexander. teachers are hell's greatest contributors. bitter, but flattering words do all the mischief,' said Valerian, the Roman emperor.

2. False teachers are notable in casting dirt, scorn, and reproach upon the persons, names, and credit of Christ's most faithful ambassadors. Thus Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, charged Moses and Aaron that they took too much upon

*Acts xx, 28-30. 2 Cor. xi. 13, 15. Eph. iv. 14. 2 Tim. iii. 4-6. Tit. i. 11, 12. 2 Pet. ii. 18, 19.

But so are not true teachers. Gal. i. 10. 1 Thess. ii. 1-4.

them, seeing all the congregation was holy. Num. xvi. 3, 9. And so Ahab's false prophets fell foul on good Micaiah, paying him with blows for want of better reasons. 1 Kings xxii. 26. Yea Paul, the great apostle of the Gentiles, had his ministry undermined, and his reputation blasted by false teachers. 2 Cor. v. 10. They rather contemn him, than admire him; they look upon him as a dunce rather than a doctor. And the same hard measure had our Lord Jesus from the Scribes and Pharisees, who laboured as for life, to build their own credit upon the ruin of his reputation. I suppose false teachers mind not that saying of Austin, He that willingly takes from my good name, unwillingly adds to my reward.'

3. They are inventers of the devices and visions of their own heads and hearts. Mat. xxiv. 4, 5, 11, 14. Tit. i. 10. Jer. xiv. 14. chap. xxiii. 16. They are Satan's great benefactors, and such as Divine justice will reward with punishment in hell as the greatest malefactors, if the Physician of souls do not prevent it, &c.

4. They easily pass over the great and weighty things both of law and gospel, and stand most upon those things that are of least moment and concern to the souls of men. 1 Tim. i. 5-7. Mat. xxiii. 23. False teachers are particular in the less things of the law, and as negligent in the greater. 1 Tim. vi. 3-5. If such teachers are not the veriest hypocrites, I know no

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