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Rh read the 12th of the Hebrews, ver. 14. Follow peace with all men, and holineſs, without which none ſhall ſee the LORD.—What kind of holineſs is this, ſirs? I'll tell you what it is, it is not ſuch a meaſure of holineſs as Abraham, Moſes, or David, or any of theſe great worthies had; God will take leſs off your hands poor folk; it is holineſs in deſign, that is the thing that God will approve of from you. It is not the ſtock of grace that ye have received that will do your turn; it is the thing that ye live in expectation of, and is longing for: ye may want many things, but ye may not want holineſs: friends, ye may be blind, lame, poor in the world, dumb, contemptible, and reproached, and want many things, and yet come to heaven; but and ye want holineſs, ye will never come there; take heed of thoſe things I intreat you in ſuch a day as this.

Now ſirs, There are many of you come here the day out of ſeveral places; ye are all come here profeſſing to be worſhippers of God and living folk: but I am to lay by five or ix ſorts of folk that is but dead folk.

And, 1ſt, ye are dead folk that are ignorant of the ſaving way and device of ſalvation through the covenant of redemption, deviſed betwixt the Father and the Son from all eternity, ye are all dead folk that is ſuch, ye are all ignorant of the caſe of the work of God in Scotland, ye are all dead folk. I had rather have one of you ſufferers that is bred at Chriſt's ſchool in throw in Clydſdale yonder, than have an hundred of you to join with me: ye lave no weight with God, no grace, no ſcholars at Chriſt's ſchool, and therefore ye are but dead folk.

A 2d ſort are, Ye who are fair bloſſoming profeſſors, but ye are but as whited tombs, as rotten as dead graves, and hath nothing but a profeſſion, and knows not what the work of regeneration is; ye are dead folk, we muſt lay you by.