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18 that all is well with them. We have already spoken of the danger of resting upon apprehended sorrow for sin, so these may be much also of the flames of joy, tenderness and heart-meltings, which hypocrites may have at sometimes by another. Consider these who were John’s hearers, John v. 35 ‘Who for a season rejoiced in his light.’ O! beware of gospel hypocrites, take not flashes for conversion. If it could be determined how great a length hypocrites may come, we think it would first here. O what shall we say of it! do what they will, and come as great a length as they can, they never come unto Christ, who are not fully denied, to 'themselves, and positively only rest upon Jesus Christ, for justification and sanctification. True faith hath two voices. First, It calls and cries, O sinner, lean not to myself, rest not there. Secondly, O sinner, rest on Jesus Christ and lean unto himself.

USE. Now O believers, search and try yourselves, set about it earnestly, this is your work, and it will not be done slumbering and sleeping There are many of you here this day, who are not come the length of some of these steps, which we have named yet, ye may come through them all every one, and if ye go not farther, ye will never win to Christ: And in his name I tell you, ‘Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.’

Ye know, we gave you some hints of these who are the Lord’s people, viz. These who have ‘come, unto Christ,’ and are made righteous, and live righteously: and for the more clearing of it, we, now declare who these are, who have come unto him, by giving some marks and evidences, how the same may be known. We are not speaking of, 'being in Christ,’ as a creature by creation and preservation, nor as a member externally, but as a