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had gone forth from us (as a witness of his displeasure against that rent and schism, made in his body; and that the truth of what his faithful servant had foretold them, would be the issue of that course, might be verified, viz. That, if they departed, they should leave Christ behind them, keeping house with their mother, as his wife, in whose face they had spit, and in running thus away, had made fool's haste from home) there was no standing nor fixing, till the most fervid and furious drivers in that rent, rolled themselves headlong into this abyss of all abominations, desperate Quakerism; and so that the place thereafter became the seat, seminary, and seed-plot, wherein this root of bitterness, whereby the church of Christ is troubled, and many defiled, hath sprung up. And I would also stir up thy pure mind, by way of remembrance, that thou mayst be established in the present truth, beseeching thee to consider with awful regard, how one parish particularly in the West of Scotland, with some persons in the adjacent places, forsaking us, and falling off from us, upon the same pretence, were likewise in the same manner (after other significations of his displeasure against their way, evident beyond denial, and contributive to the establishment of such who take notice thereof) left of the Lord, after their many other wanderings, to plunge and precipitate themselves into this ditch, and deep pit; in which posture they still ly, without pitying themselves, or imploring the help of others. And though these, and the like, might have been warnings sufficient, to all the professors of the truth to have continued in his goodness, while they beheld the just severity of God upon them which fell; yet I cannot conceal it, that, as it is a grief, beyond all that the serious servants of the Lord have groaned under, or do find, because of their other sufferings, to see how many have followed these pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth is evil spoken of; so it fills them with amazement, anxiety, yea, sinking and insupportable sorrow, to see not a few professors of the truth so little touched at the heart for, and troubled at, the power and prevalency of these soul-murdering delusions; but walking with as little care, circumspection and fear of coming near this spreading contagion, as if they did not thereby provoke the Lord to leave them to that, which ought to be equally lothsome and hateful to their souls, with hell. Is it not strange, that some will stand aloof from Prelates, and profess an hatred at, and abhorrence of Popery, Arminianism, Erastianism, Socinianism, Arianism, Pelagianism, Familism, Antinomianism, Atheism, and Heathenism, c. and yet there will be a fearless, yea, familiar conversing with abominable Quakers, without all due dread of being deserted of God, and left to a defiling of themselves with Satan's slime wherewith they are besmeared, and that botch of hell which is running upon them, wherewith many, because of their too near approach, have been, and are infected; yea, and a speaking of them as a kind of innocents (which if they be, Satan himself, in his warring against Michael and his angels, is not innocent) and with less lothing and abhorrence than of any of the former? whereas, Quakerism may be truly called (if the term be sufficiently expressive of the thing) pure Devilism. I mean, not only because of what special power and influence Satan hath been observed, by gracious and grave men, to have had over and upon the bodies and spirits of not a few of that montrous brood; but also because these have licked up and swallowed down, the dung of all these desperate, soul-destroying heresies, hatched in hell by the father of falsehoods and lies; and whatsoever is in any of these most deadly and damnable, that is, to them, their darling; and whatsoever is the most mortal poison in the cup of their abominations, and hath the most close and clear connection with the destruction of the immortal soul, this they swallow down, and vomit it up, and spue it out again in every place, and with a piece of the black art, peculiar to that tribe, dish up this dung of hell, and set it as Manna before such as they would make disciples, to be supped up, and swallowed down, that they may thereby poison, beyond the power of an antidote, those souls whom they seduce; and, while they draw them after them, drown them in the same perdition with themselves. These are the poor innocents you talk of: what a wonder and astonishment is it, that the very sink of hell, which cometh forth at their impure and polluted mouths, in blasphemies against God, his Christ, his Spirit, his word, his precious and pure ordinances, the purchase of the blood of Christ, and the means of fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ, should not make all who are, or would be reputed, lovers of our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, abhor them, as the most odious vermin, and black locusts, that ever crawled out of the infernal lake, or croaked upon the face of earth, and flee the sound of their blasphemous belchings, as the very sibiliation of the old serpent? If the Spirit of God call a forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, the doctrines of devils; what name or notion can be fallen upon, or found fit, to unfold the nature of that doctrine, comprehensive of all these doctrines of devils, wherby the gospel hath been, from the beginning, opposed, through Satan's black art, and utmost malice? as if in this one shape, and size of the enemies to the gospel, were gathered together and cemented all the several parties that ever Abaddon and Apollyon commanded in his several expeditions against the prince Michael. For this at once and for ever, not in parcels and by consequence, makes void the whole gospel of the grace of God, and the all of that blessed contrivance of salvation, by the Son of God, as a slain Saviour. This is such an explicit, unmasked, and gross perversion of the gospel, that if the apostle, who had the spirit of God, who had the mind of Christ, who had received the spirit of love and of a sound mind, who, being filled with the Holy Ghost, spoke to a seducing Elymas, seeking to turn away the deputy, desiring to hear the word of God, from the faith, (the persons are of the same practice, and this is the post, here the captain sets them to stand sentry) in these terms, O full of all subtilty, and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt not thou cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? Would ye have spoke to them in another stile or strain, being persons of the same practice? And this is the prey they hunt for, by perverting the right ways of the Lord, to turn men from the faith once delivered to the saints, and to turn away the ear of any, whom they observe desirous to hear the word of God, from the truth, that they may turn them unto their blasphemous fables, and bewitch even these into a disobedience to the gospel, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified amongst them. Yea, if he would, and actually did curse, even an angel from heaven, upon a supposition of a less and lower degree of perversion of the gospel of Christ; how would he have sent this race of men a-packing, without more ado, the way he sent Hymeneus and Alexander, whom he delivered unto Satan, that they might learn not to blaspheme? as, after his example, many of them were dealt with by our faithful men, when in case, who, by drawing out church-censures, delivered the body from being gangrened by such members; but, while we are now kept from making use of this most proper remedy, the Holy Ghost hath supplied it in a most tremendous manner, and with such a witness, as he must be blind who seeth them not carry about with them the blackest-like badge, and most unquestionable-like character and cognisance of being cut off from that church that he washeth with his own blood, which they are left to blaspheme and trample under foot, that ever any race of apostates were stigmatize dwith. And that other disciple likewis, who breathes forth so much of love, is most peremptory in pressing those, whom he persuades to the love of Christ, and of the brethren, to a professed detestation of such enemies to Christ: insomuch that he will not have any, who would witness their love to him, who witnessed his love to his people, in sending his only-begotten Son into the world, to be a propitiation for their sins, and that they who were dead in sins and trespasses might live through him, to receive them into their houses, or give such factors for Satan the least of countenance or encouragement. And here, by the way, let me set before thee the practice of that great man of God, Mr. John Livingston (of whom, without vanity, or being judged to hold men's persons in admiration for advantage, I fear not to say, That, in the day he was taken up from us, I knew not so great an ambassador for Christ left upon the earth: O to see some, on whom this Elijah's mantle is fallen!) as a fit pattern in the case for thy imitation; who, when one of these master-seducers, and grand traffickers to defile the world, and bewitch it into the same damnable delusion, whereto he, as a just punishment for his levity in religion, and what he himself may know besides, was left, pretending old acquaintance, came to make him a visit, would not receive him into his house, as judging he could not otherwise have witnessed his having received Jesus Christ to dwell in his heart and house, than by such a pratice; and herein he made himself an example for us, to follow such a follower of God, as a dear child. O let all who hope to be saved by Jesus Christ, and to whom God hath made him wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption: all who know no other way of being justified before the tribunal of God, but by the imputed righteousness of him, whose name is, The Lord our righteousness; or saved and sanctified, but by his working in them to will and to do, who hath redeemed them from their vain conversation by his own blood: all who being justified by faith, have ever had, or hope to have, peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: all who now fit together in heavenly places in Christ, and who are preserved by the power of God, through faith unto salvation: all who know no other Fountain, to bathe their leprous soul in, nor stream to bleach their spotted and black soul by, that they may appear before God without spot, but the blood of Jesus Christ, which cleanseth from all iniquity, even his blood, who for this purpose did, thro' the eternal Spirit, offer up himself without spot unto God. All who have found the sweetness of the scriptures, and have felt how their hearts burn within them, while he talked with them, and opened these unto them, and their ear and heart to receive what was said. All who have been by these made wise unto salvation: all that ever have had access to God through Christ, and know no other way of being accepted but in the Beloved: all who see themselves (and the devil hath put out his eyes who sees it not) under a necessity, though in a clean state, of making daily use of the blood of Christ, in order to a keeping up of fellowship betwixt them, and the Father, and his Son Jesus Christ, while here, and of being admitted to have a part with him hereafter (for that man's feet shall never stand within that glorious city, whereinto nothing that defileth or worketh abomination, can enter, which Christ doth not wash; If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me, is his own word to a person in a clean state.) All, to whose souls, after they had received the sentence of death in themselves, God hath spoken peace upon the account of his Christ, who is our peace: all who, knowing they can do nothing without him, live under a seen necessity of daily drawing strength from Christ, who works in them both to will and to do, and must perfect that which concerneth them, and look only for the acceptation of their service in and through Christ: all, whose great All it is to be found in him in the day of his appearance, not having their own righteousness, but that which is through the faith of Christ, even the righteousnes which is of God by faith: all who, because they have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, know no other way but to throng in amongst these ungodly, who are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood: all whose eyes God hath opened, and turned from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified, through faith that is in him: all who have, or hope to have, redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: all to whom he hath given an understanding to know him that is true, and in whose heart he hath written his law, and put his fear, that they shall not depart from him: all into whose soul he hath shined, to give them the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face ofJesus Christ, while this gospel is hid from others: all who have received that Spirit which is of God, and not that spirit which is of the world, whereby the child of God is distinguished from a natural man, who receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God (for the highest pitch and perfection of natural mens light judgeth these things foolishness. The world through wisdom knew not God) neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned: all who ever have been made glad in his house of prayer, and have been admitted to walk with the king in the galleries, where he is held: all to whose soul he hath endeared and commanded ordinances, and who have found the gospel to be the power of God unto salvation; all who are begun partakers of the glory to be revealed, and who hope to ly down in the grave, under the comfortable hope of a glorious resurrection, and shut their eyes singing, in the expectation that their vile body shall be changed, that it may be fashioned like his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself; and that they shall be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall be ever with the Lord: all who would obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. In a word, all who are Christians, on whom that worthy name is called, as the badge of their profession: who profess faith in him, whom God hath sent and sealed to be the Saviour of the world; that one Mediator, which is between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time; he who is the second person of the blessed Trinity, the eternal Son of God, equal to, and consubstantial with the Father, but personally distinct from him; incarnate, by assuming the nature of man, in the womb of the virgin Mary, by which he became Immanuel,
God and Man in two distinct natures, united in one singular Person, who is the Substance of the gospel, and the Mystery of godliness: this which comprehends the All of our salvation, and consolation, yea, the All of Christian religion, is so wrapt up herein, that whosoever strikes at this, strikes at name and thing of Christian religion, robs us of the whole gospel, and turns us over into pure heathenism, shuts us out eternally from all access to God, and makes our salvation for ever simply impossible; for, if we believe not that He is that He, we shall die in our sins; and yet every article of this, that they may for ever destroy the foundations of salvation, is by them oppugned and subverted. They, putting a false Christ instead of the true Jesus, the Son of David, our only Saviour; denying Christ to be the second Person of the Trinity; denying Christ to be a singular Person; denying Jesus the Son of Mary, to be the alone true Christ; but affirming Christ to be a common sort of thing, to be found in every man, as it was in the Son of Mary, even the common light to be found in the mind of every man in the world; affirming Jesus, the true Christ, the Son of Mary, to be only an ordinary Vessel, which containeth this light, as the spirit of every other holy man doth; and so, not only pulling down our exalted Prince from his throne of glory, but putting their false prophets in his place, clothing them with the glory of his proper titles, as being Christ as well as he, because containing the same light with his. Thus do they blaspheme that worthy Name by the which we are called: thus do they rob our Saviour, the only Lord Jesus Christ who is the Brightness of the Father's glory, and the express image of his Person, of his glorious prerogative and majesty; and, in contempt of this exalted Prince and Saviour clothe themselves with the spoils of his honour. And thus do they rob the church of him, whom God hath given to be her Head and Saviour; that so, having turned the world with themselves into a synagoge of Satan, they may enrich hell. This is the great mystery of their iniquity, and a monster it is, in shew and substance, and in all dimensions of devilry, prodigious, beyond any shape Satan ever yet assumed, or wherein he shewed himself in the world. The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan! even the Lord (who hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, to be the alone propitiation for sins, and prepared a Body for that purpose) rebuke thee, ought to be the constant language of the heart of every one to whom Christ is become a Saviour, till he cast forth this blasphemous spirit out of those demoniacks. For what else is this, which proceedeth out of the mouths of such persons, but pure hellism! No man, sure, who hath ever heard the gospel of the grace of God, or is acquainted with the very first principles of the oracles of God, but he must conclude, men of that spite, malice and dialect, men who talk at this rate of railing against our Immanuel, against his holy Child Jesus, that Child born unto us, and that Son given unto us, who is yet the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace, must be the very candidates of hell, and have commenced in the infernal regions, where more black, more abominable, more horrid and bold blasphemies, cannot be belched forth. I say therefore, O let all who have the name of Christ called upon them; all to whom that blessed name is as ointment poured forth, and to whom he is precious, even he whom the Father hath laid in Zion for a Foundation and Cornerstone, disallowed indeed of these builders, but chosen of God and precious: all who seek a sure resting-place for their souls; for whosoever believeth on him, shall not be ashamed; and all who know no other solid foundation; for other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ, he is the sure and sole Foundation: let them carry towards this race of Renegadoes, from the very real profession of Christianity, as Satan's special agents and emissaries, who, with a malice infused by their master, and resembling him, and a peculiar keenness, fury and rage, as set on fire by hell, blaspheme the true Saviour, our blessed Lord Jesus, who, being come of the Fathers according to the flesh, is God over all blessed forever, and fight against that one, that alone way of salvation, which is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. And in prosecution of this war, and pursuance of this open hostility against heaven, and that it may appear whose angels they are, under whose banner they fight, who sends them, serves himself by them, sets them on work, and drives them in their restless compassing of sea and land, to proselyte poor souls, and draw them into the same conspiracy with themselves against our Lord Jesus Christ, and the alone way of salvation by him; they oppose, as incensed with malice and rage, the Mediator's ministers and messengers, sent forth to preach this everlasting gospel, and to point forth the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world: and while they are preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching these things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, setting forth Christ evidently crucified before their eyes, that they may look unto him and be saved; and preaching salvation in the name of this Jesus of Nazareth, and testifying, that as God hath exalted him to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance and forgiveness of sins: so there is no other name given under heaven, by which men must be saved: these are the glad tidings of great joy for all the people, which make the feet of him who publisheth them beautiful; and this is the main of the gospel of the grace of God (yea, that without which there is no gospel and no salvation) that all may know assuredly, that through this Man, who is both Lord and Christ, is preached unto them the forgiveness of sins, and that by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which they could not be justified by the law of Moses: while, I say, his ministers are about this, striving according to his working, which worketh in them mightily, these false prophets and seducers, after the same method and malice of Barjesus, withstand them, and seek to turn away their hearers from the faith; yea, they seek to dissuade the people from hearing the Lord's messengers speaking the Lord's message, in the very stile and strain and spirit of Rabshakeh; let not these men (say they of the ministers of Christ) deceive you, neither let them make you trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, saying, This Lord Jesus will save you to the utmost: hearken not unto them, turn you to the light within you. This common thing, that is to be found in every man, that is the Christ which must save you, and not this Christ, the only Son of God, (as they talk, and would persuade you) incarnate by assuming the nature of man in the womb of the virgin Mary. And if, amongst all the ambassadors to whom the ministry of reconciliation is committed, there be one more eminently qualified than another, to whom his Master hath given a special spiritual dexterity in beseeching, praying and persuading men to be reconciled unto God, who hath made his only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, sin for them, that they may be made the righteousness of God in him; One, whose shining light, and burning zeal proves him to be a Star held in his Master's right-hand; One whom Jesus Christ doth most remarkably countenance in his administrations, in making manifest the favour of his knowledge by him amongst the people; One highly esteemed for his work's sake, and endeared to the lovers of our Lord Jesus Christ, for his caring naturally for the flock, and travailing in birth till Christ be formed in his hearers; One by whose ministry Satan's dominion over souls is destroyed, and they installed into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God: then, as if they were the sole trustees that Satan had upon the earth, and his only Janizaries fitted for that work, or as if they were sent express from hell, they set themselves in opposition to this man, and all who walk with him in the same spirit, and in the same steps, and do all they can, by their bawhng, to blast the ministry of such a worker together with God. As the ministers of Jesus Christ are the men in the world against whom they have the most pure and perfect hatred, so it is against those ministers more particularly who are most tender and edifying, and by whose labour amongst the people, their Lord and Master, who sent them, sees of the travail of his soul, and is satisfied, that they, as the ministers of Satan, set themselves. Very fit messengers of Satan are they, if any were caught up to the third heaven, to buffet him. I appeal in this matter to the experience and observation of all who take notice of their way; and how little they trouble others, their master fearing little, or finding little damage to his dominion and kingdom, by these lazy ly-bies and idle loiterers.
Let this short hint of that unhallowed generation put us, not only to weep to see what a dominion Satan hath obtained over such poor unsettled souls, who every day wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived; but also, to study more caution and circumspection in our way for the future, and that in order both to our own preservation, that that wicked one touch us not, nor have access to tumble us headlong in this gulf,and also in order to the recovery (if it be possible) of some at least of those out of this snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his pleasure. Let all who would be saved themselves, or would not become a snare to others, by emboldening them by their example to converse to their perdition with such deceivers, save themselves, and stand aloof from this generation, that they may be saved.
It may and ought to be remembered, and regretted by all of us, that when Satan first set up by these proxies, and appeared in this disguise to act upon the stage, he gained not a little at his first assault, by our contempt and security. For every one thought the devil was turned dunce, and had played the wrong card, and failed in his politicks, in falling upon the least probably taking way that ever he had yet attempted, how either to promove his own kingdom of darkness, or oppose the coming of the kingdom of the Son of God, in so clear a day of the gospel's shining brightness. And therefore, however men were amazed at the appearance of such a monster (and the more they were amazed at its size and shape, the more they thought themselves exempted from all care, to trouble themselves in telling the world that it was such, and whence it came, and whether it went; it was taken by the most discerning for granted, that the devil intended this piece of ridiculous pageantry, only for an interlude, that so, while we were gazing and mocking, he might fill the stage with Rome's abominations: and the more judicious cannot but discern, how the devil, in this dress, hath had the assistance of his old cabal the conclave; and by the brimstone which issue out of their mouths, wherewith so many are killed, they may well be judged to make up one of Abaddon's legions) yet it was put out of doubt with most, that the Christian world, especially these churches, which had enjoyed so fair a day, and had been in a manner the valley of vision, could not be cheated into a liking of this hell-black compound of all the most damnable heresies; and judged, that there was but little reason to fear that Satan should prevail much, or make any notable inroads upon the chuch, while he appeared so like himself; yea, it was thought impossible that any who had but the use of his reason, much less any who professed religion, could be bewitched and proselyted into a way which seemed to carry its own antidote with it, because its poison was so palpable, and Satan had been at so little pains to busk this hook, or hide his malice, in deigning to murder as many as should swallow this soup.
Nay, some were puffed up, and tushed at the fear of others, instead of being deeply affected, to see what spiritual judgments and plagues we were thereby threatened with, and like to be poured forth upon a people, who had walked so unsuitable to that degree of glorious Gospel light which had shined amongst us: But, alas! it is our folly to think that Satan plays the fool always when he puts on hood and bells; for he perceiving the temper and untenderness of many high pretenders, who had not received the truth in love, and perceiving how, in place of pure religion and undefiled before God, a giddy gaudiness was entertained, as the badge of a progressive knowledge, and looked upon as an high attainment: Satan, I say, observing the propension of many to turn away their ears from the solid substantial and saving truths of the Gospel, and how ready they were to be turned into fables, appears in this dress; and when men in their gaudy giddiness came to gaze, when they ought to have looked on with the tear in their eye; all on a sudden, he opens this sluice of hell upon them, and spues this flood out of his mouth after the woman, who had brought forth the man-child of reformation (by which he was enraged, because thereby cast unto the earth) that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. Oh, if this day we could remember our faults, and weep over our folly, who carried in that day, as if ignorant of Satan's devices! For though we ourselves had been some way secured against his success in this garb and shape, after the light had shined in such a meridian brightness amongst us; yet it became us to have been deeply affected at this dismal appearance, lest the rumour of the rise of such a generation, after so much endeavour to reform the church, should have given Satan the advantage of creating such a prejudice against all for reformation in other churches, as that they, upon hearing what giddiness and prodigious delusions some were delivered over unto, in a church of these endeavours, might abandon all essays that way, and bless themselves in a supine neglect of what is yet unquestionably their duty.
But that which gave Satan the greatest advantage of all, was this, that most men at first did (and not a few continue to do so to this day) out of a kind of foolish pity, look upon them as a well-meaning kind of harmless, though half-hillocked persons, and therefore conversed with them, without all fear or apprehended necessity of fearing a being infected with that leprosy which was got up into their head, and for which they should have been put out of the camp of the Israel of God, as utterly unclean.
And hence it came to pass, that he who in disdain and contempt of that snare, said to-day, Am I a dog to do this great evil? began to bark with them to-morrow, at the Sun of righteousness, and all the healing that is under his wings, and to belch forth blasphemies against the way and word of God. Let no man therefore wonder at Satan's success under this shape, or at the spreading of this contagious leprosy; nay, let him conclude without a peradven-ture, that it will certainly spread further, if the course so proper to preserve ourselves and cure them, prescribed by our blessed Lord, the great Physician of his church, be not followed. Let them therefore be shunned, that they may be ashamed, when they find themselves stink in the nostrils of all who favour the things of God, and shut out from all who are called by his precious name, as persons bearing and branded with another name and mark.
Let no man who would not expose himself to the snare of the devil, and harden them to destruction, listen unto them, receive them into his house, or carry any otherwise towards them than towards Satan's agents and angels, who are so known by their talk and tokens, that scarce can it be said they transform themselves into angels of light, that they may with the greater facility promove the kingdom of darkness.
Let me therefore beseech, and obtest all the fearers of God, to whose hands these lines shall come, by their love to him, by their longing after the coming of Christ's kingdom, and their desires of the earth's being filled with the knowledge of his glory, as the waters cover the sea, by the love they have to their own immortal souls, and the salvation of the present generation and posterity: Yea, let me make bold to charge them, in the name and authority of the great God, and our Lord Jesus Christ, and by their dreadful appearance before him, and as ever they expect to be admitted to Christ's company, and find a place amongst them who are saved and washed in his blood, and made kings and priests unto God, and his Father, make more conscience henceforth of abstaining from all converse, beyond the unpleasant constraint of pure necessity, with this race of the most degenerate brood, and desperate enemies to the true foundation-principles of salvation, that ever hell yet hatched, or Satan set on work, to counter-work and obstruct the progress of the gospel. The adequate remedy, it is true, is not in the hand of every, nor any private Christian; but God hath put this plaister into every man's hand, and hath made it easy for him to apply it, while other remedies are not within his reach, whereby he may, thro' grace, preserve himself unpolluted, and pure from the plague of the spreading contagion, yea, and possibly recover some of them: let him but in compliance with the will of God, discountenance these traders and traffickers for Satan, and let him shun all converse with them. Enter not into the path