Behold you here then, good reader, a glorious Latitudinarian, that
can, as to religion, turn and twist like an eel on the hook; or
rather like the weathercock that stands on the steeple.
CHANGING SINS.
Dost thou profess the name of Christ, and dost thou pretend to be a
man departing from iniquity? Then take sufficiency of divine
revelation before human reason and speculation, and to acknowledge
with humble gratitude the rich rewards of an earnest and prayerful
study of the English Scriptures. heed thou dost not deceive thyself,
by changing one bad way of sinning for another bad way of sinning.
This was a trick that Israel played of old; for when God's prophets
followed them hard with demands of repentance and reformation, then
they would "gad about to change their ways." Jer. 2: 36. But behold,
they would not change a bad way for a good, but one bad way for
another; hopping as the squirrel from bough to bough, but not
willing to forsake the tree. Many times men change their darling
sins, as some change their servants; that which would serve for such
a one this year, may not serve for the year ensuing. Hypocrisy would
do awhile ago, but now debauchery. Profaneness would do when
profaneness was in fashion, but now a deceitful profession.
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