needs go fee it; I have bought a Yoke of Oxen, and must needs go prove them; I have married a Wife, I am engaged in an eager Pursuit after the Luft of the Eye, and the Pride of Life, and therefore cannot come.-Do not fear having your Name caft out as Evil, or being accounted a Fool for Chrift's Sake- -Yet a little while, and you fhall fhine like the Stars in the Firmament for ever.---Only believe, and Jefus Chrift fhall be to you Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and eternal Redemption.---Your Bodies fhall be fashioned like unto his glorious Body, and your Souls fall into all the Fulness of God. Which may God of his infinite Mercy grant through Jefus Chrift; to whom, with thee, O Father, and thee, O Holy Ghoft, three Perfons, and one God, be afcribed, as is most due, all Power, Might, Majefty, and Dominion, now, and for evermore. Amen, Amen. The Folly and Danger of being Not Righteous enough, as well as of being Righteous over-much. A SERMON Preached at Kennington-Common, Moorfields, and From Ecclefiaftes vii. 16. WHEREIN Dr. TRAPP'S DISCOURSES from the fame Words (as well as the polite Entertainments of the Age) are confider'd, and prov'd to be inconfiftent with true Chritianity. THE PREFACE. THE HE following Difcourfe is a true Copy of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield's Sermon on Ecclef. vii. 16. (preached at Blackheath, Moorfields, and Kennington) as it was taken from the Author's own Mouth by a Person well versed in Short-band; which having been shewn to several of the Auditors, and Admirers of that Performance, being convinced that it was ge-. nuine, as they had received from it great spiritual Benefit, they expreffed an ardent Defire to have it made publick, for the Good of Mankind in general. The Editor, at length, prevailed on by their Importunity, to comply with their Request, could have heartily wished to have fent it into the World by Mr. Hutton, the Author's Bookfeller; but that Gentleman retiring from Bufinefs, and the prefent Manager of bis Affairs refufing to be concerned in any of Mr. L12 White Whitefield's Pieces, it became inevitably neceffary to commit the Difpofal of it to other Hands. If it be faid, that it should, in justice to the Author, bave been fubmitted to his Perufal, before its Publication; it will be fufficient to reply, that the Author's fudden Embarquement rendered his Revifal altogether impracticable, which would otherwife have been follicited, together with his exprefs Approbation. However, as all who have seen this Copy have declared their entire Satisfaction, as to its being authentick, fo the Editor flatters himself, that no impartial Reader, at leaft if he was a Hearer of it, or be acquainted with Mr. Whitefield's Style or Manner of Writing, will find any room to fufpect it; but, on the contrary, approve it as a faithful, genuine Difcourfe. And as the Author's Defign, in this Sermon, is to recommend Spiritual Religion, and vindicate it from the Attacks of the modern Pharifees; so that it, and all his other Tracts, as well as his indefatigable Labours abroad, may be crowned with abundant Succefs, to the Glory of God, and the Enlargement of the Walls of his Sion, is the bearty Prayer of the EDITOR. |