CHAP. IV.
Shewing the Marks of the Vnconverted.
WHile we keep aloof in generals, there is little fruit to be expected. It is the hand fight, that does execution. David is not awakened by the Prophets hovering at a di∣stance, in parabolical insinuations: he is forced to close with him, and tell him home, Thou art the man. Few will in words deny the necessity of the new birth; but they have a self-delu∣ding confidence, that the work is not now to do. And because they know themselves free from that gross hypocrisie, that doth take up Religion meerly for a colour to deceive others, and for the covering of wicked designs, they are confident of their sincerity, and suspect not that more close hypocrisie (where the greatest