and obscure profession, take heed of that root of bitterness that is in you, for your own sakes, but let it not spring forth for others sakes. If it be kept within you, and wither not, you loose your own souls: If it spring forth without, and defile many, Heb. 12. 15. you ruin others. Satans Kingdome is too much in Christs. Perditi spiri∣tus, solatium perditionis suae pedendis ho∣minibus ope∣rantur. The visible subjects of Christs kingdom too much promote Sa∣tan work, the damnation of soules. 'Tis the solace of lost Apo∣state spirits, to increase fellows in destruction. If they be capa∣ble of any feliity, 'tis in others everlasting misery. We read of heaps upon heaps, the bloody ork of Sampsons body-slaughter, Judg. 15. 16. So heaps upon heaps is the bloody businesse of the Ʋtinam soli errare, soli desi∣pere vellent: Alios etiam in consortium sui mali rapiunt, quasi habituri solatium de per∣ditione mul∣torum. Lact. l. 5. c. 20 Devils soul-slaughter. He goeth about seeking whom he may de∣vour. And loose destroying instances promote his work. The wish of one concerning professed seducing Heathens may be used concerning professed seduced Christians, O that their error were solitary, they were foolish alone, but they draw others into the fellowship of their sin, as if society were the solace of destructi∣on. The huge fellowship of the damned will be no diminution but aggravation of their torments.SECT. 18.3. TEmptation too sadly and commonly effectual to abuse 18 Scanda∣lous sinnes of good Christi∣ans are tem∣ptations to abuse Grace. Gods grace, is the scandalous sinnes of good Christians in the main, orderly, and upright, in some things irregular and hy∣pocritical: their Falls are too often the plea of sin, and used by Satan as the protection. The old man is a loose Libertine, where ever he is, the new creature is not perfect. Spiritual soundnesse is not without some grudgings of the old distempers: A most eminent servant of God said, in his flesh he served the Law of sin, Rom. 7. 25. The flesh will be insolent and unruly in the spiritual part. Hence there are Scripture records of loose practi∣ses in good men. We read of Abrahams equivocation, Jacobs dissembling, Davids infamous uncleanness and murder, Jonahs pettish passion, Peters denyal of Christ, aggravated by repetition, swearing, perjury. The Corinthians spiritual pride and division, and some carnal acrimony and bitterness of thought and lan∣guage between Paul and Barnabas. So the present age, to the deforming dishonour of reforming endeavours, hath too much 0