A caveat to all true Christians: against the spreadings of the spirit of Antichrist, and his subtile endeavours to draw men from Jesus Christ / propounded to them by J. Horn, one of the unworthiest of Christs servants in his gospel, a preacher thereof in South Lin, Norfolk ; together with some brief directions for their orderly walkings.

Sect. 2. Exhortations to holy walking toward God.

WAlk worthy of the call wherewith God hath called you, Ephes. 4.1. God hath called you to be Saints; walk then as Saints, that is; 1. Holily towards Him, and that in

1. Giving thanks unto him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light, delivered you from the power of darkness, and translated you into the Kingdom of his dear Son, Col. 1.13,14. and given you wisdom, righreousness, ho∣liness, and redemption in him: Yea, thankfully rejoyce in him the Father who hath done this for you; and thereby made you meete to partake of the inheritance of the Saints in light, by not onely giving his Son for you, when sinners, but also propounding him to you in, and calling you to him by the Gospel, when ignorant and out of the way; who also hath inriched and bles∣sed you with all spiritual blessings in Christ; even with whatever makes either for defence and safety; or for fruitfulness, or eternal satisfaction. Rejoyce also in Christ Jesus, and count him worthy to receive praise, and glory, and thanks∣giving: seeing he hath loved and given himself for you, yea and washt you in his blond, Gal. 2.20. through the force and power of it, cleansing your consciences, and redeeming you from the earth and

men, Rev. 1.5. Heb. 9.14. Rev. 14.4. Seeing also he as the great High Priest mediateth the New Covenant for you, that ye might be saved to the utmost through him, be presented blameless to the Father by, and in him, and receive the pro∣mised possession; and do this in the Spirit of Truth and holiness sent forth from the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus unto you, and working in you to sanctifie you to be a pure of∣fering unto God and the Father in him. Be glad I say in this thankfulness, and sing forth his Frai∣ses. Joy is comely for the Saints and righteous, for, and unto whom God in Christ hath done so much; there is cause of joy in Christ for all people, but chiefly for the Saints that are parti∣cularly his people; Let Israel rojoyce in him that made him, Psal. 149.2. (the Saints in God who hath given them not onely a natural being, but also new created them in Christ Jesus to good works, that he might be glorified in them) And let the children of Sion (the sons of Grace that have their birth of the Gospel and Promise held forth therein) be joyful in (Jesus Christ) their King; Let his praises be in your mouth, and the high acts of God in your songs, as those that are spiritually favoured by him. Cast down your crowns before him; let no mention be made of any acts or worth of yours; any righteousness or salvation of your working; but remember his

continually, and his onely; verily so much as we take to our selves, and lift up our selves, so much we detract from, and are unthankful unto him; no part of his grace is, or was due desert to any of us; for then it should not have been grace but debt to us; what ever we have done thats good, we are beholding to him for it: for he first prevented us, inabled us, and incited us thereunto; and yet what we have so done, de∣served not in any way what he hath done for, and to us; you have heard him: but can you glory in your selves for it? his Word prevented you, or else you had not heard; his Word drew forth attention, or else it had been otherwise with you; and alas, how much have ye refused to hear him in? and yet what ye have heard from him he hath made effectual to your believing; what praise is due to a Begger from a Prince for hearing him direct him to some large trea∣sure? what thanks rather is due to that Prince from such a begger for speaking such things to him? and how much more for bringing him to what he by speaking of to him, perswaded him to look after, and accept of from him? Our hearing of the Word as it hath been de∣fective in us, so had it been never so perfect, could be no meriting cause of Gods inriching or saving of us. All our whole inheritance and portion, is of him and his free grace; and so is

the bringing and intitling to it; let the praise thereof then be wholly given to him; and in so doing we shall walke in lowliness of minde, as we are exhorted, Ephe. 4.1. and not proudly lift up our selves, as having some worth of our own in us, to commend us by before him.

2. Love the Lord ye Saints, Psal. 31.23. for what now doth the Lord our God require of us? but to love and cleave to him for his love to us: and this is a genuine expression of real thank∣fulness, and comprehends in it all expressions of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and produces all thats returnable to God by us; My Son, give me thy heart, Pro. 23.26 (saith he) thy heart, that is, thy love, affection, delight. He that loves another, gives him so much of his ••eart as he hath real love to him; not love in ••ord and tongue, but heart love doth God re∣quire; and where that is, the eye will follow, as ••he look thereof may be also both a mean to produce it, and to nourish it; and therefore he adds, And let thine eye observe my wayes. Its a vain thing to give thine eye without thine heart; they see little or nothing when the heart is bu∣sied another way, and not intentive to minde what thou beholdest with thine eye; and where the eye is withdrawn from Gods wayes, and espyes beauty in some other things, the heart will be soon corrupted also; therefore God calls for both: for the heart first as the principal, and

then for the eye as the consequent of the hearts love, and as a means to bring on, & nourish it in love. He hath given thee his Son, and in him re∣ceived by thee thou hast his heart; for the Father himself loves you because ye have loved me (saith Christ) and have believed that I came out from him, Joh 16, 27. thou art beloved by him in his beloved one: and what a good exchange is this to have Gods heart for thine•• to give him thy heart, and receive his? what a low requital is this for Gods heart, that man give up to God his heart? and yet this is the greatest man can give, and the greatest that God requires: And this is no other thing but what his love and heart discovered to us draws back again from us, and leads us to return: but because He sees that there are other suiters for it, he is the more watchful over us, and promps us in that his Grace requires by his written Word too, and calls us to a more wist and earnest view and con∣sideration or him in all his wayes towards us; and of all his wayes prescribed by him for our walking before him. Looking, we say, begets lo∣ving, and love begets looking again, and so there is a mutual intercourse of heart and eye, give him thine heart, and then thine eye will the readilier follow; give him thine eye, and let that observe his Paths, and so shall thine heart be preserved chast with him too: Consider and mind his love

to thee in Christ in his gift of him, and cost he was at there for thee; the way he took to buy and sanctifie thee to himself; and that will break thy heart, and make thee willing that he should have it, that gave so much of his to thee for it. Its mens being taken with other beauties, and so looking off from his, that makes them slack in their love toward him. Remember how thou hast heard and learnt, and repent, and do thy first works, says he therfore to some who had lost their first love, Rev. 2.3. thats the way to recover their love again; to call to mind how they have heard and learnt of him; and if that be the way to recover love when lost; then sure its the way too, to pre∣serve it before it be lost, that it may not be lost.

Cleave then to him and his wayes with full purpose of heart, and take heed that thou never deniest him that bought thee: for that would be a most unloving and ungrateful part of thee: Worship none but God in Christ, in whom he hath loved thee, and in the Spirit he hath given thee: own no other name or object of confi∣dence, delight, and satisfaction. Follow not af∣ter other lovers; and especially if thou wouldst have thine heart intire with him, beware of two Corrivals especially that will sollicite thee. 1. The world in its objects of profit, honor, plea∣sure, &c. let not thine eye look too wistly on its beauty, lest thou lust after it, for it will deceive thee. And 2. The spirit of error presenting

another name and doctrine then that once deli∣vered to the Saints, and promising greater li∣berties and advantages and spiritual glory to thee; for (as) both of them (so especially this latter) may be, and are in Scripture compared to a whorish woman, James 4 4. Rev. 17.5. And a whore is a deep ditch, and a strange wo∣man is as a narrow pit, Prov. 23.27. If thou fallest into her, she will surely drown thee. They that will be rich, and that make themselves friends to the world in its pleasures, and satisfactions here, ingage God against themselves, 1 Tim 6 9. and plunge themselves into snares and temptations, and so drown themselves in destruction and per∣dition; and they that have itching ears after Fa∣bles, and doctrines of devils, & take not heed to the Apostolical Doctrine, lose themselves in them, being so infatuated through the strength of them, that they arrive at last too at damnation, by denying the Lord that bought them, 2 Thes. 2.10,11,12. 2 Pet. 2.1. For few or none that go in∣to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life, Prov. 2.19.

Take heed therefore to your selves, and be∣ware of this spiritual adultery; let not thine heart desire to eat their dainties; for though they may say stoln waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant, yet know thou, that the dead are there and their ghests in the depth of hell, Prov. 9 17,18. Look thou then right forward to

the things that God sets before thee in Christ, and let not thine heart depart from him. Desire more to know him, and to enjoy his presence and fellowship with him, and seek it not in thine own way but in his; and when thou findest him, ••old him fast, and delight thy self in him, and ••ever let his Truth depart from thee, but let ••hy meditation ••t all times be sweet concerning ••im, and thy desight day and night in his Law and Doctrine.

3. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and •…•…an not to thine own understanding, Pro. 3 5. He ••s worthy to bedepended on, and trusted in at ••ll times, and in all things for this life, and that ••o come, for teaching, strengthning, directing, •…•…pporting, supplying, comforting, saving, For 〈◊〉〈◊〉 him the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength, •…•…i. 26.4. So that there is nothing too hard or •…•…fficult for him to do that may concern thy welfare; nor is there any unrighteousness, or un∣faithfulness in him, Psal. 92.15. He hath so richly ••nd abundantly already prevented us with his ••ove and mercy, and given us so to behold his righteousness displayed in his Gospel, as may challenge our most stedfast confidence in him, and dependance on him for the performance of ••ll that further favour and mercy that is needful ••nd good for us, and is promised by him. Hath ••e not given his Son for us according to his an∣••ient saying, by the mouth of his holy Prophets;

ye a, hath he not also called and brought us to his Son, and given us him to be ours, our lot, our portion, our Prince, and Captain of salvation, our High Priest and Advocate, &c. and shall we not trust in him then for other things? shall he not with him give us all things else that he hath spoken of and provided in him?

O hope we then in him at all times, and in this hope pour out our hearts before him; for he is a refuge for us, and will not fail us. He that hath made us Saints, will not be wanting to give us a Saints portion. But lean we not to our un∣derstandings; for he that trusts his heart is a fool, Prov. 28.26. for its so deceitful and desperately wicked that it will deceive him, Jer. 17.9. His Word is sure, and worthy to be taken; but our own wisdom, with the conceptions thereof are foolishness, and tend to ruine; and who so trusts in any thing else below God, a curse will befall him. Jer. 17 5,6.

4. In this love of him, and trusting in him, yield up thy self also unto him to be his to do his work; mind his Name and Glory, that he may be known, loved, and his Kingdom inlarged: give up thy heart to him to be the habitation of his Holiness by his Spirit, not the habitation of sin, lust, pride, vanity, Satan &c. but the temple of the holy Ghost, that he may dwell there, and subdue, and mortifie thy lusts and corruptions in and for thee, and quicken thee up to God to

••alk before him holily, and yield up all thy members also to be instruments of working righteousness unto his glory. Whatsoever thou ••ost in word or in deed, do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus, with an eye to him, and as there∣to warranted by him, and to the praise of the grace of God in him. This is love that we keep ••is Commandments, and his Commandments are ••ot grievous, 1 Joh. 5.3. I might inlarge unto many particulars, which for brevities sake I shall •…•…ss over, and leave thee for further direction to the word of Gods Grace, and to the Apostles writings.