"How durst you venture bold guests to enter in such a sordid hue, Amongst my guests unto those Feasts that were not made for you? How durst you eat for spir'tual meat your bane, and drink damnation, Whilst by your guile you render'd vile so rare and great Salvation? LXXIX. [Sidenote: Mat. 6:21, 24. Rom. 1:25.] "Your fancies fed on heav'nly Bread, your hearts fed on some Lust; You lov'd the Creature more than th' Creator, your souls clove to the dust. And think you by Hypocrisy, and cloakéd Wickedness, To enter in laden with sin, to lasting Happiness? LXXX. [Sidenote: 1 Cor. 11:27, 29.] "This your excuse shews your abuse of things ordain'd for good, And doth declare you guilty are of my dear Flesh and Blood. Wherefore those Seals and precious Meals you put so much upon As things Divine, they Seal and Sign you to Perditi-on." LXXXI. [Sidenote: Another sort of Hypocrites make their pleas.] Then forth issue another Crew (those being silencéd), Who drawing nigh to the Most High, adventure thus to plead: "We sinners were," say they, "'tis clear, deserving condemnation; But did not we rely on thee, O Christ, for whole Salvation? LXXXII. [Sidenote: Acts 8:13. Isa. 58:2, 3. Heb. 6:4, 5.] "We did believe, and oft receive thy gracious Promises; We took great care to get a share in endless Happiness. We pray'd and wept, and Fast-days kept, lewd ways we did eschew; We joyful were thy Word to hear; we form'd our lives anew. LXXXIII. [Sidenote: 2 Pet. 2:20.] "We thought our sin had pardon'd been, that our Estate was good, Our debts all paid, our peace well made, our Souls wash'd with thy Blood. Lord, why dost though reject us now, who have not thee rejected, Nor utterly true sanctity and holy life neglected?" LXXXIV. [Sidenote: The Judge uncaseth them. John 2:24, 25.] The Judge incens'd at their pretens'd self-vaunting Piety, With such a look as trembling strook unto them made reply: "O impudent, impenitent, and guileful generation! Think you that I cannot descry your hearts' abomination? LXXXV. [Sidenote: John 6:64. Psal. 50:16. Mat. 15:26.] "You nor receiv'd, nor yet believ'd my Promises of Grace, Nor were you wise enough to prize my reconciléd Face; But I presume that to assume which was not yours to take, And challengéd the Children's Bread, yet would not sin forsake. LXXXVI. [Sidenote: Rev. 3:17. Mat. 13:20.] "Being too bold you laid fast hold where int'rest you had none, Yourselves deceiving by your believing, all which you might have known. You ran away but ran astray with Gospel Promises, And perishéd, being still dead in sins and trespasses. LXXXVII. [Sidenote: Mat. 6:2, 4, 24. Jer. 8:5, 6, 7, 8.]