5. Yet as clearly as he had declared this, as frequently as he had repeated, That none who have not this kingdom of God within them, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: our Lord well knew, that many would not receive this saying, and therefore confirms it yet again: _Many_, (saith he; not one; not a few only; it is not a rare or an uncommon case) _shall say unto me in that day_: not only, we have said many prayers; we have spoken thy praise; we have refrained from evil; we have exercised ourselves in doing good: but what is abundantly more than this, _We have prophesied in thy name. In thy name have we cast out devils; in thy name done many wonderful works. We have prophesied_: we have declared thy will to mankind; we have shewed sinners the way to peace and glory. And we have done this, _in thy name_, according to the truth of thy gospel. Yea, and by thy authority, who didst confirm the word, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. For _in_ or _by thy name_, by the power of thy word and of thy Spirit, _have we cast out devils_; out of the souls which they had long claimed as their own, and whereof they had full and quiet possession. _And in thy name_, by thy power, not our own, _have we done many wonderful works_: insomuch that even _the dead heard the voice of the Son of God_ speaking by us, and lived. _And then will I profess_ even _unto them, I never knew you_: no, not then, when you were _casting out devils in my name_. Even then I did not know you as my own: for your heart was not right toward God. Ye were not yourselves meek and lowly, ye were not lovers of God and of all mankind: ye were not renewed in the image of God. Ye were not holy as I am holy. _Depart from me, ye_ who notwithstanding all this, are _workers of iniquity_; ἀνομία. Ye are transgressors of my law, my law of holy and perfect love. 6. It is to put this beyond all possibility of contradiction, that our Lord confirms it by that apposite comparison. _Every one_, saith he, _who heareth these sayings of mine and doth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house_: as they will surely do, sooner or later, upon every soul of man; even the floods of outward affliction, or inward temptation; the storms of pride, anger, fear or desire. _And it fell and great was the fall of it_: so that it perished for ever and ever. Such must be the portion of all, who rest in any thing short of that religion which is above described. And the _greater_ will their _fall_ be, because they _heard those sayings, and_ yet _did them not_.