5. Hence it is that to this day _the Scribes and Pharisees_, the men who have the form but not the power of religion, and who are generally wise in their own eyes, and righteous in their own conceits; _hearing these things are offended_: are deeply offended, when we speak of the religion of the heart, and particularly when we shew, that without this, were we to _give all our goods to feed the poor_, it would profit us nothing. But offended they must be: for we cannot but speak the truth as it is in Jesus. It is our part, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, to deliver our own soul. All that is written in the book of God we are to declare, not as pleasing men, but the Lord. We are to declare not only all the promises, but all the threatnings too which we find therein. At the same time that we proclaim all the blessings and privileges, which God hath prepared for his children, we are likewise to _teach all the things, whatsoever he hath commanded_. And we know, that all these have their use; either for the awakening those that sleep, the instructing the ignorant, the comforting the feeble-minded, or the building up and perfecting of the saints. We know that _all scripture, given by inspiration of God, is profitable_ either _for doctrine_, or _for reproof_, either _for correction_ or _for instruction in righteousness_: and _that the man of God_, in the process of the work of God in his soul, has need of every part thereof, that he _may at length be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works_.