Nay, who dares repel one of the greatest men in his parish from the Lord’s table? Even tho’ he be a drunkard or a common swearer? Yea tho’ he openly deny the Lord that bought him? Mr. _Stonhouse did_ this once. But what was the event? The gentleman brought an action against him, for the terror of all such insolent fellows, in succeeding times. 33. O my brethren, is it not for want of your making this difference, as well as for many other abominations that with regard to some among us, (how many God knoweth) that scripture is now also fulfilled. _His watchmen are blind, they are ignorant, they are shepherds that cannot understand.――The Lord hath poured out upon them the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed their eyes; the prophets and the seers hath he covered. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed._ If you ask what those other abominations are? I will speak, in love and in the spirit of meekness. There are found among us _covetous_ men, men _who mind earthly things_, who _seek themselves_ and not Christ crucified, who _love the world, and the things of the world_: men in whom these words are still fulfilled, _Who is there among you that would shut the doors for nought? Neither do ye kindle fire on my altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you saith the Lord of hosts_. Yea, are there not those at this day, (O that I might be found to fear where no fear is!) who _make themselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel_? Are there not those, who now _enlarge their desire as hell, who are as death and cannot be satisfied_? Who, though they want neither food to eat nor raiment to put on, yet seek more and more _preferment_? Who are continually studying to _join house to house, and to lay field to field_? To grow rich in the service of that Master, who himself _had not where to lay his head_? Is it not to these that those dreadful words belong, enough to cause the ears of him that heareth to tingle, _They are greedy dogs which never can have enough; they all look to their own way_, (not the way of their Lord) _every one for his gain, from his quarter_.