Pretence of Leading Out of Formality

View in Source Document Therefore lend not your Ears, (I beseech you) unto that in any, or in your selves, that would (under pretence of Formality in Times and Places) draw you aside, from the good and blessed Testimony of Assembling your selves together, to wait upon your God; and what there is in any of you that would not condescend unto each other as Brethren, is not of the nature of the true Birth, but must by it be subdued: And as that ariseth and prevails in and among you, so will you again feel the Lord Ministring to his own in you, and your Eyes will be open to see the Wiles of our subtle Adversary more clearly; who though he may appear masked, with a shew of more Holiness, with a Promise of further Glory, higher Dispensations, new Discoveries, yea, and with a Pretence of leading out of Formality into the Power; and many such Baits and Snares. Yet my Dearly Beloved, beware of such Pretence, for he comes but to bring you dis-esteem of what you have received, and to draw forth the Expectation after something else; that so you might be robbed and spoiled of your Portion …