your lives according to your profession. Better never profess,
than to make profession a stalking-horse to sin, Deceit, to the
Devil, and Hell.

The ground and rules of Religion allow not any such thing: Receive
us, says the Apostle, we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no
man, we have defrauded no man. {104b} Intimating, that those that
are guilty of wronging, corrupting or defrauding of any, should not
be admitted to the fellowship of Saints, no nor into the common
catalogue of Brethren with them.

Nor can men with all their Rhetorick, and Eloquent speaking prove
themselves fit for the Kingdom of Heaven, or men of good conscience
on earth. {104c} O that godly plea of Samuel: Behold here I am,
says he, witness against me, before the Lord, and before his
Anointed, whose Oxe have I taken, or whose Ass have I taken, or
whom have I defrauded, whom have I oppressed, {104d} &c? This was
to do like a man of good conscience indeed. And in this his
Appeal, he was so justified in the consciencies of the whole
Congregation, that they could not but with one voice, as with one
mouth, break out joyntly and say, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor
oppressed us. {104e}

A Professor, and defraud, away with him! a Professor should not owe
any man any thing, but love. A professor should provide things,
not of other mens, but of his own, of his own honest getting, and
that not onely in the sight of God, but of all men; that he may
adorn the Doctrine if God our Saviour in all things.

Atten. But {105a} suppose God should blow upon a Professor in his