2ly. An Hypocrite cannot resist the sin of Hypocrisie, and other darling sins: but a child of God with David (Psal: 139.) begs of God to search him, that is to help him against Hypocrisie it self, and every false way, and to lead him in the way everlasting.
A true childe of God tender of Gods name.
Sixtly, a child of God though overwhelmed with many weaknesses or temptations, yet he cannot possibly be brought to an ill opinion or thought of God, but is always ready to take his part, to speak well of him, and endures not, with a quiet mind, to hear his name dishonored: Hence Job in his great passions and cursings, could not be brought (no not by his wife) to speak ill of God: but although he complained much of his own affliction, and stood to his uprightness, against the charge of Hypocrisie, yet still he magnifies the name of his God in all his discourses, and professeth to trust in him, although his God should kill him.
Instances of Samson and Jehosaphat.
Hence Samson, though carried away first by a Philistian wife, and then by a Philistian whore, yet can he not be carried away so from the God of Israel, but that still he acknowledgeth his high and holy hand in his victories and deliverances, and accordingly poures forth his soul to him for grace and assistance. And hence good Jehosaphat though very strongly carried away with the flatterie of the idolatrous King of Israel, yet he endures not to hear the name of his God smitten through the sides of his servant the Prophet Micaiah, but plainly (though weakly) takes part with his God and his Prophet, against the King of Israel, and all his Priests and Courtiers, saying, Let not the King say so.
Obj. May not Balaam and other hypocrites pretend the name of God and Christ, be preachers of him, call out devils, and in Christs name do many wonderfull things?
I answer: Hypocrites use the name of God onely as Jehu did, for a stirrup to get up into the sadle of their own Names and Honours, or as a commodity to get something by it, as an hireling (of whom the Lord Jesus speaks John 10.) that serves God for wages, and while he cries, let the Lord be glorified, (Isa. 66.) he persecutes his servants, but a child of God cannot be brought except by surprisall for a time, to prefer his name before Gods, but upon cool thoughts, is seriously willing to be trodden in the dust, and to be cast out, that the name of God alone may be exalted, and glorified, as David after the causing of the name of God to be blasphemed.
A true childe of God is patient under the rod of his Heavenly Father.
A 7th. Argument of the true life of grace (though in much weaknes or sicknes,) I observe to be an humble acknowledgment of, and a submitting unto the correcting and afflicting hand of God, in sicknesses, crosses, losses, &c.
This admirably appears in old Ely, who though he were a bad Father to his own sons, in suffering them unpunished (though not unreproved) in their outragious transgressions: Yet was he at the same time a good son to God, his heavenly Father, in giving that heavenly and submissive answer to that fearfull threatening sent from the Lord by Samuel against him, saying, It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good.