The Wretchedness of living in a Wavering State of Mind. Set forth in a SERMON Preached at the ROLLS Chapel. December 4, 1698. U 3 295 The Wretchedness of a wavering Mind. A SERMON Preached at the ROLLS Chapel. GEN. xlix. 4. Unftable as Water, thou shalt not HESE are Part of the SERM. eldest of these (Reuben) the Character SERM. he gives is contained in the Words I XI. have read to you; of which there are feveral very different Interpretations. I fhall not trouble you with them, but take that, which they do most naturally and obviously bear. And according to that, Jacob does in these Words feem to represent Reuben to be of a fickle, uncertain, irrefolute Temper; not utterly void of all Propenfions to Goodness, but incapable of acting up to them; not without honeft and virtuous Refolutions, but unable firmly to keep and practise them. And this being his Cafe, he pronounces upon him, that he Shall not excel. That is, that he fhall never arrive to any Pitch and Perfection in Virtue, nor ever command a theroughEfteem and Refpect from good Men; that he fhould never be able eminently to distinguish himself by the Exercife of those good Qualities of Mind, which procure Honour and Happiness to Men in this World, and in another.Unftable as Water, thou shalt not excel. From |