1.  His turning thee out of the way. 2.  His labouring to render the cross odious to thee.  And, 3.  His setting thy feet in that way that leadeth unto the administration of death.

{54} First, Thou must abhor his turning thee out of the way; and thine own consenting thereunto:  because this is to reject the counsel of God for the sake of the counsel of a Worldly Wiseman.  The Lord says, “Strive to enter in at the strait gate” [Luke 13:24], the gate to which I sent thee; for “strait is the gate that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” [Matt. 7:14] From this little wicket-gate, and from the way thereto, hath this wicked man turned thee, to the bringing of thee almost to destruction; hate, therefore, his turning thee out of the way, and abhor thyself for hearkening to him.

{55} Secondly, Thou must abhor his labouring to render the cross odious unto thee; for thou art to prefer it “before the treasures in Egypt.” [Heb. 11:25,26] Besides the King of glory hath told thee, that he that “will save his life shall lose it.” [Mark 8:35; John 12:25; Matt. 10:39] And, “He that cometh after me, and hateth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” [Luke 14:26] I say, therefore, for man to labour to persuade thee, that that shall be thy death, without which, the truth hath said, thou canst not have eternal life; this doctrine thou must abhor.

{56} Thirdly, Thou must hate his setting of thy feet in the way that leadeth to the ministration of death.  And for this thou must consider to whom he sent thee, and also how unable that person was to deliver thee from thy burden.

{57} He to whom thou wast sent for ease, being by name Legality, is the son of the bond-woman which now is, and is in bondage with her children [Gal 4:21-27]; and is, in a mystery, this Mount Sinai, which thou hast feared will fall on thy head.  Now, if she, with her children, are in bondage, how canst thou expect by them to be made free?  This Legality, therefore, is not able to set thee free from thy burden.  No man was as yet ever rid of his burden by him; no, nor ever is like to be:  ye cannot be justified by the works of the law; for by the deeds of the law no man living can be rid of his burden:  therefore, Mr. Worldly Wiseman is an alien, and Mr. Legality is a cheat; and for his son Civility, notwithstanding his simpering looks, he is but a hypocrite and cannot help thee.  Believe me, there is nothing in all this noise, that thou hast heard of these sottish men, but a design to beguile thee of thy salvation, by turning thee from the way in which I had set thee.  After this, Evangelist called aloud to the heavens for confirmation of what he had said:  and with that there came words and fire out of the mountain under which poor Christian stood, that made the hair of his flesh stand up.  The words were thus pronounced:  `As many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.’ [Gal. 3:10]