We have here an account of the way and end of a great many self-deluded
souls. 1. Their way is seemingly fair: It seems right to themselves;
they please themselves with a fancy that they are as they should be,
that their opinions and practices are good, and such as will bear them
out. The way of ignorance and carelessness, the way of worldliness and
earthly-mindedness, the way of sensuality and flesh-pleasing, seem
right to those that walk in them, much more the way of hypocrisy in
religion, external performances, partial reformations, and blind zeal;
this they imagine will bring them to heaven; they flatter themselves in
their own eyes that all will be well at last. 2. Their end is really
fearful, and the more so for their mistake: It is the ways of death,
eternal death; their iniquity will certainly be their ruin, and they
will perish with a lie in their right hand. Self-deceivers will prove
in the end self-destroyers.