Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things

The last and highest step is, Universal obedience to Christ. No sooner hath he cast himself upon him, but he takes him (not only as a Saviour to redeem him from the miseries of sin, but) as an husband, a Lord, a King, to serve him, love him, honour him, and obey him: Now will he take his yoke upon him; now will he bear his cross and follow after him; now will he enter into the narrow way; now will he walk in the holy path; now will he associate himself to that sect and brotherhood that is every where spoken against; ¹now will he oppose himself against all sin whatsoever; ⟨p. 38⟩now will he shake off his old companions, brethren in iniquity; now will he keep peace and a good conscience towards God and man; now will he watch over his secret sins, lustful thoughts, occasions of evil; now will he direct his words to the glorifying of God, and to give grace to the hearers; now will he conform all his actions to the sovereignty of grace; now will he delight in the word, the ways, the Saints, the services of God; now will he never more turn again unto folly, or to his trade of sin, yea though Satan set upon him with baits and allurements, to detain him in his bondage, but by one darling-delight, one minion-sin, yet he resolves to answer him as Moses did Pharaoh, There shall not so much as an hoof be left behind; for well he knows, one breach in the City exposeth it to the enemy, one leak in a ship will sink it in the sea, one stab in the heart will speed a man to death, one knot in a thread will stay the needles passage as well as five hundred, and therefore he will sell all, all that he hath, even all his sins, to the last filthy rag of his minion-delight, his bewitching-beloved-bosom-sin. And now is the new man born amongst us, will you view him? Old things are passed away, ²behold, all things are become new, 1 Cor. 5.17. His heart, his eye, his ear, his tongue, his understanding, his will, his memory, his conscience; his love, his hatred, his hope, his fear, his joy, his sorrow; will you any more? his thoughts, his words, his actions, his affections, are all new; this conversion is universal, this change is a through change;

The last and highest step is, Ʋniversal obedience to Christ. No sooner hath he cast himself upon him, but he takes him (not onely as a Savior to redeem him from the miseries of sin, but) as an husband, a Lord, a King, to serve him, love him, honor him, and obey him: Now will he take his yoke upon him; now will he bear his cross and follow after him; now will he enter into the narrow way; now will he walk in the holy path; now will he associate himself to that sect and brotherhood that is every where spoken against;