A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to…

1. It is not the ta•ing on us the Profession of Christianity. Doubtless Christianity is more than a name. If we will hear Paul, it lies not in word, but in power• 1 Cor. 4. 20. if to cease to be Jews and Pagans, and to p•t on the Christian Profession had been true Conversion• (as this is all, that some would have to be understood by it) who better Christians than they of Sardis and Laodicea? These were all Christians by profession, and had a name to live, but because ⟨p. 7⟩they had but a name, are condemned by Christ, and threatened to be spewed out, Rev. 3. 1. 16. Are there not many that name the name of the Lord Jesus, that yet depart not from iniquity? 2 Tim. 2. 19. and profess they know God, but in works deny him? Tit. 1. 16. And will God receive these for true converts, because turned to the Christian Religion? What, converts from sin, when yet they do live in sin? 'Tis a visible contradiction. Surely if the lamp of profession would have served the turn, the foolish Virgins had never been shut out, Mat. 25. 3, 12. We find not only professors but Preachers of Christ, and Wonder-workers turned off, because evil workers, Mat. 7. 22, 23.

1. It is not the ta•ing on us the Profession of Christianity. Doubtless Christianity is more than a name. If we will hear Paul, it lies not in word, but in power• 1 Cor. 4. 20. if to cease to be Jews and Pagans, and to pt on the Christian Profession had been true Conversion (as this is all, that some would have to be understood by it) who better Christians than they of Sardis and Laodicea? These were all Christians by profession, and had a name to live, but because