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

And indeed were this true, then we need look no farther to see our names written in Heaven, than only to search the Register, and see whether we were baptized: then I would keep the certificate of my baptism, as my fairest evidence for Heaven, and should come by assurance of my gracious state, with a wet finger; then men should do well to carry but a certificate of their baptism under the Registers hand, when they died (as the Philosopher would be buried with the Bishops Bond in his hand which he had given him for receiving his alms in another world,) and upon sight of this, there were no doubt of their admission into Heaven.

In short, if there be no more necessary to conversion or regeneration, than to be turned to the Christian Religion, or to be baptized in infancy, this will fly directly in the face of that Scripture, Mat. 7. 14. as well as multitudes of others. For first we will then no more say, strait is the gate and narrow is the way; for if all that are baptized, and of true Religion are saved, the door is become heavenly wide, and we will henceforth say, wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth unto life; for if this be true, ⟨p. 9⟩whole Parishes, yea whole Countries, and whole Kingdoms may go in a breast, and we will no more teach, that the righteous is scarcely saved, or that there is need of such a stir in taking the Kingdom of Heaven by violence, and striving to enter in. Surely if the way be so easy as many make it, that there is little more necessary, than to be regenerated in our baptism, and cry God mercy, and be absolved by the Minister at our end; 'tis more ado than needs to put our selves to such running, and seeking, and knocking, and fighting, and wrestling, as the word requires as necessary to Salvation. Secondly, if this be true, we will no more say, Few there be that find it; yea we will rather say, Few there be that miss it: we will no more say, that of the many that are called, but few are chosen, Mat. 22. 14. and that even of the professing Israel, but a remnant shall be saved,