The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

Quest. 18. Ask them whether there be a Heaven and a Hell, or not? If not, why are they pretended Christians? If there be, will God send one man to Heaven, and another to Hell, to so vast, so amazing a difference of states, if there be no great difference between them here? If Holiness no more differenced Christians from others, than saying a Sermon, or saying over a Prayer, doth difference one from an Infidel, where were the Justice of God in saving some and damning others? and what were Christianity better than the Religion of Antonine, Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Cicero, Plutarch, if not much worse? Go into London streets, and when you have talked with living prudent men, then go to the Painters shop and see a comely picture, and to the Looking-glass and see the appearances of each passenger in a Glass, and to the Periwig-shops, and set a wooden-head with a periwig upon the Bulk, and you have seen somewhat like the difference of a Holy Soul, and of a dead and dressed formal hypocrite, Psal. 23. 27.

Quest. 18. Ask them whether there be a Heaven and a Hell, or not? If not, why are they pretended Christians? If there be, will God send one man to Heaven, and another to Hell, to so vast, so amazing a difference of states, if there be no great difference between them here? If Holiness no more differenced Christians from others, than saying a Sermon, or saying over a Prayer, doth difference one from an Infidel, where were the Justice of God in saving some and damning others? and what were Christianity better than the Religion of Antonine, Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Cicero, Plutarch, if not much worse? Go into London streets, and when you have talkt with living prudent men, then go to the Painters shop and see a comely picture, and to the Looking-glass and see the appearances of each passenger in a Glass, and to the Periwig-shops, and set a wodden-head with a periwig upon the Bulk, and you have seen somewhat like the difference of a Holy Soul, and of a dead and dressed formal hypocrite, Psal. 23. 27.

Quest. 19. Ask them whether Kings and all men make not a great difference between man and ⟨image 12⟩man; the loyal and perfidious, the obedient and the disobedient? And whether they difference not themselves between a friend and a soe, one that loveth them, and one that robbeth, beateth, or would kill them. And shall not the most Holy God more difference between the righteous and the wicked?