The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

The Law requires the performance of our Duty without abatement, or denounceth the Penalty without allay or mitigation: The Gospel has not relaxed the strictness of the Law, as 'tis the Rule of Life, but as it was the condition of obtaining Life. Sincere Obedience is accepted by that gracious ⟨p. 245⟩Covenant, where the Legal Perfection is wanting; but that is indispensably required of all. I may illustrate this by a Passage of Alexander the Great, who being desirous to learn Geometry, applied himself to a skilful Instructor in it. But his warlike Disposition made him more capable to conquer, than to measure the Earth; so that tired with the first Propositions, he desired his Master to make the Scheme more clear and plain, and easy to him: ^*To whom the Master replied, that the Theorems of that Science were equally difficult to all, and required the same attention of Mind to understand them. Thus the Gospel of Mercy requires of all sincere Sanctification, and serious endeavours to perfect Holiness in the Fear of God, and without this none shall be exempted from Condemnation.

The Law requires the performance of our Duty without abatement, or denounceth the Penalty without allay or mitigation: The Gospel has not relax'd the strictness of the Law, as 'tis the Rule of Life, but as it was the condition of obtaining Life. Sincere Obedience is accepted by that gracious ⟨p. 245⟩Covenant, where the Legal Perfection is wanting; but that is indispensably required of all. I may illustrate this by a Passage of Alexander the Great, who being desirous to learn Geometry, applied himself to a skilful Instructer in it. But his warlike Disposition made him more capable to conquer, than to measure the Earth; so that tired with the first Propositions, he desir'd his Master to make the Scheme more clear and plain, and easy to him: ^*To whom the Master replied, that the Theorems of that Science were equally difficult to all, and requir'd the same attention of Mind to understand them. Thus the Gospel of Mercy requires of all sincere Sanctification, and serious endeavours to perfect Holiness in the Fear of God, and without this none shall be exempted from Condemnation.