The divine life in three treatises

I know that besides this general preparation, there should be also a particular special properation, for sufferings and death: But yet this general part is the chiefest and most necessary part. A man that hath walked in his life time with God, shall certainly be saved, though death surprise him unexpectedly, without any more particular preparation: But a particular preparation without either such a life, or such a heart as would cause it if he had recovered, is no sufficient preparation at all, and will not serve to any mans salvation. Alas what a pitiful provision doth that man make for death and for salvation, who neglecteth his soul, despiseth the commands of God, and disregardeth the promises of eternal life, till he is ready to dye, and then crieth out [I repent, I am sorry for my sin, I would I had lived better] and this only from the constraint of fear, without any such love to God and holiness which would make him walk with God if he should recover! what if the Priest absolve this man from all his sins? Doth God therefore absolve him? Or shall he thus be saved? No, it is certain that all the Sacraments and Absolution in the world, will never serve to save such a soul, without that grace which must make it new and truly holy. The Absolution of a Minister of Christ, which is pronounced in his name, is a very great comfort to the truly penitent: ⟨p. 274⟩For such God hath first pardoned by his general Act of Oblivion in the Gospel, and it is God that sendeth his Messenger to them▪ (in Sacraments and Ministerial Absolution) with that pardon particularized and applied to themselves. But where the heart is not truly penitent and converted, that person is not pardoned by the Gospel, as being not in the Covenant, or a child of promise; and therefore the pardon of a Minister, being upon mistake, or t• an unqualified person can reach no further than to admit him into the esteem of men, and to the Communion and outward privileges of the Church (which is a poor comfort to a soul that must lye in Hell:) But it can never admit him into the Kingdom of Heaven. God indeed may approve the act of his Ministers, if they go according to his rule, and deal in Church administrations with those that make A CREDIBLE PROFESSION of FAITH and HOLINESS, as if they had true faith and holiness:

I know that besides this general preparation, there should be also a particular special properation, for sufferings and death: But yet this general part is the chiefest and most necessary part. A man that hath walked in his life time with God, shall certainly be saved, though death surprize him unexpectedly, without any more particular preparation: But a particular preparation without either such a life, or such a heart as would cause it if he had recovered, is no sufficient preparation at all, and will not serve to any mans salvation. Alas what a pittiful provisio doth that man make for death and for salvation, who neglecteth his soul, despiseth the commands of God, and disregardeth the promises of eternal life, till he is ready to dye, and then cryeth out [I repent, I am sorry for my sin, I would I had lived better] and this only from the constraint of fear, without any such love to God and holiness which would make him walk with God if he should recover! what if the Priest absolve this man from all his sins? Doth God therefore absolve him? Or shall he thus be saved? No, it is certain that all the Sacraments and Absolution in the world, will never serve to save such a soul, without that grace which must make it new and truly holy. The Absolution of a Minister of Christ, which is pronounced in his name, is a very great comfort to the truly penitent: