Making light of Christ and salvation too oft the issue of gospel invitations manifested…

8. Will you do all this with delight, not as your toil, but as your pleasure? and take it for your highest Honour that you may be Christ's Disciples, and may be admitted to serve and worship him; and rejoice with holy Confidence in the sufficiency of that Sacrifice by which you may have pardon of all your failings, and right to the Inheritance of the Saints in light? If you will do these things sincerely, you will show that you set by Christ and Salvation; else not.

8. Will you do all this with delight, not as your toyl, but as your pleasure? and take it for your highest Honour that you may be Christ's Disciples, and may be admitted to serve and worship him; and rejoyce with holy Confidence in the sufficiency of that Sacrifice by which you may have pardon of all your failings, and right to the Inheritance of the Saints in light? If you will do these things sincerely, you will shew that you set by Christ and Salvation; else not.

Dearly Beloved in the Lord, I have now done that work which I came upon; what effects it hath, or will have upon your Hearts, I know not, nor is it any further in my power, to accomplish that which my soul desireth for you. Were it the Lord's will that I might have my wish herein, the words that you have this day heard, should so stick by you, that the secure should be awakened by them, and none of you should perish by the slighting of your Salvation. I cannot now follow you to your several Habitations, to apply this Word to your particular necessities: but oh that I could make every Man's Conscience a Preacher to himself, that it might do it, which is ever with you: that the next time you go Prayerless to Bed, or about your business, Conscience might cry out, Dost thou set no more by Christ and thy Salvation? that the next time you are tempted to think hardly of a holy and diligent life, (I will not say to deride it as more ado than needs) Conscience might cry out, Dost thou set so light by Christ and thy Salvation? ⟨p. 32⟩that the next time you are ready to rush upon known sin, and to please your fleshly desires against the command of God, Conscience might cry out, Is Christ and Salvation no more worth, than to cast them away, or venture them for thy Lusts? that when you are following the World with your most eager desires, forgetting the World to come, and the change that is a little before you, Conscience might cry out to you, Is Christ and Salvation no more worth than so? That when you are next spending the Lord's day in idleness or vain sports, Conscience might tell you what you are doing. In a word, that in all your neglects of duty, your sticking at the supposed labour or cost of a godly Life; yea, in all your cold and lazy Prayers and Performances, Conscience might tell you, how unsuitable such endeavours are to the Reward; and that Christ and Salvation should not be so slighted. I will say no more but this at this time: