Then say to the People thus, or to this sense.
You have heard Beloved, how great a dignity we were advanced to in our Baptism, to how great duty we are all engaged. O search and try, whether you have kept or broken the Covenant which you made, and have lived according to the dignity of your Calling. And if any of you be Atheists, Unbelievers, or Ungodly, and love not God above all, and neglect Christ and his Salvation, and are yet unsanctified, and live after the Flesh, the Devil, and the World, which you here renounced; As you love your souls, bewail your perfidious Covenant-breaking with God. Trust not the water of Baptism alone; if you are not born again of the Spirit also, you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, Joh. 3. 5, 6. Baptism will not save you, if you have not the answer of a good conscience unto ⟨p. 65⟩God, 1 Pet. 3. 21. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, the same is none of his, Rom. 8. 9. Much less those wretches that hate Sanctification, and despise and scorn a holy life, when they were by Baptism engaged to the Holy Ghost the Sanctifier; Can you think to be saved by the Covenant, which you keep not? O no! your perfidiousness aggravateth your sin and misery, Eccles. 5. 4, 5. When thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it, for he hath no pleasure in Fools: Pay that which thou hast vowed; better it is that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. O bless the Lord, that it is a Covenant of such Grace which is tendered to you, that yet upon true Repentance and Conversion, even your Covenant-breaking shall be forgiven; And therefore penitently cast down your selves before the Lord, and believingly cast your selves on Christ, and yield to the teachings, and sanctifying operations of the Holy Ghost, yet know the day of your Visitation, and forsake the Flesh, the Devil, and the World, and turn to God with all your hearts, and give up your selves entirely to your Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, and he will have mercy upon you, and will abundantly pardon you. But if you still live after the Flesh, you shall dye: And if you continue to neglect this great Salvation, there remaineth no more Sacrifice for sin, but a certain fearful looking for of Judgement, and Fire, which shall devour the Adversaries.
Then say to the People thus, or to this sense.
YOu have heard Beloved, how great a dignity we were advanced to in our Baptism, to how great duty wee are all ingaged. O search and try, whether you have kept or broken the Convenant which you made, and have lived according to the dignity of your Calling. And if any of you bee Atheists, Unbeleevers, or Ungodly, and love not God above all, and neglect Christ and his Salvation, and are yet unsanctified, and live after the Flesh, the Devil, and the World, which you here renounced; As you love your souls, bewail your perfidious Convenant-breaking with God. Trust not the water of Baptism alone; if you are not born again of the Spirit also, you cannot enter into the Kingdome of God, Joh. 3. 5, 6. Baptism will not save you, if you have not the answer of a good conscience unto ⟨p. 65⟩God, 1 Pet. 3. 21. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, the same is none of his, Rom. 8. 9. Much less those wretches that hate Sanctification, and despise and scorn a holy life, when they were by Baptism engaged to the Holy Ghost the Sanctifier; Can you think to bee saved by the Covenant, which you keep not? O no! your perfidiousness aggravateth your sin and misery, Eccles. 5. 4, 5. When thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it, for hee hath no pleasure in Fools: Pay that which thou hast vowed; better it is that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. O bless the Lord, that it is a Covenant of such Grace which is tendred to you, that yet upon true Repentance and Coversion, even your Covenant-breaking shall bee forgiven; And therefore penitently cast down your selves before the Lord, and beleevingly cast your selves on Christ, and yeeld to the teachings, and sanctifying operations of the Holy Ghost, yet know the day of your Visitation, and forsake the Flesh, the Devil, and the World, and turn to God with all your hearts, and give up your selves intirely to your Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, and hee will have mercy upon you, and will abundantly pardon you. But if you still live after the Flesh, you shall dye: And if you continue to neglect this great Salvation, there remaineth no more Sacrifice for sin, but a certain fearful looking for of Judgement, and Fire, which shall devour the Adversaries.
