A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

I know you will say, [God forbid, we hope better, we intend no such thing] But alas the question is not, What you intend, but what you are doing? Not whether it be your desire that everlasting death should be the wages of sin, but whether it be the Law and unchangeable will of God? Rom. 6. 23. If you seek not first Gods Kingdom and his righteousness, and look not after the One thing needful, with your chiefest Estimation, Resolution, and Endeavours, as sure as Christ is true, this will prove your case at last, though now you wink, and wilfully go on, and will not believe it: As sure as the Gospel is true, this is true. There are but two Ends, Heaven and Hell; and if you miss the former, you fall into the latter. If you live after the flesh, you shall die, whatever you imagine: and you must mortify the deeds of the flesh by the spirit, if you will live, Rom. 8. 13. If you see a man cutting his own threat, and you ask him, [What are you doing man! will you kill your self?] and he answereth you, No, God forbid; I have no such meaning; I will hope better]. Would you think that this would save his life? or that his hopes and meanings would prove him ever the wiser man? I tell you from the Word of God, it is one of the plainest truths that is there contained, that if you value not, choose not, and seek not the One thing Needful above all other things whatsoever, you are all this while but sowing the seeds of endless misery, whose fruit you must reap in outer darkness, where will be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, Mat. 13. 42, 50. You are treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath, and the revelation of the righteous judgement of God, who will give to every man according to his works, Rom. 2. 5, 6. You are sowing in pleasure to the flesh, in eating, and drinking, and ⟨p. 31⟩mirth, and honour: but you shall reap in corruption, lamentation and woe. Gal. 6. 7, 8. For woe to you that now laugh, for you shall mourn and weep: Woe to you that are rich (and have no better, but want the everlasting riches), for you have received your consolation: Woe to you that are full, (and yet are empty of Christ and grace) for you shall hunger,