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

6. Moreover, whilst you neglect the One thing necessary, you neglect Christ himself, and reject the saving benefit of his bloodshed, and refuse the healing work of his Spirit, and the precious benefits which he hath offered you in the Gospel. And how can you escape if you neglect so great salvation? Heb. 2. 3. How will you be saved, when you refuse the only Saviour? There is indeed enough in Christ to heal and save the humbled soul, that thirsteth for his righteousness and salvation, and valueth and seeketh him as a Saviour: and if you would thus come to him, you might have life, John 5. 40. But whiles you give your selves to please the flesh, and follow the world, and look so little after Christ, or after the ends and benefits of his sufferings and grace, Christ is as no Christ to you; and Grace is as no Grace to you; and the Gospel is as no Gospel to you; and you will be never the more saved, then if there had no Saviour ever come into the world, or there had never Grace been given to the world, or there had never been promise made, or Gospel preached to the world: For Christ will not save them that continue to neglect him, and set light by all the mercy that he offereth, and the salvation which he hath purchased, and do not esteem and use him as ⟨p. 41⟩a Saviour, and cannot find enough in God and Glory, to take off their hearts from the pleasures and idols of the flesh. If Christ would have gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and you would not (Matth. 23. 37.) you will be as far from being saved by him, as if you had never heard of his name.

6. Moreover, whilest you neglect the One thing necessary, you neglect Christ himself, and reject the saving benefit of his bloodshed, and refuse the healing work of his Spirit, and the precious benefits which he hath offered you in the Gospel. And how can you escape if you neglect so great salvation? Heb. 2. 3. How will you be saved, when you refuse the only Saviour? There is indeed enough in Christ to heal and save the humbled soul, that thirsteth for his righteousness and salvation, and valueth and seeketh him as a Saviour: and if you would thus come to him, you might have life,