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

2. Consider also, that, It is but One thing which God hath made Necessary for you. And I showed you before, how that the means themselves though they are many, have a certain unity ⟨p. 57⟩in their harmony and connection, and as they centre in the ultimate end, which is One. If God had sent you upon such a multitude of errands as the flesh and the world doth; and set you on such disagreeing contrary works, then you had been excusable, if you had neglected some of them: But he hath sent you but upon One errand, even to seek and make sure of everlasting life; and therefore if you neglect this One, you are unexcuseable. If the world be divided into a thousand opinions, or go a thousand several ways, they may thank themselves who are the Authors of this confusion; but God is no cause of it, or friend to it. He hath made them but One work, and set them but One way to heaven, and given them One Master, Jesus Christ, to teach that way; and written but One Law, even his holy Scripture, to be their sure and constant guide: And if men would stick to this One Master, and not make flesh and blood their master, or the multitude their master, or the Rulers of the world, or the custom of their fore fathers the master of their faith: and if they would stick to this One Word of God, and not run after the Traditions of men, they would not be in such a maze, nor of so many minds as now they are: But they do in their doctrines as they do in their practice: God hath marked them out but One way in the holy Scripture, which is the good and the sure way, the way that Peter and Paul and the rest of the Apostles went to heaven in, and this way will not serve mens turns, but they will run an hundred ways instead of this One: and they must make new ways which the Apostles of Christ were never acquainted with.

2. COnsider also, that, It is but One thing which God hath made Necessary for you. And I shewed you before, how that the means themselves though they are many, have a certain unity ⟨p. 57⟩in their harmony and connexion, and as they center in the ultimate end, which is One. If God had sent you upon such a multitude of errands as the flesh and the world doth; and set you on such disagreeing contrary works, then you had been excusable, if you had neglected some of them: But he hath sent you but upon One errand, even to seek and make sure of everlasting life; and therefore if you neglect this One, you are unexcuseable. If the world be divided into a thousand opinions, or go a thousand several wayes, they may thank themselves who are the Authors of this confusion; but God is no cause of it, or friend to it. He hath made them but One work, and set them but One way to heaven, and given them One Master, Jesus Christ, to teach that way; and written but One Law, even his holy Scripture, to be their sure and constant guide: And if men would stick to this One Master, and not make flesh and blood their master, or the multitude their master, or the Rulers of the world, or the custum of their fore fathers the master of their fatih: and if they would stick to this One Word of God, and not run after the Traditions of men, they would not be in such a maze, nor of so many minds as now they are: But they do in their doctrines as they do in their practice: God hath marked them out but One way in the holy Scripture, which is the good and the sure way, the way that Peter and Paul and the rest of the Apostles went to heaven in, and this way will not serve mens turns, but they will run an hundred waies instead of this One: and they must make new wayes which the Apostles of Christ were never acquainted with.