Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment…

5. It is the fifth sort therefore that I shall chiefly address my speech to; who, I fear are not the smallest part. It is an astonishing consideration to men that are awake, to observe the unreasonableness and stupidity of the ignorant, careless, sensual part of men; How little they Love or Fear the God whom their tongues confess; How little they value, or mind, or seek the everlasting glory, which they take on them to believe; How little they fear and shun those flames which must feed for ever on the impenitent and unholy; How little they care or labour for their immortal souls, as if they were of the Religion of their beasts: How bitterly many of them hate the holy ways commanded by the Lord: while yet they pretend to be themselves his Servants, and ⟨p. 12⟩to take the Scriptures to be his word: How sottishly and contemptuously they neglect and sleight the Holiness without which there is no salvation; Heb. 12. 14. How eagerly they desire and seek the pleasing of their flesh, and the matters of this transitory life, while they call them vanity and vexation; How madly they will fall out with their own salvation; and from the errors and sins of Hypocrites or others, will pick quarrels against the Doctrine, and Ordinances, and ways of God; as if other mens faults should be exceeded by you, while you pretend to loath them. If it be a sin to crack our faith by some particular error, what is it to dash it all to pieces? If it be odious in your eyes, to deny some particular Ordinance of God, what is it to neglect or Profane them all? If it be their sin that quarrel in the way to Heaven, and walk not in company as love requireth them; what is it in you to run towards hell, and turn your backs on the holy Laws ⟨p. 13⟩and ways of God? If it be so lamentable to the Nation and themselves, that so many have fallen into schism and disorder; what is it then that so many are ungodly, sensual, and worldly, and have no true Religion at all, in sincerity, and life, and power? Ungodliness is all Heresy transcendently in the lump, and that in Practice. A man that is so foolish as to plead that Arsenic is better then bread, may yet live himself if he do not take it: but so cannot he that eateth it instead of bread. Heretics only in speculation may be saved: but practical heretics cannot.