Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

Take heed of departing from God; For as we have heard already, it is a very dangerous thing to depart from God. Let me add this:

If we depart from God, who will receive us? If a Proclamation be out against a man as a Traitor, who durst receive him? And if a man do depart from the Lord, what creature dare receive him? In 2 Joh. speaking of some that departed from the Lord; Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ; if there come any into you, and bring not this Doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: The Kings Proclamation is out against him, take heed how you receive him; Here's a command sent from the Lord to take heed how you receive such an one; I say, if we depart from God, who will receive us?

And if you depart from God, you will hardly ever return unto him again: you know the place, it is impossible we should be renewed by Repentance; Faith is but once delivered to the Saints: If the leaves be off in the Winter, the tree will grow again; but ⟨p. 223⟩if it be plucked up by the roots, it will grow no more: Twice dead saith the Apostle: dead by the Law; but if a man depart from God under the Gospel, he is twice dead: now a man that's twice dead, certainly he will never recover; twice dead, How twice dead? Not that a man was twice alive. A man is hanged, and so is dead; after he is hanged he is quartered, here's a second death; he is twice dead, not that he had a life between these two deaths, between his hanging and his quartering, but he is twice dead: So a man that departs from God under the Gospel, he is twice dead: He was alive once in the state of Innocency, but he lost it, and now he is dead by the Gospel, and out asunder by the Gospel, he is twice dead, and will hardly ever return to God again: A man that lives under the Gospel, and departs from God, a thousand to one, if ever he return to God again.