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

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.

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 pluck't 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.