An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Therefore let the Use be of Instruction, that as ye are not to rest in any Church ¹forms, or external Communion, to think that the very bodily doing of them will save you. So on the other side, Take heed of voluntarily, and wilfully neglecting the public Assemblies. How have the godly, when banished and driven from them, bewailed their misery, whereas thou dost voluntarily absent thy self? Think how it may lie upon thee at thy death, when thou shalt remember the many Sabbaths, the many Ordinances thou hast neglected; and now if God would give thee but one day, or one hour to make thy peace with him, thou wouldst judge it a great mercy.

Therefore let the Use be of Instruction, that as ye are not to rest in any Church ¹forms, or external Communion, to think that the very bodily doing of them will save you. So on the other side, Take heed of voluntarily, and wilfully neglecting the publick Assemblies. How have the godly, when banished and driven from them, bewailed their misery, whereas thou dost voluntarily absent thy self? Think how it may lie upon thee at thy death, when thou shalt remember the many Sabbaths, the many Ordinances thou hast neglected; and now if God would give thee but one day, or one hour to make thy peace with him, thou wouldst judge it a great mercy.

1. 1Use. Of Instruction

The second Observation is from the Universality, All the Saints. There are none so mean, so inconsiderable, but this Epistle is directed to them, as well as the most eminent. From whence observe,