Englands duty under the present gospel liberty from Revel. III, vers. 20

3ly, You have adjusted many accounts with men, but who shall make up your accounts with God, if you be Christless? What shall it profit a man to gain the whole World, and lose his own Soul? Matth. 16. 26. Say not you have much business under your Hands, and cannot allow time; you will have space enough hereafter to reflect upon your folly.

Secondly, You that are poor and mean in the World, what say you, Will you have two Hells, one here, and another hereafter? No comfort in this World, nor hope for the next? Your expectations here laid in the dust, and your hopes for Heaven built upon the sand? O, if you were once in Christ, how happy were you, though you knew not where to fetch your next bread! Poor in the World, but rich in faith; and heirs of the Kingdom which God hath promised, James 2. 5. O blessed state! If you had Christ, you had then a right to all things, I Cor. 3. 22, 23. You had then a Father to take care for you: but to be poor, and Christless; no comfort from this World, nor hopes from the next; this is to be truly miserable indeed. Your very straights and wants should prompt you to the great duty I am now pressing on you; and methinks it should be ⟨p. 450⟩matter of encouragement that the greatest number of Christs friends and followers came out of that rank and order of men to which you belong.

Thirdly, You that are Seamen, floating so often upon the great deeps, you are reckoned a third sort of persons between the living and the dead; you belong not to the dead, because you yet breath; and scarcely to the living, because you are continually so near death: What think you friends, have you no need of a Saviour? Do you live so secure from the reach and danger of death? Have your lives been so pure, righteous, and innocent, who have been in the thick of temptations in the World abroad? Ponder that Scripture,