The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

Thou sayest thou dost believe the Gospel, but wilt thou obey the Gospel? hath it gotten the command and government of thee? Is thy life a life of obedience to the Faith? If Sin and the Devil have still the Government of thee, and thou livest under the power of thy flesh, it will no way avail thee to say, I believe in Christ. But of this more in the next particular.

Thou sayst thou dost believe the Gospel, but wilt thou obey the Gospel? hath it gotten the command and government of thee? Is thy life a life of obedience to the Faith? If Sin and the Devil have still the Government of thee, and thou livest under the power of thy flesh, it will no way avail thee to say, I believe in Christ. But of this more in the next particular.

2. Conversion is our return from our enmity and rebellion against God, into friendship and obedience to God; our coming in, and laying down Arms; the ungodly world are all in Arms against God, they are Rebels against the Almighty, their word is the same with those Heathens words, Psal. 2. 3. Let us break his bonds asunder and cast away his cords from us. The root of this rebellion is that enmity that is in their hearts against God, Rom. 8. 7. The carnal mind is enmity against God. Sinners are enemies against the Being of God, they would be glad if there were no God, none above them to restrain or punish them. The Fool that said in his heart, there is no God, Psal. 14. 1. how glad would that Fool be, if he were sure his heart had said true; if he were sure ⟨p. 40⟩there were no God indeed. They are enemies against the Sovereignty of God, against his Rule and Government; they all say in their hearts concerning the Father, as those Jews said concerning the Son, We will not have him to reign over us, they are enemies to all the holy ways of God,