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

Now in Conversion the enmity is slain, and thereby the rebellion subdued; You who were sometimes alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, hath he now reconciled, Col. 1. 21. A sincere Convert is a Soul reconciled. Reconciliation between God and Man is of both parties. The reconciliation of Man to God stands in a cessation from enmity, a subduing of his rebellion, and his returning into friendship and allegiance. Sinners love not God, nor any thing that belongs to God, their enmity is against him, and all his; against his Word, Worship, and all his ways: they love neither his Laws, nor his Promises; neither his works, nor his ways. God promises and rewards with spiritual and eternal blessings, but what is this to a carnal mind? he must have money, meat, and drink, and fine Clothes, and pleasures, these Locusts he likes, but loathes Gods Manna.

Now in Conversion the enmity is slain, and thereby the rebellion subdued; You who were sometimes alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, hath he now reconciled, Col. 1. 21. A sincere Convert is a Soul reconciled. Reconciliation between God and Man is of both parties. The reconciliation of Man to God stands in a cessation from enmity, a subduing of his rebellion, and his returning into friendship and allegiance. Sinners love not God, nor any thing that belongs to God, their enmity is against him, and all his; against his Word, Worship, and all his ways: they love neither his Laws, nor his Promises; neither his works, nor his ways. God promises and rewards with spiritual and eternal blessings, but what is this to a carnal mind? he must have money, meat, and drink, and fine Cloaths, and pleasures, these Locusts he likes, but loaths Gods Manna.

A Convert is so reconciled to God, that he loves and likes all that is of God; he likes his Crown and his Cross, his comforts and his commands, all that God gives, and whatever he requires: he loves to be, and to do whatever God will have him▪ a strict, holy, and obedient life, a life of care and labour, in all things to please the Lord, that's a life he loves; not only the life he commends and praises in others, but 'tis the life he loves to live.