The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures

Secondly, Consider this,¹ You must work either in Gods Service, or in the Devils Drudgery: And choose you whether you had rather be Satan's Slaves, or God's Servants; nay, indeed choose whether? Is it a matter of Choice with Men, who have rational and immortal Souls? Do you not all profess your selves to be the Servants of the living God? Do you not all wear his Livery? Would not the vilest and most profligate Sinner willingly lurk under the Name and Badge of a Christian, and count it a great Wrong done him, should any so much as doubt of his Salvation? And wherefore is this, but because they are ashamed of their Service, and of their own black Master? But alas! it is in vain to renounce him in Words; for if your Works be not for God, if they be not such as Religion exacts, as the Holy Ghost inspires, as Grace performs, and as Salvation calls for from you, his ⟨p. 90⟩Slaves you are, and though you profess to deny him, yet in your Works you own him.

1. 12. All Men work either in Gods Service or the Devils Drudgery.

¹Thirdly, If you work for Satan you do but work for your own Damnation: For work you must and will, and this is all the Reward and Wages that you can justly expect from the Service of Sin and Satan; and of this a just God and a malicious Devil will look that you shall not be defrauded; but as your Ephah hath been full of Iniquity and Abominations, so shall your Cup be full of Wrath and Indignation. Think, Oh Sinner, think how these Masters, whom thou now servest, will in Hell insult over thee and upbraid thee. Is this he our faithful and industrious Servant? He, who preferred our Misery before his own Happiness, whose precious Soul was not precious to him for our sakes? And is he now come whither his ways lead him? Prepare a Place quickly for him; let his Darkness be horrid and dismal, his Works were so; let his Chains be strong and massy, the Bonds of his Iniquities were so; let his unquenchable Fire be piercing and vehement; let his Torment be next unto my self; this, this