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

Thirdly, God hath to this end set apart §3his Ministers, that they might be Helpers to you in this great Work of working out of your Salvation. And therefore they are called, Helpers of your Faith and Joy. ¹They are said, To watch for your Souls as those that must give an account. ²They are said to be Co-workers with Jesus Christ; yea,³ they are said To save your Souls. Ministers are set in the Church to admonish with all Meekness, to beseech with all Earnestness, to rebuke with all Authority, yea, and we have done it: Have we not called upon you, Sinners, Sinners, why will you die? The Way wherein you now walk leads ⟨p. 154⟩down to the Chambers of Death and Destruction; the Wages of that Work you are now doing is Shame, Death and Hell: Have we not thus often called upon you? Yes, so often have we thundered Terrors in Mens Ears, that they now disregard them out of custom; and when we speak of Sin and Death, and Hell and Judgment to come, Men think we are fallen into a common Peace, and we must talk dreadfully to keep in our Road. These are the Apprehensions Men have of the great and fearful Denunciations that are daily discharged in their Ears by the Ministers of the Gospel. And have we not also displayed Jesus Christ in all his Excellencies, so far forth as his infinite Excellencies can be displayed with a few short-breathed Words? Have we not set forth Holiness in its Beauty and Lustre, and done as much as we could do to reconcile you to the ways of Obedience, and to remove the unjust Prejudices that Men have taken up against them? What could we have done more than we have done, to inform Mens Judgments, to satisfy their Consciences, to answer all their Doubts, to allay their Fears, to supply them with quickening ⟨p. 155⟩Considerations to Duty, and with deterring Considerations from Sin? We appeal to your selves; and yet we speak not this to ingratiate or to commend our selves (we profess we care not much for the good Opinion of any Man in the World, farther than it may be of some advantage to do your Souls good;) but do you think God expects not some great Thing from you? Give me leave o deal truly and faithfully with you;