A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Fourthly, Consider the paucity and smallness of the number of those that are pardoned. Professors of Christianity are calculated by some to possess not above the sixth part of the known World; and if among them we make a proportionable abatement for those that are professed Idolaters, for the grossly ignorant, for the profane, and the Hypocritical: Certainly there will be but a small Flock remaining unto Jesus Christ; here and there one picked and culled out of the Multitudes of the World, like the Olive berries, the Prophet Jeremiah speaks of, left on the top of the uppermost Branches, when the Devil ⟨p. 25⟩hath shaken down all the rest into Hell. Now is it not infinite Mercy, that thou shouldst be found among these Gleanings after Harvest, that thou shouldst be one of these few? God might have left thee to perish upon the same Reason that he left others, but he gathered thee out of all Nations, Kindreds, and Languages of the Earth, to make thee a Vessel of Mercy for himself. Indeed thou canst never enough admire the peculiar Love of God to thee herein, till the last Day; when thou shalt see the small number of those that are saved, standing on the Right Hand of Christ, compared with the vast numbers of those that perish standing at the Left Hand of Christ, and seest thy self among the small number of those that are saved.

Fourthly, Consider the paucity and smallness of the number of those that are pardon'd. Professours of Christianity are calculated by some to possess not above the sixth part of the known World; and if among them we make a proportionable abatement for those that are professed Idolaters, for the grosly ignorant, for the prophane, and the Hypocritical: Certainly there will be but a small Flock remaining unto Jesus Christ; here and there one pick't and cull'd out of the Multitudes of the World, like the Olive berries, the Prophet Jeremiah speaks of, left on the top of the uppermost Branches, when the Devil ⟨p. 25⟩hath shaken down all the rest into Hell. Now is it not infinite Mercy, that thou should'st be found among these Gleanings after Harvest, that thou shoul'dst be one of these few? God might have left thee to perish upon the same Reason that he left others, but he gathered thee out of all Nations, Kindreds, and Languages of the Earth, to make thee a Vessel of Mercy for himself. Indeed thou canst never enough admire the peculiar Love of God to thee herein, till the last Day; when thou shalt see the small number of those that are saved, standing on the Right Hand of Christ, compared with the vast numbers of those that perish standing at the Left Hand of Christ, and seest thy self among the small number of those that are saved.