A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

Heb. 2.3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great Salvation? For what can we expect but that God's Mercy and Patience abused, should be turned into Wrath and Fury: and we cannot despise it without a great deal of Sin and Profaneness, Heb. 12.16. Lest there be any profane Person, as Esau, who for one morsel of Meat sold his Birthright. The Birthright was a Pledge of the Blessing; and a right of Priesthood, and Ministration before the Lord, depended upon it: This was Esau's by Birth, and he is called [Greek or Hebrew], a profane Man, for parting with it at so low a rate, and thinking so meanly of spiritual Privileges. O, but what Profaneness is this, to despise the great Salvation that will cause us ever to be before the Lord, and minister in his Presence? We count him a profane Man, that is guilty of Murder, Theft, Adultery, Perjury, because those Sins bring public Shame and Contempt, and because these Sins are most destructive to human Society: But he is a profane Man indeed that despiseth the Gospel, because it offereth such an excellent Salvation; that is Profaneness, to slight God's best Provision, to scorn his Bowels, and when the Lord hath made the Bait, an Allurement so strong to gain Man's Heart, yet to turn his back upon it.

Heb. 2.3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great Salvation? For what can we expect but that God's Mercy and Patience abused, should be turned into Wrath and Fury: and we cannot despise it without a great deal of Sin and Profaneness, Heb. 12.16. Lest there be any profane Person, as Esau, who for one morsel of Meat sold his Birthright. The Birthright was a Pledg of the Blessing; and a right of Priesthood, and Ministration before the Lord, depended upon it: This was Esau's by Birth, and he is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a profane Man, for parting with it at so low a rate, and thinking so meanly of spiritual Priviledges. O, but what Profaneness is this, to despise the great Salvation that will cause us ever to be before the Lord, and minister in his Presence? We count him a profane Man, that is guilty of Murder, Theft, Adultery, Perjury, because those Sins bring publick Shame and Contempt, and because these Sins are most destructive to human Society: But he is a profane Man indeed that despiseth the Gospel, because it offereth such an excellent Salvation; that is Profaneness, to slight God's best Provision, to scorn his Bowels, and when the Lord hath made the Bait, an Allurement so strong to gain Man's Heart, yet to turn his back upon it.