Sermons preached

(3.) Scripture, if we will take God's Word for it, is express, Rom. 8. 13. Rom. 6. 21, 22. and Gal. 6. 8. The present World is comprised in two Ranks, either Sowing with the Flesh, that is such who employ their labour to make Provision to gratify the Carnal Appetite: or, Sowing to the Spirit, such as employ their Time and Study in advancing the work of the Spirit: and they issue themselves into two States in the other World; the State of Everlasting Perdition, or Everlasting Life. Thus do the Scriptures propound Good and Life, Evil and Death.

Secondly, The Manner how this is to be done, it must be set forth with all Evidence and Conviction, as to the Reason of Men, with all Earnestness and Affectionate Importunity to awaken their Affections. In short,

1. So as will become the belief of these things. We must not speak of them as a thing spoken in jest, and by rote, but as firmly persuaded of the truth of things, as if Heaven and Hell were before our Eyes, and as evident to Sense, Heb. 11. 1. We look upon these things naturally as at a distance, and so have but a cold apprehension of them; but we should by Faith see them as near at hand. As you would pull a Man out of the Fire, Jude 23. or as falling into a deep Pit or bottomless Gulf, as one in the greatest earnest. Belief puts a Life into Truths, which otherwise are but dead and weak in their Operation; I believed, and therefore did I speak: as if we had a deep sense of these things upon our own Hearts.