Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

3. CONSIDER aright what it is to live and die without an Interest in Christ, without a participation of him. Where this is not stated in the mind, where thoughts of it are not continually prevalent, there can be no one step taken in the way towards him. Unless we are throughly convinced that without him we are in a state of Apostasy from God, under the Curse, obnoxious unto Eternal Wrath, as some of the worst of God's Enemies, we shall never flee unto him for Refuge in a due manner: The whole have no need of a Physician, but the sick; Christ came not to call the Righteous, but Sinners to Repentance: And the Conviction intended, is the principal end of the Ministry of the Law. The Miseries of this State have been the subject of innumerable Sermons and Discourses; but there is a general misery in the whole, that few take themselves to be concerned therein, or apply these things unto themselves. Let us tell men of it a thousand times, yet they either take no notice of it, or believe it not, nor look on it as that which belongs unto the way and course of preaching, wherein they are not concerned. These things it seems Preachers must say, and they may believe them who have a mind thereunto. It is a rare thing that any one shall as much as say unto himself, Is it so with me? And if we ⟨p. 5⟩now, together with this Caution, tell the same Men again, that whilst they are uninterested in Christ, not ingrafted into him by Faith, that they run in vain, that all their labour in Religion is lost, that their Duties are all rejected, that they are under the Displeasure and Curse of God, that their End is eternal Destruction, which are all unquestionably certain, yet will they let all these things pass by without any further consideration.

3. CONSIDER aright what it is to live and die without an Interest in Christ, without a participation of him. Where this is not stated in the mind, where thoughts of it are not continually prevalent, there can be no one step taken in the way towards him. Unless we are throughly convinced that without him we are in a state of Apostacy from God, under the Curse, obnoxious unto Eternal Wrath, as some of the worst of God's Enemies, we shall never flee unto him for Refuge in a due manner: The whole have no need of a Physician, but the sick; Christ came not to call the Rightous, but Sinners to Repentance: And the Conviction intended, is the principal end of the Ministry of the Law. The Miseries of this State have been the subject of innumerable Sermons and Discourses; but there is a general misery in the whole, that few take themselves to be concerned therein, or apply these things unto themselves. Let us tell men of it a thousand times, yet they either take no notice of it, or believe it not, nor look on it as that which belongs unto the way and course of preaching, wherein they are not concerned. These things it seems Preachers must say, and they may believe them who have a mind thereunto. It is a rare thing that any one shall as much as say unto himself, Is it so with me? And if we