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…

BUT here I must fix with them unto whom I speak at present, unless there be a full Conviction in them of the woeful deplorable condition of every Soul of whatever Quality, Profession, Religion, outward State it be, who is not yet made partaker of Christ, all that I have further to add will be of no signification. Remember then that the due consideration hereof is unto you in your State, your chiefest concernment in this World: and be not afraid to take in a full and deep sense of it, for if you are really delivered from it, and have good Evidence thereof, it is nothing unto you but matter of eternal Praise and Thanksgiving. And if you are not so, it is highly necessary that your Minds should be possessed with due Apprehension of it. The work of this Conviction is the first effect of true Religion, and the great Abuse of Religion in the World is, that a pretence of it deludes the Minds of men to apprehend that it is not necessary; for to be of this or that Religion, of this or that way in Religion, is supposed sufficient to secure the Eternal State of men, though they are never convinced of their lost estate by Nature.

BUT here I must fix with them unto whom I speak at present, unless there be a full Conviction in them of the woful deplorable condition of every Soul of whatever Quality, Profession, Religion, outward State it be, who is not yet made partaker of Christ, all that I have further to add will be of no signification. Remember then that the due consideration hereof is unto you in your State, your chiefest concernment in this World: and be not afraid to take in a full and deep sense of it, for if you are really delivered from it, and have good Evidence thereof, it is nothing unto you but matter of eternal Praise and Thanksgiving. And if you are not so, it is highly necessary that your Minds should be possessed with due Apprehension of it. The work of this Conviction is the first effect of true Religion, and the great Abuse of Religion in the World is, that a pretence of it deludes the Minds of men to apprehend that it is not necessary; for to be of this or that Religion, of this or that way in Religion, is supposed sufficient to secure the Eternal State of men, though they are never convinced of their lost estate by Nature.

4. HEREON consider the Infinite Condescension and Love of Christ, in his Invitations and