Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

Whoever thou art, whether poor or rich, make an absolute dedication of thy self and ⟨image 28⟩thy all unto Christ, if thou wouldst attain salvation by Christ. He that cannot live of himself, must not live to himself; for if he doth, he dieth eternally, he loseth himself for ever. If heaven might be had upon mens cursed terms of liberty for their lusts, Christ would have customers enough; but he that bought the purchase is fittest to set the price.

Whoever thou art, whether poor or rich, make an absolute dedication of thy self and ⟨image 28⟩thy all unto Christ, if thou wouldst attain salvation by Christ. He that cannot live of himself, must not live to himself; for if he doth, he dieth eternallie, he loseth himself for ever. If heaven might be had upon mens cursed terms of liberty for their lusts, Christ would have customers enough; but he that bought the purchase is fittest to set the price.

Reader, I set before thee in this Treatise Life and Death, Heaven and Hell; if thou art a true Isaac, and hast a spiritual appetite, I dare promise thee such savoury meat as thy soul loveth; but if Gallio-like, thou carest for none of these things, or as the two tribes and an half, desirest thy portion on this side the land of Canaan; If as Spira thou wilt put thy relations and possessions, honour and pleasure, and outward good things in one scale; and God, and Christ, and Heaven in the other; and then choose the former, and refuse the latter; I hope I shall never envy thy happiness, nor desire to eat of thy dainties, or drink of thy cup, but pray that the Lord would have mercy on thee; only let me tell thee; if thou ⟨image 29⟩wouldst avoid the unconceivable endless misery of the damned; if thou wouldst attain the eternal matchless felicity of the saved: If thou wouldst have all thy former rebellions blotted out through the blood of the Son; If thou wouldst have thy person reconciled to the Father; If thou wouldst have God in Christ to stand by thee, when none of thy friends or comforts shall own thee; if thou wouldst appear at the dreadful Bar of Christ with comfort, when thousands and millions shall weep and wail; If thou wouldst not have me, nor this book to be a witness against thee before the Lord, Angels and men: then turn from sin speedily, cleave to thy Saviour unfeignedly, give up thy self to all the commands of Christ unreservedly; To day if thou wilt hear his voice, harden not thy heart, least he swear in his wrath, that thou shalt never enter into his rest,