The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission

7. Consider God deserves your positive Obedience as well as your Negative. Friend, if God hath thy negative Obedience, some other hath thy positive, (for I cannot suppose thee idle all the time of thy life) either the Devil, or the World, or the Flesh: Man cannot live without a Master, whose work and business he will do. Now let thy Conscience judge which of these deserves thy Service best. If as Alexander said (when asked of his Kingdoms, who should inherit them after his death,) Let them be given to the most worthy. Thou wilt for the future give thy Affections and Conversation to the most worthy, I doubt not but thou wilt quickly give them to God. For the Devil, surely thou wilt not for shame put ⟨p. 316⟩him in composition with God. Is not he an old Serpent, solicitous night and day with his wiles, and snares, and devices, to deceive thee? And is not he a roaring Lion, seeking continually how he may devour thee? 2 Cor. 11.3. Eph. 6.11. Rev. 12.9. 1 Pet. 5.8. Is not his emnity such against God, that he hates thee for his sake, and improves all his power and policy to bring thee to be a partaker of the same misery and wretchedness with himself? and is he fit to be thy Master? Art thou willing to be his Servant? yet I must tell thee, if thou wilfully neglectest the work of God, thou art of thy Father the Devil, if the Devil and his works thou dost, Joh. 8.44. And remember, the Redeemer had not died to subdue the Devil to us, if it had not been cruel bondage for man to be enslaved to him, Heb. 2.

7. COnsider God deserves your positive Obedience as well as your Negative. Friend, if God hath thy negative Obedience, some other hath thy positive, (for I cannot suppose thee idle all the time of thy life) either the Devil, or the World, or the Flesh: Man cannot live without a Master, whose work and business he will do. Now let thy Conscience judge which of these deserves thy Service best. If as Alexander said (when asked of his Kingdoms, who should inherit them after his death,) Let them be given to the most worthy. Thou wilt for the future give thy Affections and Conversation to the most worthy, I doubt not but thou wilt quickly give them to God. For the Devil, surely thou wilt not for shame put