Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

1. Make your peace with God; sinners God is your enemy, make your peace with him; you have offended him by your sins, and his justice must be satisfied, O labour to ge• an interest in the satisfaction of Christ, that your sins may be pardoned, and God may be reconciled; lay hold on Christ by faith, as yet you may be welcome to him, hereafter, it will be too late. Believers, make sure of a pardon, you cannot be too sure in a thing of such concernment.

2. Diligently endeavour•after peace in your consciences; sinners, get the wounds which fin hath made there, healed with the blood of Christ; Believers, take heed of making any breaches there, maintain peace within, when you have obtained it.

3. Diligently follow after peace one with another, take heed of hatred, variance, emulations, wraths, strifes, seditions, envyings, divisions, clamours, evil-speakings, back-bitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults; and follow after those things which make for peace, as love, joy, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, patience, and the like, that you may be found of the Lord in peace.

3. Diligently follow after peace one with another, take heed of hatred, variance, emulations, wraths, strifes, seditions, envyings, divisions, clamours, evil-speakings, back-bitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults; and follow after those things which make for peace, as love, joy, humbleness of minde, meekness, long-suffering, patience, and the like, that you may be found of the Lord in peace.