The wells of salvation opened, or, Words whereby we may be saved

3. This salvation is a necessary salvation: the great difficulty of obtaining some precious things discourageth the endeavours of the most in seeking after them, especially when they may be well enough without them; but this salvation is necessary, you cannot be without it; it is of absolute and universal necessity; some things you may have, this you must have; without it you are undone, you will be irrecoverably and eternally miserable; there is no medium, no middle condition between salvation and damnation (of which more by and by): some things are necessary to the body, but salvation is necessary to your happiness, without it there is no possibility (in this fallen state) of obtaining the chief end, the chief good which you are capable of; without this no coming near to God in whom your chiefest happiness doth consist, no vision or fruition of him either in part here, or in full and eternally hereafter. Some men have need of one thing, and some of another, but all the men and women in the world have need of salvation, because all are sinners, all are children of wrath by nature. There is not one person amongst you all but have been guilty of sin, for the whole world is guilty before God, Rom. 3.19. and every moment of your lives you are exposed unto the punishment of sin in Hell, unless you are brought into a state of salvation. It is necessary therefore that all of you should above all things seek after your salvation.

3. This salvation is a necessary salvation: the great difficulty of obtaining some precious things discourageth the endeavours of the most in seeking after them, especially when they may be well enough without them; but this salvation is necessary, you cannot be without it; it is of absolute and universal necessity; some things you may have, this you must have; without it you are undone, you will be irrecoverably and eternally miserable; there is no medium, no middle condition between salvation and damnation (of which more by and by): some things are necessary to the body, but salvation is necessary to your happiness, without it there is no possibility (in this fallen state) of obtaining the chief end, the chief good which you are capable of; without this no coming neer to God in whom your chiefest happiness doth consist, no vision or fruition of him either in part here, or in full and eternally hereafter. Some men have need of one thing, and some of another, but all the men and women in the world have need of salvation, because all are sinners, all are children of wrath by nature. There is not one person amongst you all but have been guilty of sin, for the whole world is guilty before God,