Words of advice to young men delivered in two sermons at two conventions of…

2. That sincere Professors are indeed singular and ⟨p. 65⟩precise, but they do not affect more than what God doth command, and more than what is necessary unto salvation; they do not make the way narrower than God hath made it. Our Saviour telleth us, that strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it, Mat. 7. 14. They dare not blot that verse out of the Bible, lest God should blot their names out of his Book; they dare not do as the most do, lest they go to the same place of endless misery, whither the most are hastening; they know they must be singular, otherwise they cannot be sincere; they must walk in the narrow way, and strive to enter in at the strait gate, or else they shall never be admitted into the New Jerusalem.

2. That sincere Professours are indeed singular and ⟨p. 65⟩precise, but they do not affect more than what God doth command, and more than what is necessary unto salvation; they do not make the way narrower than God hath made it. Our Saviour telleth us, that strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that finde it, Mat. 7. 14. They dare not blot that verse out of the Bible, lest God should blot their names out of his Book; they dare not do as the most do, lest they go to the same place of endless misery, whither the most are hastening; they know they must be singular, otherwise they cannot be sincere; they must walk in the narrow way, and strive to enter in at the strait gate, or else they shall never be admitted into the New Jerusalem.

4. The wicked one doth represent Professors as factious and rebellious: That they are a company of seditious and lawless persons, that they are disobedient to the Civil Magistrate whom God hath set over them.