Heaven taken

Some think, free-grace will save them; but it must be in the use of means, Watch and Pray. Others say, the promises will bring them to Heaven; but the promises of the Word are not to be separated from the precepts. The promise tells us of a Crown; but the precept saith, So run, 1 Cor. 9. 24. The promises are made to encourage faith, not to cherish sloth. But say others, Christ hath died for sinners; and so they leave him to do all for them, and they will do nothing. Then the text is out of date, and all the exhortations to striving, and fighting the good fight of Faith, are in vain. Our salvation cost Christ, Blood; it will cost us, Sweat. The boat may as well get to shore without rowing, as we can to ⟨p. 91⟩Heaven without offering violence.

2. It shows us the great mistake of ¹ignorant people, who think the bare doing of duties, though in never so slight superficial a manner is enough. The text tells us of offering violence.

2. It shews us the great mistake of ¹ignorant people, who think the bare doing of duties, though in never so slight superficial a manner is enough. The text tells us of offering violence.

1. 12. Branch.