The door of salvation opened by the key of regeneration

even to work now in thy soul, that holy love to the most blessed God, who is love it self, which may cause thee here to thirst after his presence, and to seek his favour, and to do his will, and may fit thee delightfully for ever to enjoy him, and everlastingly to be solaced in the beholding of his glory, in the feeling of his love, and in his heavenly praises, and the fulfilling of his will. An unregenerate, unholy soul is as unfit for this, as thy mortal enemy to lye in thy bosom, or as toads and serpents, to be the familiar companions of men; or as thy Ox or Ass is to feed with thee at thy table, and lye with thee in thy bed. Employments and Enjoyments must have a suitable nature; if the Spirit fit thee not here for heaven, in this life which is given thee purposely for that end, its pernicious folly, to hope for a heaven, for which thy unsanctified nature is unfit; and to promise thy self a felicity, of which thou art uncapable, and which indeed thy very heart doth hate. Thou lovest not holiness here, nor the very imperfect Saints that have it; how much less couldst thou love the infinite holiness of God, who hateth thy sins ten thousand times more, then the most severe and sharp reprover hates them! ⟨image 14⟩If thy eyes cannot look upon the smallest candle without offence, how then would they endure to look upon the Sun, and that in the nearest access unto its glory? And if here thy enmity to the holy will of God be such, that thou pleasest not him, and he and his ways are displeasing unto thee; how uncapable art thou of Heaven, which is a state of mutual full delight, where the Saints do perfectly please the Lord, and are perfectly pleased in him and his pleasure? Rom. 8.5, 6, 7, 8. They that are after the flesh, do mind (or savour) the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit: To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace; Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be: So then, they that are in the flesh cannot please God. And that which is born of the flesh, is (but) flesh: As that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Joh. 3.6.

even to work now in thy soul, that holy love to the most blessed God, who is love it self, which may cause thee here to thirst after his presence, and to seek his favour, and to do his will, and may fit thee delightfully for ever to enjoy him, and everlastingly to be solaced in the beholding of his glory, in the feeling of his love, and in his heavenly praises, and the fulfilling of his will. An unregenerate, unholy soul is as unfit for this, as thy mortal enemy to lye in thy bosome, or as toads and serpents, to be the familiar companions of men; or as thy Ox or Ass is to feed with thee at thy table, and lye with thee in thy bed. Employments and Enjoyments must have a suitable nature; if the Spirit fit thee not here for heaven, in this life which is given thee purposely for that end, its pernitious folly, to hope for a heaven, for which thy unsanctifyed nature is unfit; and to promise thy self a felicity, of which thou art uncapable, and which indeed thy very heart doth hate. Thou lovest not holiness here, nor the very imperfect Saints that have it; how much less couldst thou love the infinite holiness of God, who hateth thy sins ten thousand times more, then the most severe and sharp reprover hates them!