Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street,…

These few sheets were chiefly intended for you; and therefore I thought fit in a few lines to dedicate them unto you. Some Benefactors give you Food, others give you Raiment, others give you Money; all which gifts are for the relief of your temporal necessities, and of concernment only to your bodies. Here you have a gift in order to the relief of your Spiritual necessities, a Soul-gift, which doth concern your salvation. And as the Soul is more excellent than the Body, and the Salvation here treated of, is of ten thousand times more value than all earthly Riches: So in some measure of proportion you should prize such gifts chiefly as are for the good of your Souls, and may be (through Gods blessing) a help to you in the attaining of Salvation. Your souls are as precious as the souls of the most honourable; and your souls whilst in a state of nature, are in as great danger of ruin, as the souls of the most sinful; and though you should be as yet out of a state of Salvation, you are as capable of obtaining salvation as the most holy before Conversion. And for your further encouragement I may tell you, that you may get to Heaven without so great difficulties as the Rich: See Matth. 19. 24. and Jam. 2. 5. you have not those snares and temptations in your way as the Rich have; which as it should quicken your endeavours after, so it will aggravate your sin if you should neglect your salvation.

THese few sheets were chiefly intended for you; and therefore I thought fit in a few lines to dedicate them unto you. Some Benefactors give you Food, others give you Raiment, others give you Money; all which gifts are for the relief of your temporal necessities, and of concernment only to your bodies. Here you have a gift in order to the relief of your Spiritual necessities, a Soul-gift, which doth concern your salvation. And as the Soul is more excellent than the Body, and the Salvation here treated of, is of ten thousand times more value than all earthly Riches: So in some measure of proportion you should prize such gifts chiefly as are for the good of your Souls, and may be (through Gods blessing) a help to you in the attaining of Salvation. Your souls are as precious as the souls of the most honourable; and your souls whilest in a state of nature, are in as great danger of ruine, as the souls of the most sinfull; and though you should be as yet out of a state of Salvation, you are as capable of obtaining salvation as the most holy before Conversion. And for your further encouragement I may tell you, that you may get to Heaven without so great difficulties as the Rich: See