A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

1. In general, though more especially to Unbelievers: the counsel here is, That as we desire to stand justified before our great Judg, when we shall come to be judged by him, we labour to make sure of an undeceiving title to the Righteousness of Christ by Faith in ⟨p. 116⟩him. This is the great concern of all the children of men that come within the sound of the Gospel, the main thing which all […] dams Posterity have to be […] out after and yet alas, how few are there among all this company, who mind or have any regard to it? It is one of the principal artifices of Satan, that great adversary of Souls, to lull men into a quiet sleep of carnal security and persuade them to live in the world altogether unconcerned about the hazardous estate of their Souls, and if possible, he will prevent them from ever so much as considering how the case is like to go with them in the great day of Accounts: whence it comes to pass, that the greatest part of this number do unhappily leave this great affair unprovided for: Or if at any time he sees men to be under some ro•zngs and awakenings; if they begin to be a little troubled about their present state, and in fears of the issue of it; if some beams of light are darted into them, and they feel some tokens of Divine Displeasure, and think what they shall do to escape it, he will be sure to do what he can to gull them into some groundless hopes, whereby they may be cheated into a Fools Paradise, and so go on quietly in the ways of destruction, like an Ox to the slaughter, and know not that ⟨p. 117⟩it is for their lives, till it be too late, and there be no recovery: give me leave then to offer some rousing motives, to quicken you to this work.

1. In general, though more especially to Unbelievers: the counsel here is, That as we desire to stand justified before our great Judg, when we shall come to be judged by him, we labour to make sure of an undeceiving title to the Righteousness of Christ by Faith in ⟨p. 116⟩him. This is the great concern of all the children of men that come within the sound of the Gospel, the main thing which all 〈…〉 dams Posterity have to be out after and yet alas, how few are there among all this company, who mind or have any regard to it? It is one of the principal artifices of Satan, that great adversary of Souls, to lull men into a quiet sleep of carnal security and perswade them to live in the world altogether unconcerned about the hazardous estate of their Souls, and if possible, he will prevent them from ever so much as considering how the case is like to go with them in the great day of Accounts: whence it comes to pass, that the greatest part of this number do unhappily leave this great affair unprovided for: Or if at any time he sees men to be under some rozngs and awakenings; if they begin to be a little troubled about their present state, and in fears of the issue of it; if some beams of light are darted into them, and they feel some tokens of Divine Displeasure, and think what they shall do to escape it, he will be sure to do what he can to gull them into some groundless hopes, whereby they may be cheated into a Fools Paradise, and so go on quietly in the ways of destruction, like an Ox to the slaughter, and know not that