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

8. Consider, This Righteousness of Christ is freely held forth and offered unto you in the Gospel; yea, the Lord Jesus Christ is earnestly soliciting and wooing of you to accept of it: it will therefore be your own fault if at last you shall go without it: God himself hath provided it, Jesus Christ hath wrought it out, and there now wants nothing else but your cordial accepting of it to make it yours; and if now after all this you shall be so foolish as carelessly to neglect it, or wilfully to reject it, and are thereupon found in the last day to be without it, how bitter and heart piercing a reflection must it needs be for you to remember, that once there was a time when Jesus Christ offered himself to you, to be your security against the wrath of God, and the courses of his holy Law, yea pressed you, and with great solicitousness entreated you to accept of him as such, and waited long upon you, as one loth to receive a denial at your hands, and ⟨p. 131⟩yet you scorned him and made light of him: •now then and be assured, that this Righteousness of Christ, is so presented in the Gospel-offer, that it is made sure for every one that comes within the reach of the publication of it, and feels in himself an absolute necessity of it, and is made willing to accept of it upon Gospel terms; and they are no other but an hearty forsaking of every others object of trust or affiance which men have ignorantly and foolishly chosen to themselves, and a casting themselves wholly upon Christ, for peace with God, and all his other concomitant benefits: and I am here once more in Gods name solemnly to acquaint you with this message; That although you have many, and many a time despised, and set it at naught, though you have stopped your earn against it, and desperately refused to hearken to these fair terms but have chosen rather to go without it, then part with the least lust only for the sake of it; it yet may be made yours, there is a possibility still of obtaining it, if so be that you have any heart unto it; and do therefore entreat you by the love which you bear to your immortal Souls, and desires you have not to be cast in the Judgment and so lost for ever, that you do no more ⟨p. 132⟩put it away from you, left for so doing you come to rue it eternally, and confess your madness, when there is not reparation;