Should they that manage the Public Exhortations, Demand, [And we do Demand it!] of all our Christian Hearers, to approve themselves Real Christians, it is to be feared, the Demand would not be universally complied withal. W• do, in the Name of the Great God, propound unto our Neighbours, all the Faith, and Repentance, and Fruitfulness, and Watchfulness of Christianity; and there is too little compliance, with the proposals. But that our Exhortations may be rendered the more •••esistible & Ungainsayable, Behold, ⟨p. 4⟩the Form wherein they now arrive unto us. Instead of saying, Show your selves Regenerate Christians, we will only say, Show your selves Rational Creatures. Let this One Great point be gained, and we shall go a great way to gain every point. It is not more Essential unto MAN, to be Animal Rationale, than to be Animal Religios••m. He that is not Religious, is not worthy to be counted Rational. The matter between God and us, is now brought unto those Terms, […] a Saint or a Brute. Either become a sincere Servant of the Lord Jesus Chri•• ▪ or else pretend not unto the Name of a MAN; murmur not, O sinful man, if all the Angels in Heaven count thee but as a Beast in the shape of a Man; and by so much worse than a Beast, by how much more in the shape of a Man.
SHould they that manage the Publick Exhortations, Demand, [And we do Demand it!] of all our Christian Hearers, to approve themseves Real Christians, it is to be feared, the Demand would not be universally complied withal. W• do, in the Name of the Great God, propound unto our Neighbours, all the Faith, and Repentance, and Fruitfulness, and Watchfulness of Christianity; and there is too little compliance, with the proposals. But that our Exhortations may be rendred the more •••esistible & Ungainsayable, Behold, ⟨p. 4⟩the Form wherein they now arrive unto us. Instead of saying, Shew your selves Regenerate Christians, we will only say, Shew your selves Rational Creatures. Let this One Great point be gained, and we shall go a great way to gain every point. It is not more Essential unto MAN, to be Animal Rationale, than to be Animal Religios••m. He that is not Religious, is not worthy to be counted Rational. The matter between God and us, is now brought unto those Terms, 〈…〉 a Saint or a Bruit. Either become a sincere Servant of the Lord Jesus Chri•• ▪ or else pretend not unto the Name of a MAN; murmur not, O sinful man, if all the Angels in Heaven count thee but as a Beast in the shape of a Man; and by so much worse than a Beast, by how much more in the shape of a Man.
