Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety

2. Consider that all shall not be saved by the death of Christ that are sinners. Christ hath died, yet thousands shall for ever be tormented, Mat. 7.13, 14. and the damnation of many shall be the greater than it would have been if Christ had never suffered.

3. Know and understand that the benefits of Redemption, & the completing of all in salvation at the last is propounded by God in the Gospel conditionally, and why then, should you be so confident, when you have not come up unto the condition? there is pardon to be had by the blood of Christ, but there is a condition, without which you shall never pardoned, Act. 10.43. there is Salvation by Christ, but there is a condition, without which you shall never be saved, Joh. 3.16. Mar. 16.16. Act. 16.31. there is justification to be had by the ⟨p. 99⟩blood of Christ, but remember still there is a condition without which you shall never be justified, Rom. 5.1. all along in the Word of God, offers and grants of pardon, deliverance from Hell, and the curse of the Law, offers and grants of Salvation and Eternal life are made conditionally, if you do believe, and if you do repent, and if you are converted and born again, but not else. Christ did not die, that sinners merely as sinners should be saved, for then all sinners should be saved, and that which is the reason of men's condemnation should be a qualification of men's Salvation; but Christ did die, that believing sinners might be saved, and repenting and returning sinners might be saved; Christ did die, that unholy ones might be made holy, and so be saved; that unbelievers might believe, and so be saved; and not that unholy and impenitent, and unbelieving persons living and dying so should have Salvation by his death. Know therefore, O vain man, that if thou hadst a thousand souls, they should all be damned, though Christ hath died, except thou dost believe, repent, and be converted unto God; for the effusion […] shedding of the blood of Christ upon the Cross saveth no man's soul, without the application of it to the Conscience; and Faith in Christ, and regeneration and holiness,