Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety

Hast thou wronged no man? what! nor God neither? dost thou give to every man ⟨p. 140⟩his due? what! and to God too? thy heart is God's due, Prov. 23.26. dost thou give to God thy heart, which is his due? thy love and obedience is God's due, Mat. 22.37. dost thou indeed give these to God? thy time, and service, and religious worship is God's due. Mat. 4.10 dost thou deny these unto God, and yet boast thou givest to every one their due? or dost thou look upon it as an evil, to withhold from man, that which doth belong to him, and is it not a greater evil to without from God, that which doth belong to him? wilt thou pay to men, and rob God, and yet hold thy self guiltless? wilt thou be righteous towards men, and unholy towards God, and yet hold thy self innocent? whereas the same God that doth command thee to live soberly towards thy self, and righteously towards men, doth also charge thee to be holy towards him, Tit. 2.12. What if thou art at peace with all men, if thou art not at peace with God? art thou not a captive still? what, if thou art in charity with all the world (as thou makest thy boast) if thou hast no love to God? art thou not in fetters still? what if thou bearest no malice in thy heart to any man, yet if thy heart be full of hatred and enmity to God, hath not the Devil yet fast hold on thee? Didst ⟨p. 141⟩thou never read Mat. 19.18, 19, 20. that that Moralist said as much as thou dost say, and yet he remained still in the bonds of his Iniquity? Didst thou never read Luk. 18.11. where the Pharisee boasted unto God himself, that he was not as other men are, that he was no Extortioner, no Adulterer, nor unjust, and yet being not justified was fast bound in the guilt of sin? A moral man without converting, sanctifying grace, is like a Swine in a fair Meadow; that though it be not there wallowing in the mire yet it is a swine still. Oh then stay not here; since there are many now in hell that were not common drunkards, swearers, nor profane debauched persons, let not Satan keep thee any longer bound in thy captive state with this bond of thy applauded moral conversation.