Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety

2. What if the rich and the poor were sick of the same disease, and there was but one only remedy for the recovering of both, would the rich refuse the only remedy because the poor do make use of it? Would they rather die, and go unto their graves, or lie in pain rather than use the same remedy that the meaner Sort are cured by? this is the very case, a Prince and a beggar, the noble and the ignoble, high and low, rich and poor, are sick of the same Soul-distempers, all are all alike guilty of and polluted with Original Sin, all are by Nature children of wrath, under the curse of the Law, have deserved the damnation of hell; and there is but one only way of Salvation, one only Redeemer and Saviour, Act. 4.12. and the way and means to be ⟨p. 58⟩partakers of Christ and his benefits is one and the same to all; God hath not prescribed one way of Salvation, to the rich, and another to the poor; but the same to both; must the poor believe, so must the rich, or be damned; must the poor be holy and converted, so must the rich, or else never see God, nor enter into his Kingdom; will you then rather perish for ever, than be saved the same way, and by the same means, that the poorer sort are saved by? If you are so stout and proud, and high-minded, for this Reason to neglect God, let him alone, and for this Reason to reject Christ, let him alone, and in the end see who will have cause to complain, God or you, and who will have the worst of it, the poor or you.

3. If it be the pleasure of God, to call and convert the meaner sort of people, to bestow his son, his spirit & his Grace upon them, what have you to do to quarrel with God, or be offended at the method of his Grace? Is not Christ God's own gift, and his Grace and Kingdom, and eternal life his own gift, and in his own power, and may he not give it to whom he will? what if God hath chosen the poor in this world to make them rich in faith, and to be heirs of glory, Jam. 2.5