The saints everlasting rest

It is true, a man may possibly preach too much, or hear too much, (though I have known few that did so) but yet no man can obey or serve GOD too much: ⟨p. 146⟩one duty may be said to be too long, when it shuts out another; and then it ceaseth indeed to be a duty. And all superstition, or worship of our own devising, may be called a righteousness over much; yet as long as you keep your service to the rule of the word, you never need to fear being righteous over much: for else we should reproach the LORD and Lawgiver of the church, as if he commanded us to do too much.

If the world were not mad with malice, they could never be so blind in this point as they are: to think that diligence for Christ, is folly and singularity: and that they who set themselves wholly to seek eternal life, are but precise Puritans! The time is near, when they will easily confess, that GOD could not be loved or served too much, and that no man can be too busy to save his soul: for the world you may easily do too much, but herein (in GOD'S way) you cannot.

10. Consider, they that trifle in the way to heaven, lose all their labour. If two be running in a race, he that runs slowest, had as good never run at all: for he loseth the prize, and his labour both. Many, who like Agrippa, are but almost christians, will find in the end they shall be but almost saved. GOD hath set the rate at which the pearl must be bought; if you bid a penny less, you had as good bid nothing. As a man that is lifting up some weighty thing, if he put to almost strength enough, it is as good he put to none at all, for he doth but lose all his labour.