A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

Secondly, A wicked man is one that m•• […] the principal business of his life to prosper •n the world, and retain his fleshy ends. And though he may read, and hear, and do much in the outward duties of religion, and forbear disgraceful sins, yet this is all but upon the by, and he never makes it the trade and principal business of his life to please God, and attain everlasting glory, and puts off God with the leavings of the world, and gives him no more service than the flesh can spare, for he will not part with all for heaven.

Secondly, A wicked man is one that m•• 〈…〉 the principal business of his life to prosper •n the world, and retain his fleshey ends. And though he may read, and hear, and do much in the outward duties of religion, and forbear disgraceful sins, yet this is all but upon the by, and he never makes it the trade and principal business of his life to please God, and attain everlasting glory, and puts off God with the leavings of the world, and gives him no more service than the flesh can spare, for he will not part with all for heaven.

On the contrary, a converted man is one that makes it the principal care and business of his life to please God, and to be saved, and takes all the blessings of this life but as accommodations in his journey towards another life, and useth the creature in subordination unto God; he loveth an holy life, and longeth to be more holy; he hath no sin but what he hateth, and longeth and prayeth, and striveth to be rid of it. The drift and bent of his life is for God, and if he sin, it is contrary to the very bent of his heart and life, and therefore he rises again and lamenteth it, and dare not wilfully live in any known sin. There is nothing in this world so dear to him but he can give it up to God, and forsake it for him and the hopes of glory. All this you may see in Col. iii. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.