196 NOW OR NEVER, who is the Physician of souls, to be healed by him.' Live as men that believe that the infinite love of God, revealed to lost mankind in the Redeemer, doth bind us to love him with all our hearts, and serve him with all our restored faculties; and to work as those that have the greatest thankfulness to show, as well as the greatest mercies to receive, and misery to escape: and as those that believe, that if sinners that, without Christ, had not hope, shall now love their sins and refuse to leave them, and to repent and be converted, and unthankfully reject the mercy of salvation so dearly bought, and freely offered them, their damnation will be doubled as their sin is doubled. Live but as men that have such redemption to admire, such mercy to entertain, and such a salvation to ~ttain, and that are sure they can nenr escape if they continue to "neglect so great salvation." And is there any controversy among Christians in any of this? There is not, certainly. 4. Live but as men that believe that the Holy Ghost is given by Jesus Christ to convert, to quick- . en, and to sanctify all that he will save; that " except you be born again of the Spirit, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven;" and that "if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, the same is none of his;" and that without this, no mending of your lives, by any common principles, will serve the turn for your salvation, or make you acceptable to God. Live as men that believe that this Spirit is given by the hearing of the word of God, and must be prayed for, and obeyed, and not resisted, quenched, and grieved. And is there any controversy among Christians in any of this? 5. Live but as men that believe that Sin-._is the greatest evil, the thing which the holy God abhorreth; and then you will never make a moek of it, as Solomon saith the foolish do; nor say, What harm is in it? 6. Live· but as men that believe no sin is pardoned without repentance; and that repentance is the
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