;58 'COpoq ano family 'Book. yet unrefolved : this is the work that is yet todo ; with- out which there is no falvation : And if thou die before it is done, woe to thee that ever thou waft a man 1 Ex- cept a man be (f) Regenerate by the Spirit, and Converted, and-made a New Creature, and of Carnal be madeSpiritual, and of Earthly be made Heavenly, and offelfifh and finful be made Holy and Obedient to God, he can never be faved, no more than the Devil himfelf can be faved. And if this be fo (as nothing is more lure) I require thee nowwho readeft thefe words, as thou regardeft thy falvation, as thou wouldft efcape Hell fire, and !landwith comfort before, Chrift and his, Angels at the lait, that thou foberly coníder whether Reafon command thee not to try thy flare, whether thou art thus (g) Renewed by the Spirit of Chrift or not ?, and to (h) call for help to thofe that can advife thee, and followon the fearch, till thou know thy cafe ? And, if thy foul be a ftranger to this fanifying work, whe- ther Reafon command thee not, without any delay, to make out to Chrift, and beghis Spirit, and caft away thy . fns, andgive up thy felf entirely to thy God, thySa- viour and Sanílifier, and enter into his Covenant, with a full Reflotion never to forfake him ? to deny thy fdf, and the defresof the Refh, and this deceitful, tranfitory world, antIay out all thy Hopes on Heaven, and fpee- dily, what ever it colt thee, to make fure of the Feli- citywhich bath no end ? And dareft thou refute this when God.and Confcience do command it ? And further. Iadvifeyou, (f) 7ohn.3.5. Z Car. 5.17.Ro1n.8.7jg..Phál.3. 18, 20. (g)Ads 16.14. (h) .21;l'S 2.37..etis 16.36. ,Aaf I I. 23. Cor.6.1,2.Rev:a.7. X. Under»
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