534- AN EPISTLE To THE and another to hell, to so vast, so amazing a difference of states, if there be no great difference between them here ? If holiness no more differeneed Christians from others, than saying a sermon, or saying over a ,prayer, cloth difference one from an infidel, where were, the ,justice of God in saving some and damning others ? And what were Christianity better than the religion of Antonine, Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Cicero, Plutarch, and others, if not much worse ? Go into London streets, and when you have talked with living prudent men, then go to the painter's shop, and see a comely picture ; and to the looking - glass, and see the appear- ance of each passenger in a glass ; and to the periwig - shops, and see a wooden head with a periwig upon the block ; and you have something like the difference of a holy soul, and of a dead and dressed formal hypocrite. Quest. 19. Ask them, Whether kings and all men make not a difference between man and man :. the loyal and perfïdiOus, the obedient and disobedient? and, whether they difference not themselves, between' a friend and a foe, one that loveth them, and one that robbeth, hateth, or would kill them ? And shall not the most Holy God make more difference between the righteous and the wicked ? Quest. 20. But if they are dead in every point, save carnal interest, ask them why they are preachers or priests ? And if Conversion and Holiness be a needless thing, what use are they themselves of? And why must the country be troubled with them, and pay them tithes, and owe them reverence ? When these twenty questions are well answered, conclude you may be saved without conversion. But if, poor soul, thou art fully convinced, and asketh, What shall I do to be converted ? The Lord make thee willing, and save thee from by pocrissy, and i will quickly tell thee in a few words. 1, Give .not over sober thinking of these things, till thy heart be changed. 2. Corne to Christ, and take him for thy Saviour
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