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Now, ye ſee the first benefit ye ſhall get by believing: 1ſt, A freedom from endless perdition. 2dly, The fruition of eternal life. The end wherefore I have ſpoken if these two, are,
Firſt, That ye may ſee the necessity of believing; and that ye that will not believe, may quit you of eternal life, and make you for that endless pain.
Secondly, To ſet before you ſo highly ye ſhould count of the Son of God; that when there was nothing that could redeem thee from hell, and conquer heaven to thee, but only his blood, and that thou mayeſt be acquitted what thou ſhouldest count of the love of God to thee, that ſent his only begotten Son to die for thee. Now, I will apply, and ſo I will end.
Why ſhould yon think that word or work, ordinary or extraordinary, were needful for delivering you from perishing, and giving you everlasting life? For, if less things could have done the turn, it would have been done? I know the Lord is merciful, and loth to destroy his own buildings, and to pluck up the plants which he has planted; ſo, if the word could have done it, the work had not been done? These things that are fallen out, are not only warnings to others, but they are warnings to make you believe. Therefore think not that they are greater
