ng back, (turning back again,) is fit for the kingdom
of heaven." And if not fit for the kingdom of heaven, then for
certain he must needs be fit for the fire of hell. And therefore,
saith the apostle, those that bring forth these apostatizing fruits,
as briers and thorns, are rejected, being nigh unto cursing; whose end
is to be burned.

Oh! there is never another Christ to save _them_, by bleeding and
dying for them! And if they shall not escape that neglect, then how
shall they escape, that reject and turn their back upon so great a
salvation? And if the righteous, that is, they that run for it, will
find work enough to get to heaven, then where will the ungodly
backsliding sinner appear? Oh! if Judas the traitor, or Francis Spira
the backslider, were but now alive in the world, to whisper these men
in the ear a little, and tell them what it hath cost their souls for
backsliding, surely it would stick by them, and make them afraid of
running back again, so long as they had one day to live in this
world!

THE FOURTH USE.--So again, fourthly, How like to those men's
sufferings will those be, that have all this while sat still, and have
not so much as set one foot forward to the kingdom of heaven! Surely
he that backslideth, and he that sitteth still in sin, are both of one
mind; the one will not stir, because he loveth his sins, and the
things of this world; the other runs back again, because he loveth his
sins, and the things of this world. Is it not one and the same thing?
They are all one here, and shall not one and the same hell hold them
hereafter? He is an ungodly one that never looked after Christ, and he
is an ungodly one that did once look after him, and then ran quite
back again: and therefore that word must certainly drop out of the
mouth of Christ against them both, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels."

THE FIFTH USE.--Again, here you may see, in the next place, that if
they that will have heaven, must run for it; then this calls aloud to
those who began but a while since to run, I say, for them to mend
their pace if they intend to win. You know that they which come
hindmost, had need run fastest. Friend, I tell thee, that, there be
those that have run ten years to thy one, nay, twenty to five, and yet
if thou talk with them, sometimes they will say, they doubt but they
shall come late enough. How then will it be with thee? Look to it
therefore that