I shall conclude.

1. I beseech you, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that none of
you do run so lazily in the way to heaven as to hinder either
yourselves or others. I know that even he who runs laziest, if he
should see a man running for a temporal life, who should so much
neglect his own well-being in this world, as to venture, when he is
running for his life, to pick up, here and there, a lock of wool that
hangeth by the wayside, or to step, now and then, aside out of the way
to gather up a straw or two, or any rotten stick; I say, if he should
do this when he is running for his life, thou wouldst condemn him. And
dost thou not condemn thyself that dost the very same in effect? nay
worse; that loiterest in thy race, notwithstanding thy soul, heaven,
glory, and all is at stake? Have a care, have a care, poor wretched
sinner; have a care!

2. If yet there shall be any that, notwithstanding this advice, will
still be flagging and loitering in the way to the kingdom of glory, be
thou so wise as not to take example by them. Learn of no man farther
than he followeth Christ. But look unto Jesus, who is not only the
author and finisher of faith, but who did, for the joy that was set
before him, endure the cross, despise the shame, and is now set down
at the right hand of God. I say, look to no man to learn of him, any
farther than he followeth Christ. "Be ye followers of me," saith Paul,
"even as I am of Christ." Though _he_ was an eminent man, yet his
exhortation was, that none should follow him any farther than he
followed Christ.

PROVOCATION.--Now that you may be provoked in run with the foremost,
take notice of this. When Lot and his wife were running from cursed