this is not a god to be neglected

If he be good, and infinitely good, there is all the reason in the world that you should love him; and there is no show of reason that you should love the world of sin before him. If he be faithful and true, his threatenings must be feared, and his promises must not be distrusted; and there is no reason that you should make any question of his word. If he be holy … then he must be an enemy to sin, and to all that are unholy, because they are contrary to his nature. Consider that he is almighty, and there is no resisting him … in the twink of an eye can he snatch thy guilty soul from thy body, and cast it where sin is better known. A word of his mount can set all the world against thee, and set thine own conscience against thee too … and if he be thine enemy, it is no matter who is thy friend; for all the world cannot save thee, if he do but condemn thee … He was from eternity, and thou art but as it were of yesterday; thy being is from him; thy life is always in his hands, thou canst not live an hour without him, thou canst not fetch a breath without him, nor think a thought, nor speak a word, nor stir a foot or a hand without him … no love can be great enough for such a God … this is not a God to be neglected, or dallied with; nor a God to be resisted, not provoked by the wilful breaking of his laws … O therefore dwell on the mediations of the almighty.

J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness, p. 168-169,
Quoting Richard Baxter, Works, II:589f.

this is not a god to be neglected

If he be good, and infinitely good, there is all the reason in the world that you should love him; and there is no show of reason that you should love the world of sin before him. If he be faithful and true, his threatenings must be feared, and his promises must not be distrusted; and there is no reason that you should make any question of his word. If he be holy … then he must be an enemy to sin, and to all that are unholy, because they are contrary to his nature. Consider that he is almighty, and there is no resisting him … in the twink of an eye can he snatch thy guilty soul from thy body, and cast it where sin is better known. A word of his mount can set all the world against thee, and set thine own conscience against thee too … and if he be thine enemy, it is no matter who is thy friend; for all the world cannot save thee, if he do but condemn thee … He was from eternity, and thou art but as it were of yesterday; thy being is from him; thy life is always in his hands, thou canst not live an hour without him, thou canst not fetch a breath without him, nor think a thought, nor speak a word, nor stir a foot or a hand without him … no love can be great enough for such a God … this is not a God to be neglected, or dallied with; nor a God to be resisted, not provoked by the wilful breaking of his laws … O therefore dwell on the mediations of the almighty.

J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness, p. 168-169,
Quoting Richard Baxter, Works, II:589f.