Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

It is to as little purpose to say, Object. You will then send for the Minister to instruct you, to pray with you, &c.

For, what if you do? your case may be such, that all the good Men, Ans. good Ministers, good Instructions, good Counsels in the World may not help you, not save you: All may come too late, and signify no more to your Souls than Physicians and Physic, at that time, do to your Bodies. Alas what can Ministers do for you? Can their instructions enlighten your minds when God hath blinded them? Can their counsels soften your hearts, when he hath hardened them? Can the breath of prayer waft your Souls to Heaven, in the last moment of your life, when you have been steering towards Hell all your days? What can your Spiritual Physicians do for the cure of your Souls, when the great Physician of all hath left you as incurable, and will never any more visit you?

For, what if you do? your case may be such, that all the good Men, Ans. good Ministers, good Instructions, good Counsels in the World may not help you, not save you: All may come too late, and signifie no more to your Souls than Physitians and Physick, at that time, do to your Bodies. Alas what can Ministers do for you? Can their instructions enlighten your minds when God hath blinded them? Can their counsels soften your hearts, when he hath hardned them? Can the breath of prayer waft your Souls to Heaven, in the last moment of your life, when you have been stearing towards Hell all your days? What can your Spiritual Physitians do for the cure of your Souls, when the great Physitian of all hath left you as incurable, and will never any more visit you?

Do not tell me, on the other side, That repentance is Gods gift, Object. and you cannot have it till he give it you, and therefore you must tarry till he do. For,