A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to…

2. Consider seriously what thou readest, and work it on thy Soul as far as thou art concerned therein. Medicines for the Body will operate though they are not thought of; but Spiritual Remedies for the mind require its co-operation with them; the clearest explications, fullest proofs and strongest motives about matters of nearest and greatest concernment will not do the Soul any good, unless by thinking it apply them, and extract their virtue; nor will the Spirit heal its lamentable Diseases, if his influences be not answered with suitable endeavours. Work then as he works in and with thee; take into most serious consideration whatever is apt to promote thy recovery; lay those things closest to heart which are likeliest to cure the hardness thereof; inculcate and urge them, and withal cry mightily unto him, who is able, and no less willing to help thee, till thou feelest his gentle force, and comest to a conquering resolution, that thou must and wilt do as thou art advised, till thou dost not only assent to the course proposed as fit to be taken, but art steadily determined, that it is best for thee, that it is absolutely necessary, and must effectually be prosecuted; that by the grace of God thou wilt thoroughly change thy heart and life, and so escape ⟨image 5⟩from the greatest evil, and make sure of the chiefest good.

2. Consider seriously what thou readest, and work it on thy Soul as far as thou art concern'd therein. Medicines for the Body will operate though they are not thought of; but Spiritual Remedies for the mind require its co-operation with them; the clearest explications, fullest proofs and strongest motives about matters of nearest and greatest concernment will not do the Soul any good, unless by thinking it apply them, and extract their vertue; nor will the Spirit heal its lamentable Diseases, if his influences be not answer'd with suitable endeavours. Work then as he works in and with thee; take into most serious consideration whatever is apt to promote thy recovery; lay those things closest to heart which are likeliest to cure the hardness thereof; inculcate and urge them, and withal cry mightily unto him, who is able, and no less willing to help thee, till thou feelest his gentle force, and comest to a conquering resolution, that thou must and wilt do as thou art advis'd, till thou dost not only assent to the course propos'd as fit to be taken, but art steadily determin'd, that it is best for thee, that it is absolutely necessary, and must effectually be prosecuted; that by the grace of God thou wilt thoroughly change thy heart and life, and so escape