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

Come then, arise, and attend thy nearest concernments. Tell me whither art thou going? What, wilt thou live in such a course, wherein every act is a step to perdition? And thou dost not know, but the next night, thou mayst make thy Bed in Hell? Oh! if thou hast a spark of reason, consider and turn, and hearken to thy very friend, who would therefore show thee thy present misery, that thou mightest in time make thine escape, and be eternally happy.

Come then, arise, and attend thy nearest concernments. Tell me whither art thou going? What, wilt thou live in such a course, wherein every act is a step to perdition? And thou dost not know, but the next night, thou mayst make thy Bed in Hell? Oh! if thou hast a spark of reason, consider and turn, and hearken to thy very friend, who would therefore shew thee thy present misery, that thou mightest in time make thine escape, and be eternally happy.

Hear what the Lord saith; Fear ye not me, saith the Lord? Will ye not tremble at my presence? Jer. 5. 22. O sinners do ye make light of the wrath to come? Mat, 3. 7. I am sure there is a time coming, when you will not make light of it. Why, the very Devils do believe and tremble, James 2. 19. What! you more hardened than they? Will you run upon the Edge of the Rock? will you play at the hole of the Asp? will you put your hand upon the Cockatrice's den? Will you dance about the fire, till you are burnt? or dally with devouring wrath, as if you were at a point of indifferency, whether you did escape it, or endure it? O madness of folly! Solomon's mad-man, that casteth fire-brands and arrows, and death, and saith, Am I not in jest? Prov. 26. 18. is nothing so ⟨p. 110⟩distracted as the wilful sinner, Luke 15. 17