The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

But if you will not think of these things; if you will not use the reason of men, alas what can we do to save your souls? O pity them Lord, that they may pity themselves. Have mercy on them, that they may have some more mercy on themselves. Help them that they may help themselves and ⟨image 6⟩us. If you still refuse, will not your loss be more than ours: If we lose our Labour (which to our selves we shall not;) if we lose our hopes of your Salvation: what is this to your everlasting loss of Salvation it self? And what is our suffering for your sakes, in comparison of your endless sufferings.

But if you will not think of these things; if you will not use the reason of men, alas what can we do to save your souls? O pity them Lord, that they may pity themselves. Have mercy on them, that they may have some more mercy on themselves. Help them that they may help themselves and ⟨image 6⟩us. If you still r•fuse, will not your loss be more than ours: If we lose our Labour (which to our selves we shall not;) if we lose our hopes of your Salvation: what is this to your everlasting loss of Salvation it self? And what is our suffering for your sakes, in comparison of your endless sufferings.

But, O, this is it that breaketh our hearts, that we leave you under more guilt than we found you; and when we have laid out life and labour to save you, the impenitent souls must have their pains increased, for the refusing of these Calls. And that it will be part of your Hell, to think for ever how madly you refused our Counsel, and what pains and cost and patience were used to have saved you, and all in vain. It will be so: it must needs be so: Christ saith it shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment than for the rejectors of his Gospel-calls. The Nature of the thing, and the nature of Justice certainly tell you, that it must be so.