The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

Poor Sinners! I know that I am speaking all this to those that are dead in sin: but it is a death consisting with a natural life, which hath a capacity of spiritual life: Or else I would no more speak to you than to a stone. And I know that you are blind in sin: but it is a blindness consisting with a reasonable faculty, which is capable of spiritual illumination: Or else I would no more persuade you than I would do a beast. And I know that you are in the fetters of your own lusts: your wills, your love, your hearts are turned away from God, and strongly bewitched with the dreams and dalliances with the flesh and world: But your wills are not forced to this Captivity: Surely those wills may be changed by Gods Grace, when you clearly see sufficient reason for to change them: Else I would as soon preach (were I capable) to Devils and damned souls. Your case is not yet desperate, O make it not desperate: There is just the same hope of your Salvation as there is of your Conversion and perseverance, and no more. ⟨image 7⟩Without it there is no hope: and with it you are safe, and have no cause to doubt and fear. Heaven may be yet yours if you will. Nothing but your own Wills, refusing Christ and a holy life, can keep you out. And shall that do it? Shall Hell be your own choice? And will you, I say will you not be saved.

Poor Sinners! I know that I am speaking all this to those that are dead in sin: but it is a death consisting with a natural life, which hath a capacity of spiritual life: Or else I would no more speak to you than to a stone. And I know that you are blind in sin: but it is a blindness consisting with a reasonable faculty, which is capable of spiritual illumination: Or else I would no more perswade you than I would do a beast. And I know that you are in the fetters of your own lusts: your wills, your love, your hearts are turned away from God, and strongly bewitched with the dreams and dalliances with the flesh and world: But your wills are not forced to this Captivity: Surely those wills may be changed by Gods Grace, when you clearly see sufficient reason for to change them: Else I would as soon preach (were I capable) to Devils and damned souls. Your case is not yet desperate, O make it not desperate: There is just the same hope of your Salvation as there is of your Conversion and perseverance, and no more. ⟨image 7⟩Without it there is no hope: and with it you are safe, and have no cause to doubt and fear. Heaven may be yet yours if you will. Nothing but your own Wills, refusing Christ and a holy life, can keep you out. And shall that do it? Shall Hell be your own choice? And will you, I say will you not be saved.