The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

Well, put me not off with a dilatory answer. Tell not me of hereafter. I must have your present consent. If you be not now resolved, while the Lord is treating with you, and wooing of you, much less are you like to be hereafter, when these impressions are worn out, and you are hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Will you give me your hands? Will you set open the doors, and give the Lord Jesus the full and present possession? Will you put in your names into his Covenant? Will you subscribe? What do you resolve upon? If you are still upon your delays, my labour is lost, and all is like to come to nothing. Fain I would, that you should now put in your adventures. Come, cast in your lot, make your choice. Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation: to day if you will hear his voice. Why should not this be the day from whence thou shouldest be able to date thine happiness? why shouldest thou venture a day longer, in this dangerous and dreadful condition? What if God should this night require thy soul? O that thou mightest know, in this thy day, the things that belong unto thy peace, before they be hid from thine eyes! Luke 16. 42. This is thy day, and 'tis but a day. John 9. 4. Others have had ⟨p. 205⟩their day, and have received their doom; and now art thou brought upon the stage of this world, here to act thy part, for a whole eternity Remember, thou art now upon thy good behaviour for everlasting. If thou make not a wise choice now, thou art undone for ever. Look what thy present choice is, such must thine eternal condition be. Luke 10. 42. Luke 16. 25. Prov. 1. 27, 28, 29.

Well, put me not off with a dilatory answer. Tell not me of hereafter. I must have your present consent. If you be not now resolved, while the Lord is treating with you, and woing of you, much less are you like to be hereafter, when these impressions are worn out, and you are hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Will you give me your hands? Will you set open the doors, and give the Lord Jesus the full and present possession? Will you put in your names into his Covenant? Will you subscribe? What do you resolve upon? If you are still upon your delays, my labour is lost, and all is like to come to nothing. Fain I would, that you should now put in your adventures. Come, cast in your lot, make your choice. Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation: to day if you will hear his voice. Why should not this be the day from whence thou shouldest be able to date thine happiness? why shouldest thou venture a day longer, in this dangerous and dreadful condition? What if God should this night require thy soul? O that thou mightest know, in this thy day, the things that belong unto thy peace, before they be hid from thine eyes! Luke 16. 42. This is thy day, and 'tis but a day.