A Call to the Unconverted

Now as ever you believe the Word of God, and as ever you care for the salvation of your souls, let me beg of you this reasonable ⟨p. 60⟩request, and I beseech you deny me not: that you would without any more delay, when you are gone from hence, remember what you heard, and enter into an earnest search of your hearts, and say to your selves, [Is it so indeed, must I Turn or Die? Must I be Converted or Condemned? Its time for me then to look about me, before it be too l•te. Oh why did I not look after this till now? Why did I venturously post off, or slubber over so great a business? Was I awake, or in my wits? Oh blessed God, what a mercy is it that thou didst not cut off my life all this while, before I had any certain hope of eternal life? Well, God forbid that I should neglect this work any longer. What state is my soul in? Am I Converted, or am I not? Was ever such a change or work done upon my soul? Have I been illuminated by the Word and Spirit of the ⟨p. 61⟩Lord, to see the odiousness of sin, the need of a Saviour, the Love of Christ, and the Excellencies of God and Glory? Is my heart broken or humbled within me for my former life? Have I thankfully entertained my Saviour and Lord, that offered himself with pardon and life to my soul? Do I hate my former sinful life, and the remnant of every sin that is in me? Do I fly from them as my deadly enemies? Do I give up my self to a life of Holiness and Obedience to God? Do I love it, and delight in it? Can I truly say that I am dead to the world and carnal self, and that I live for God and the Glory which he hath promised? Ha•h Heaven more of my Estimation, and Resolution, then Earth? And is God the dearest and the Highest in my soul? Once I am sure I lived principally to the world and fl•sh, and God had nothing but some heartless services which the ⟨p. 62⟩world could spare, and which were the leavings of the flesh. Is my heart now turned another way? Have I a new design, and a new end, and a new train of holy affections? Have I set my hopes and heart in heaven? And is it now the scope, and design, and bent of my heart and life, to get well to heaven, and see the glorious face of God, and live in his everlasting Love and Praise? And when I sin, is it against the very habitual bent and design of my heart? And do I conquer all gross sins, and am I weary, and willing to be rid of mine infirmities?