A Call to the Unconverted

Once more in the name of the God of Heaven, I shall do the M•ssage to you which he had commanded us, and leave it in these standing lines to convert your or condemn you; to change you, or to rise up in Judgement ⟨image 12⟩against you, and to be a witness to your faces, that once you had a serious Call to Turn. Hear all you that are the drudges of the world, and the servants of the flesh and Satan! That spend your days in looking after prosperity on earth: and drown your consciences in drinking, and gluttony, and idleness, and foolish sports; and know you sin, and yet will sin, as if you set God at defiance, and bid him do his worst and spare not! Hearken all you that mind not God, and have no heart to holy things, and feel no savour in the Word or Worship of the Lord, or in the thoughts or mention of eternal life! that are careless of your immortal souls, and never bestowed one hour in enquiring, wha• case they are in, whether sanctified or unsanctified, and whether you are ready to appear before the Lord! Hearken all you that by sinning in the light, have sinned your selves ⟨image 12⟩into Atheism and Infidelity, and do not believe the Word of God. He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear the Gracious and yet Dreadful Call of God! His eye is all this while upon you. Your sins are registered, and you shall surely hear of them all again: God keepeth the Book now; and he will write it all out upon your Consciences with his terrors: and then you also shall keep it your selves. O Sinners, that you knew but what you are doing! and who you are all this while offending! The Sun it self is darkness before the glory of that Majesty which you daily abuse and carelessly provoke The sinning Angels were not able to stand before him, but were cast down to be tormented Devils. And dare such silly worms as you, so fearlessly offend, and set your selves against your Maker! O that you did but a little know, what a case that wretched soul is ⟨image 13⟩in, that hath engaged the Living God against him! The word of his mouth that made thee can unmake thee: the frown of his face will cut thee off, and cast thee out into utter darkness. How eager are the Devils to be doing with thee that have tempted thee▪ and do but wait for th word from God, to take and use thee as their own? and then in a moment thou wilt be in Hell. If God be against thee, all things are against thee: