A Call to the Unconverted

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I Do now entreat thee, if thou be an Unconverted sinner that hearest these words, that thou wouldst ponder a little upon the forementioned Doctrines, and bethink thy self awhile, who it is that takes pleasure in thy sin and damnation? Certainly it is not God: he hath sworn for his part that he takes no pleasure in it. And I know it is not the pleasing of him that you intend in it. You dare not say, that you drink, and swear and neglect holy duties, and, quench the motions of the Spirit, ⟨p. 104⟩to please God. That were as if you shou•d reproach the Prince, and break his Laws, and seek his death, and say you did all this to please him.

I Do now intreate thee, if thou be an Unconverted sinner that hearest these words, that thou wouldst ponder a little upon the forementioned Doctrines, and bethink thy self awhile, who it is that takes pleasure in thy sin and damnation? Certainly it is not God: he hath sworn for his part that he takes no pleasure in it. And I know it is not the pleasing of him that you intend in it. You dare not say, that you drink, and swear and neglect holy duties, and, quench the motions of the Spirit, ⟨p. 104⟩to please God. That were as if you shou•d reproach the Prince, and break his Laws, and seek his death, and say you did all this to please him.

Who is it then that takes Pleasure in your sin and death? Not any that bear the image of God: for they must be like-minded to him. God knows its small pleasure to your faithful Teachers, to see you serve your deadly enemy, and madly venture your eternal state, and wilfully run into the flames of Hell. Its small pleasure to them to see upon your souls (in the sad effects) such blindness and hard-heartedness, and carelessness, and presumption, such wilfulness in evil, and such unteachableness, and stiffness against the ways of life and peace: they know these are marks of death and of the wrath of God, and they know from the word of God, what's like to be