A Call to the Unconverted

If you never heard it, or observed it before, remember that you were told from the Word of God this day, that if you will but Turn, you may Live; and if you will not Turn, you shall surely die.

What now will you do Sirs? ⟨p. 122⟩What is your resolution? Will you Turn, or will you not? Halt not any longer between two opinions: if the Lord he God, follow him: if your flesh be God, then serve it still. If Heaven be better then earth and fleshly pleasures, come away then, and seek a better Country, and lay up your treasure where rust and mothe• do not corrupt, and thieves cannot break through and steal, and be awakened at last with all your might, to seek the Kingdom that cannot be moved, Heb. 12.28. and to employ your lives on an higher design, and turn the stream of your cares and labours another way then formerly you have done. But if earth be better then heaven, or will do more for you, or last you longer, then keep it, and make your best of it, and follow it still. Sirs, are you resolved what to do? if you be not, I will set a ⟨p. 123⟩few more moving Considerations before you, to see if Reason will make you resolve.

Consider first, What preparations Mercy hath made for your salvation: and what pity it is that any man should be damned after all this. The time was when the flaming sword was in the way, and the curse of Gods Law would have kept thee back, if thou hadst been never so willing to turn to God: The time was when thy self and all the friends that thou hast in the world, could never have procured thee the pardon of thy sins past, though thou hadst never so much lamented and reformed them But Christ hath removed this impediment by the ransom of his blood. The time was that God was wholly unreconciled, as being not satisfied for the violation of his Law: But now he is so far satisfied and reconciled,