A Call to the Unconverted

Well Sirs, look inwards now and tell me, How are your hearts affected with these offers of the Lord? You hear what is his mind, he delighteth not in your death: he calls to you, Turn, turn: its a fearful sign, if all this move thee not, or do but half move thee; and much more if it make thee more careless in thy misery, because thou hearest of the mercifulness of God. The working of the ⟨p. 144⟩medicine will partly tell us whether there be any hope of the Cure. O what glad tidings would it be to those that are now in Hell, if they had but such a Message from God! What a joyful word would it be to hear this [Turn and Live:] Yea what a welcome word would it be to thy self when thou hast felt that wrath of God but an hour! Or if after a thousand, or ten thousand years torment, thou couldst but hear such a word from God, [Turn and Live.] and yet wilt thou now neglect it, and suffer us to return without our errand?

Behold sinners, we are set here as the Messengers of the Lord, to set before you Life and Death▪ What say you? which of them will you choose? Christ standeth as it were by thee, with Heaven in one hand, and Hell in the other, and offereth thee thy choice; ⟨p. 145⟩which wilt thou choose? The voice of the Lord maketh the Rocks to tremble, Psalm 20. and is it nothing to hear him threaten thee, if thou wilt not Turn? Dost thou not understand and feel this voice, [Turn ye, Turn ye, Why will ye die?] Why, it is the voice of Love, of infinite Love, of thy best and kindest friend, as thou mightest easily perceive by the motion: and yet canst thou neglect it? It is the voice of pity and compassion. The Lord seeth whither thou art going better then thou dost, which makes him call after thee, Turn, Turn: He seeth what will become of thee, if thou turn not: He thinketh with himself, Ah this poor sinner will cast himself into endless torments, if he do not Turn: I must in Justice deal with him according to my righteous Law; and therefore he calleth after thee, Turn, Turn O sinner!