A Call to the Unconverted

I that am but a worm, your fellow ⟨p. 162⟩creature, of a shallow capacity, dare challenge the wisest of you all▪ to reason the case with me, while I plead my Makers cause: And I need not be discouraged, when I know I plead but the cause that God pleadeth, and contend for him that will have the best at last. Had I but these two General Grounds against you, I am sure that you have no good Reason on your side.

1. I am sure it can be no good Reason, which is against the God of Truth and Reason. It cannot be Light that is contrary to the Sun: There is no knowledge in any Creature, but what it had from God, and therefore none can be wiser then God. It were damnable presumption for the highest Angel to compare with his Creator. What is it then for a lump of dirt, an ignorant sot, that knoweth not himself, nor his own soul, ⟨p. 163⟩that knoweth but little of the things which he seeth, yea that is more ignorant then many of his neighbours, to set himself against the wisdom of the Lord? It is one of the fullest discoveries of the horrible wickedness of carnal men, and the stark madness of such in sin, that so silly a mole dare contradict his Maker, and call in question the word of God. Yea that those people in our Parishes, that are so beastly ignorant, that they cannot give us a reasonable answer concerning the very Principles of Religion, are yet so wise in their own conceit, that they dare question the plainest truths of God, yea contradict them, and cavil against them, when they can scarce speak sense, and will believe them no further then agreeth with their foolish wisdom.

1. I am sure it can be no good Reason, which is against the God of Truth and Reason. It cannot be Light that is contrary to the Sun: There is no knowledge in any Creature, but what it had from God, and therefore none can be wiser then God. It were damnable presumption for the highest Angel to compare with his Creator. What is it then for a lump of dirt, an ignorant sot, that knoweth not himself, nor his own soul,