A Call to the Unconverted

Answ. As if you were not born after the flesh, and had not lived after the flesh as well as other• ▪ Is it not as great a sin as any of these, for a man to have an earthly mind, and to love the world above God, and to have an unbelieving unhumbled heart? Nay, let me tell you more: that many persons that avoid disgraceful sins, are as fast glued to the world, and as much slaves to the flesh, and as strange to God, and a verse to heaven in their more civil course, as others are in their more shameful notorious sins.

Object. 6. But I mean nobody any harm, nor do no harm: and why then should God condemn me?

Answ. Is it no harm to neglect the Lord that made thee, and the ⟨p. 176⟩work for which thou camest into the world, and to prefer the creature before the Creator, and to neglect the grace that is daily offered there? It is the depth of thy sinfulness to be so insensible of it: The dead feel not that they are dead. If once thou wert made alive, thou wouldst see more amiss in thy self, and marvel at thy self for making so light of it.

Answ. Is it no harm to neglect the Lord that made thee, and the ⟨p. 176⟩work for which thou camest into the world, and to prefer the creature before the Creator, and to neglect the grace that is daily offered there? It is the depth of thy sinfulness to be so insensible of it: The dead feel not that they are dead. If once thou wert made alive, thou wouldst see more amiss in thy self, and marvell at thy self for making so light of it.