A Call to the Unconverted

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.

Object. 7. I think you would make men mad under pretence of Converting them: It is enough to rack the brains of simple people to muse so much on matters too high for them.

Answ. 1. Can you be madder then you are already? or at least can there be a more dangerous madness, then to neglect your everlasting welfare, and wilfully undo your selves? 2. A man is never well in his wits till he be converted: He never knows ⟨p. 177⟩God, nor knows sin, nor knows Christ, nor knows the world, nor himself, nor what his business is on earth, so as to set himself about it, till he be converted. The Scripture saith that the wicked are unreasonable men,