A Call to the Unconverted

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, 2 Thes. 3.2. and that the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God, 1 Cor. 1.20. and Luke 15.17. its said of the Prodigal, that when he came to himself he resolved to Return. Its a wise world▪ when men will disobey God and run to Hell for fear of being out of their wits.

2. What is there in the work that Christ calls you to, that should drive a man out of his wits? Is it the Loving of God, and calling upon him, and comfortable thinking of the glory to come, and the forsaking of our sins, and loving one another, and delighting our selves in the service of God? are these such things ⟨p. 178⟩as should make men mad?

3. And whereas you say that these matters are too high for us, you accuse God himself for making this our work, and giving us his word, and commanding all that will be blessed to meditate in it day and night. Are the matters which we were made for, and which we live for, too high for us to meddle with? This is plainly to unman us, and to make beasts of us, as if we were like them, that must meddle with no higher matters, then what belongs to flesh and earth. If heaven be too high for you to think on and provide for, it will be too high for you ever to possess.