A Call to the Unconverted

Well, If these and such as these be all you have to say against Conversion and an Holy Life, your All is Nothing, and worse then Nothing: And if these and such as these seem Reasons sufficient to persuade you to forsake God, and cast your selves into Hell, the Lord deliver us from such Reasons, and from such blind understandings, and from such senseless hardened hearts. Dare you stand to ever an one ⟨p. 186⟩of these Reasons at the Barr of God? Do you think it will then serve your turn to say, Lord I did not Turn because I had so much to do in the world, or because I did not like the lives of some professors, or because I saw men of so many minds. O how easily will the light of that day confound and shame such reasonings as these? Had you the world to look after? Let the world which you served now pay your wages, and save you if it can? Had you not a better world to look after first? And were you not commanded to seek first Gods Kingdom and Righteousness, and promised, that other things should be added to you? Mat. 6.33. And were you not told, that godliness was profitable to all things, having the promise of this life, and of that which is to come, 1 Tim. 4.8. Did the sins of professors hinder you? ⟨p. 187⟩you should rather have been the more heedful, and learned by their falls to beware, and have been the more careful, and not the more careless: It was the Scripture, and not their lives, that was your Rule. Did the many opinions of the world hinder you? Why, the Scripture that was your Rule did teach you but one way, and that was the right way: If you had followed that even in so much as was plain and easy, you should never have miscarried. Will not such Answers as these confound and silence you? If these will not, God hath those that will: when he asketh the man, Mat. 22.12. Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having on a wedding garment? that is, What dost thou in my Church among professed Christians, without an holy heart and life? What answer did he make? Why the text saith, He was speechless: ⟨p. 188⟩