A Call to the Unconverted

5. You do even forbid all others to pity you, when you will have no pity on your selves: if you cry to God in the time of your calamity, for Mercy, Mercy; what can you expect, but that he should thrust you away, and say, [Nay thou wouldst not have mercy on thy self: who brought this upon thee but thy own wilfulness?] And if your Brethren see you everlastingly in misery, how shall they pity you that were your own destroyers, and would not be dissuaded?

5. You do even forbid all others to pitty you, when you will have no pitty on your selves: if you cry to God in the time of your calamity, for Mercy, Mercy; what can you expect, but that he should thrust you away, and say, [Nay thou wouldst not have mercy on thy self: who brought this upon thee but thy own wilfulness?] And if your Brethren see you everlastingly in misery, how shall they pitty you that were your own destroyers, and would not be disswaded?

6. It will everlastingly make you your own Tormenters in Hell to think on it, that you brought your selves wilfully to that misery. ⟨p. 255⟩O what a griping thought it will be for ever to think with your selves, [That this was your own doing! That you were warned of this day, and warned again, but it would not do. That you wilfully sinned; and wilfully turned away from God: That you had time as well as others, but you abused it: You had Teachers as well as others, but you refused their instructions: You had holy examples, but you did not imitate them: You were offered Christ, and Grace, and Glory, as well as others; but you had more mind of your fleshly pleasures: You had a price in your hands, but you had not an heart to lay it out, Proverbs 17.16. Can it choose but torment you to think of this your present folly? O that your eyes were opened to see what you have done in the wilful wronging of your own souls! ⟨p. 256⟩