A Call to the Unconverted

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⟩and that you better understood those words of God, Pro. 8, 33, 34, 35, 36. Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not: Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors: For who so findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain the favour of the Lord. But he that sinneth against me, wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me, love death.]

AND now I am come to the Conclusion of this work; my heart is troubled to think how I shall leave you; lest after this the flesh should still deceive you, and the world and the Devil should keep you asleep, and I should leave you as I find you, till you awake in Hell; Though in care of your poor souls, I am afraid of this, as knowing the obstinacy ⟨p. 257⟩of a carnal heart, yet I can say with the Prophet Jeremiah, 17.16. [I have not desired the woeful day, the Lord knoweth.] I have not with James and John desired that fire might come from heaven to consume them that refused Jesus Christ,