A Call to the Unconverted

DIRECTION. VIII.

IF you mean indeed to Turn and Live, Do it speedily, without delay. If you be not willing to Turn to day, you be not willing to do it at all. Remember, you are all this while in your blood: under the guilt of many thousand sins, and under Gods wrath, and you stand at the very brink of hell; there is but a step between you and death. And this is not a case for a man that is well in his wits to be quiet in. Up therefore presently and fly as for your lives: as you would be gone out of your house if it were all on fire over your head. O if you did but know what continual danger you live in, and what daily unspeakable loss you do ⟨p. 280⟩sustain, and wha• a safer and sweeter life you might live, you would not stand trifling, but presently turn. Multitudes miscarry that wilfully de•ay when they are convinced that it must be done. Your lives are short and uncertain: and what a case are you in if you die before you throughly turn! You have staid too long already: and wronged God too long; sin getteth strength and rooting while you delay. Your Conversion will grow more hard and doubtful. You have much to do; and therefore put not all off to the last, lest God forsake you, and give you up to your selves, and then you are undone for ever.

IF you mean indeed to Turn and Live, Do it speedily, without delay. If you be not willing to Turn to day, you be not willing to do it at all. Remember, you are all this while in your blood: under the guilt of many thousand sins, and under Gods wrath, and you stand at the very brink of hell; there is but a step between you and death. And this is not a case for a man that is well in his wits to be quiet in. Up therefore presently and fly as for your lives: as you would be gone out of your house if it were all on fire over your head. O if you did but know what continual danger you live in, and what daily unspeakable loss you do