A Call to the Unconverted

12. Lastly, if yet you think that God (the Sovereign Ruler of the world, that is everywhere present and preserveth all) doth care so little what men are, or what they do, whether they are holy or unholy, obedient or disobedient to his Laws, then methinks that you your selves, and all the rest of your fellow-creatures should little care. Two Questions therefore I must here propound to you. 1. Do not you care what ⟨image 28⟩men say of you, or do to you? Are you contented that men slander you and abase you, or set your houses or Towns on fire, or destroy your cattle, or wives and children, and imprison, wound or kill your selves? If you will make a great matter of what men say or do against you, can you be so mad (for it is no better) as to think that the Omnipotent, Holy God should little regard what's said or done against himself, and against h•s servants, and that by such silly worms as men, that are his workmanship? Did not selfishness make you blind and partial, you would know, that one sin against God, deserves more punishment, then ten thousand thousand times as much, against such silly things as you. Do you make no matter of difference between a bad servant and a good? an obedient, and a disobedient child? a Son that would lay down his life for you, and a Son ⟨image 28⟩that longs for your death that he may have your Lands? between a faithful friend and a deadly enemy? If you do not, you are not men but something else in humane shape. If you do, then you are somewhat worse then men, if yet you would have the Blessed God to make no great difference between those that love him above all the world, and those that regard him not; between the Holy and unholy soul.

12. Lastly, if yet you think that God (the Soveraign Ruler of the world, that is everywhere present and preserveth all) doth care so little what men are, or what they do, whether they are holy or unholy, obedient or disobedient to his Laws, then methinks that you your selves, and all the rest of your fellow-creatures should little care. Two Questions therefore I must here propound to you. 1. Do not you care what ⟨image 28⟩men say of you, or do to you? Are you contented that men slander you and abase you, or set your houses or Towns on fire, or destroy your cattle, or wives and children, and imprison, wound or kill your selves? If you will make a great matter of what men say or do against you, can you be so mad (for it is no better) as to think that the Omnipotent, Holy God should little regard what's said or done against himself, and against hs servants, and that by such silly worms as men, that are his workmanship? Did not selfishness make you blind and partial, you would know, that one sin against God, deserves more punishment, then ten thousand thousand times as much, against such silly things as you. Do you make no matter of difference between a bad servant and a good? an obedient, and a disobedient child? a Son that would lay down his life for you, and a Son