7. Lastly, this also must be considered in our treaty; that we Agree upon terms that are like to hold, and not to be repented of hereafter. For what good will it do to Agree today, and to break it or bewail it tomorrow? Why, alas Sirs, we know as sure as we breath, that if we should Agree with you in unholiness, we should ⟨p. 131⟩quickly Repent it, either by Grace, or in Hell-fire. Nay we know that you will Repent of those unholy ways and hearts your selves, either by Grace or Judgement. Nay there are even now some kind of purposes in many of you to repent. I have heard abundance of ungodly men profess that they hope to repent hereafter, and mend their lives, and leave their sins. And would you wish us to come and join with you in a way that you hope to forsake your selves, and in a way that you purpose hereafter to Repent of? I know as sure as that the Sun will set, that every ungodly soul among you, will shortly change their false opinions; and they that derided the servants of Christ, would wish then they might but be door-keepers among them: You will wish and wish a thousand times that you had done as they did, and lived as holily as ⟨p. 132⟩the best on earth: You will then wish, [O that it were to do again! and that my life were again to be lived; and God would but try me on earth once more.] Those tongues that railed against Religion, will a thousand times more reproach your selves for those reproaches, and the neglect of this Religion. You will then cry out [Where was my wit and reason, when I made so mad a change, as of God for the creature, Christ for sin, and Heaven for Hell] Do you think Sirs, that it were any wisdom for us to Agree with you now in that, for which you will fall out with your selves for ever? and to go with you in that loose ungodly way which you will wish your selves that you had never known?
7. Lastly, this also must be considered in our treaty; that we Agree upon terms that are like to hold, and not to be repented of hereafter. For what good will it do to Agree today, and to break it or bewail it tomorrow? Why, alas Sirs, we know as sure as we breath, that if we should Agree with you in unholiness, we should ⟨p. 131⟩quickly Repent it, either by Grace, or in Hell-fire. Nay we know that you will Repent of those unholy wayes and hearts your selves, either by Grace or Judgement. Nay there are even now some kind of purposes in many of you to repent. I have heard abundance of ungodly men profess that they hope to repent hereafter, and mend their lives, and leave their sins. And would you wish us to come and joyn with you in a way that you hope to forsake your selves, and in a way that you purpose hereafter to Repent of? I know as sure as that the Sun will set, that every ungodly soul among you, will shortly change their false opinions; and they that derid•d the servants of Christ, would wish then they might but be door-keepers among them: You will wish and wish a thousand times that you had done as they did, and lived as holily as ⟨p. 132⟩the best on earth: You will then wish, [O that it were to do again! and that my life were again to be lived; and God would but try me on earth once more.] Those tongues that railed against Religion, will a thousand times more reproach your selves for those reproaches, and the neglect of this Religion. You will then cry out [Where was my wit and reason, when I made so mad a change, as of God for the creature, Christ for sin, and Heaven for Hell] Do you think Sirs, that it were any wisdom for us to Agree with you now in that, for which you will fall out with your selves for ever? and to go with you in that loose ungodly way which you will wish your selves that you had never known?
