Directions and persuasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…

7. At least methinks you should Consider, how disproportionably and unequally ⟨p. 95⟩you lay out your Thoughts. Cannot you spare God the Tenths; no nor the hundred-part of them? Look back upon your lives, and trace your Thoughts from day to day, and tell me how many hours in a week, in a month, in a year, you have spent, in serious Thoughts of the state of your Souls, and of the life to come? Is it one hour of a hundred, of a thousand, of ten thousand, with some of you, that is thus spent? Nay I have very great cause to fear, that there are some, yea that there are many, yea that there's far the greatest number, that never spent one hour since they were born, in withdrawing themselves purposely from all other business, and soberly, and in good sadness bethinking themselves what case they are in, what Evidence they have of their Title to Salvation, or how they must be justified at the Bar of God; no nor what business they have in the world, and to what end they were made, and how they have done the work, that they were made for. Ah Sirs, doth Conscience justify you in this? Or rather will it not torment you one day to remember it? What? did thy Land, and Livings, worldly matters deserve all ⟨p. 96⟩thy Thoughts, and did not the saving of the Soul deserve some of them? Did thy lusts, and sports, and wantonness deserve all; and did not God deserve some of them? Was it not worth now and then an hours time, no nor one hours study in all thy life, to bethink thee in good sadness how to make sure of a life of endless Joy and Glory, and how to scape the flames of Hell? This is not an equal distribution of thy Thoughts, As thou wilt confess at last in the horror of thy Soul.

7. At least methinks you should Consider, how disproportionably and unequally ⟨p. 95⟩you lay out your Thoughts. Cannot you spare God the Tenths; no nor the hundreth-part of them? Look back upon your lives, and trace your Thoughts from day to day, and tell me how many hours in a weeke, in a month, in a year, you have spent, in serious Thoughts of the state of your Souls, and of the life to come? Is it one hour of a hundred, of a thousand, of ten thousand, with some of you, that is thus spent? Nay I have very great cause to fear, that there are some, yea that there are many, yea that ther's far the greatest number, that never spent one hour since they were born, in withdrawing themselves purposely from all other business, and soberly, and in good sadness bethinking themselves what case they are in, what Evidence they have of their Title to Salvation, or how they must be justified at the Barre of God; no nor what business they have in the world, and to what end they were made, and how they have done the work, that they were made for. Ah Sirs, doth Conscience justifie you in this? Or rather will it not torment you one day to remember it? What? did thy Land, and Livings, worldly matters deserve all