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…

You shall think of them when you lie down, and when your rise up, as if they were written upon the texture of your beds: ⟨p. 109⟩you shall think of them when you sit at home, when you go abroad, as carrying them still with you, which way soever you go. As before God was not in all your Thoughts, so now he will be the sum and end of them all.

You shall think of them when you lie down, and when your rise up, as if they were written upon the testure of your beds: ⟨p. 109⟩you shall think of them when you sit at home, when you go abroad, as carrying them still with you, which way soever you go. As before God was not in all your Thoughts, so now he will be the sum and end of them all.

And if by your Resistance you scape these Considerations, believe it, God will bring you to Consideration, by a severer and more dreadful way. If he do but give your Conscience a Commission, it will follow you, and bring you to such a Consideration, as Judas was brought to. If he lay you under his Judgments, and speak to you by his Rod, and give you a lash with every word, and ask you whether yet you will Consider of it? It may bring such things to your Thoughts, as you were little troubled with before. If he say but the word, how soon will your Soul be required of you; and when you lie in Hell and feel the smart you will then Consider of it. Now we cannot beg of you to bestow one hour in sober Consideration; but then you shall do it without entreaty: Then you will be as a man that hath the Stone, or Gout, or Toothache, that cannot forget it, if he would never so fain. Forget your folly, your ⟨p. 110⟩obstinacy, and unthankfulness, then if you can, Forget Gods wrath, and the torment which you feel, then if you can. Now you were so busy that you could not have while to think of the matters of the world to come; but then God will give you leisure; you shall have little else to do; You shall have time enough: When you have thought of these things ten thousand years, you shall still have time enough before you, to think of them again. You will not Consider now, but, when God hath performed the intents of his heart, in the latter days you shall perfectly Consider it, Jer, 23. 20. & 30. 24. O that you were wise, that you understood this; that you would Consider your latter end,