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…

5. And it is further considerable, that these men that are all this while unresolved, about their Conversion and Sanctification, have wit enough to resolve of doubtfuller, and less necessary matters, without any such advising or delays: And they are men of ordinary parts and capacities, for the matters of this world. They can eat when they are hungry, and drink when they are thirsty, without a twelve-months tim• to advise first on it: They can resolve to go to bed at night, and to rise in the morning, without a years or a days deliberation. If they have any thing to buy or sell, they will not deliberate upon it till the market be past: If ⟨p. 471⟩they have their land to plough, or their •orn to sow, or reap, or mow, they will not take a twelve months time to pause upon it. They can quickly Resolve upon their every-days business, their travails, their labours, and all their ordinary affairs. And yet these same men cannot Resolve in seven years time, and seven to that, whether Heaven or Earth should be more loved and laboured for? Or whether a corruptible flesh, a wicked fancy, a greedy throat, should be pleased before the God of Heaven, though the pleasing of it cost them the loss of their Salvation?

5. And it is further considerable, that these men that are all this while unresolved, about their Conversion and Sanctification, have wit enough to resolve of doubtfuller, and less necessary matters, without any such advising or delaies: And they are men of ordinary parts and capacities, for the matters of this world. They can eat when they are hungry, and drink when they are thirsty, without a twelve-months tim• to advise first on it: They can resolve to go to bed at night, and to rise in the morning, without a years or a daies deliberation. If they have any thing to buy or sell, they will not deliberate upon it till the market be past: If ⟨p. 471⟩they have their land to plow, or their •orn to sow, or reap, or mow, they will not take a twelve months time to pause upon it. They can quicky Resolve upon their every-daies business, their travails, their labours, and all their ordinary affaires. And yet these same men cannot Resolve in seaven years time, and seaven to that, whether Heaven or Earth should be more loved and laboured for? Or whether a corruptible flesh, a wicked fancie, a greedy throat, should be pleased before the God of Heaven, though the pleasing of it cost them the loss of their Salvation?