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…

I will bear the Indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute Judgment for me: He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his Righteousness. If the wicked cast in his teeth his profession, and the name of his God, he rejoiceth that he is counted worthy to suffer for that Name, and yet he will hope to see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the living. And if he must go to Heaven through poverty, and a mean estate, he hath learned to want, as well as to abound, and in what estate soever he be, therewith to be contented. And so in the work of Conversion it self, for want of Resolution, many stick long in the birth, and they are hanging so long between Heaven and Hell, that it's a wonder of Mercy that God doth not cut them off and let them perish. But the well Resolved Soul doth deal more faithfully with the light that is revealed to him, and doth not stand struggling so long against it, nor hold Christ and his Spirit so long in hand; but is glad to make sure work in ⟨p. 502⟩so great a business, and take so good a match while it is offered: And being engaged once, he is firm as Mount Zion, that cannot be moved. Resolve therefore that your work may be the more easy, and successful; and conquer by Resolving.

I will bear the Indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, untill he plead my cause, and execute Judgment for me: He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his Righteousness. If the wicked cast in his teeth his profession, and the name of his God, he rejoiceth that he is counted worthy to suffer for that Name, and yet he will hope to see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the living. And if he must go to Heaven through poverty, and a mean estate, he hath learned to want, as well as to abound, and in what estate soever he be, therewith to be contented. And so in the work of Conversion it self, for want of Resolution, many stick long in the birth, and they are hanging so long between Heaven and Hell, that it's a wonder of Mercy that God doth not cut them off and let them perish. But the well Resolved Soul doth deal more faithfully with the light that is revealed to him, and doth not stand strugling so long against it, nor hold Christ and his Spirit so long in hand; but is glad to make sure work in ⟨p. 502⟩so great a business, and take so good a match while it is offered: And being engaged once, he is firm as Mount Zion, that cannot be moved. Resolve therefore that your work may be the more easy, and successfull; and conquer by Resolving.