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…

O sirs, your hearts are not able now to conceive of it, nor the tongue of any mortal man to utter it. But so much of it we can certainly utter, as one would think should make your hearts to tremble. You have seen it may be, a dying man, in what pangs and agonies he parteth with his Soul: and you have seen it's like, the corps that was left there behind; and seen it laid in the common Earth. But you see not what became of the Soul, nor what an appearance it made in another world, nor what company did attend it, nor what a place or state it past into. O sirs, when the hour is at hand that this must be your own case, it will awaken you to other kind of affections then you have or can have at the reading of these words. It's wonderful that a little distance should make us so insensible of that change which we are all certain will come to pass: And yet through the folly and deadness of our hearts, it is so: But they are other kind of thoughts of these weighty matters, which we shall have the next hour after death, then the liveliest affections beforehand can afford us.

O sirs, your hearts are not able now to conceive of it, nor the tongue of any mortal man to utter it. But so much of it we can certainly utter, as one would think should make your hearts to tremble. You have seen it may be, a dying man, in what pangs and agonies he parteth with his Soul: and you have seen it's like, the corps that was left there behind; and seen it laid in the common Earth. But you see not what became of the Soul, nor what an appearance it made in another world, nor what compani• did attend it, nor what a place or state it past into. O sirs, when the hour is at hand that this must be your own case, it will awaken you to other kind of affections then you have or can have at the reading of these words. It's wonderfull that a little distance should make us so insensible of that change which we are all certaine will come to pass: And yet through the folly and deadness of our hearts, it is so: But they are other kind of thoughts of these weighty matters, which we shall have the next hour after death, then the liveliest affections beforehand can afford us.

The misery was great that the Redeemer did find you in, and which you deserved by your sin against the Law of the Creator. But if you be found unconverted at last, your punishment will be much sorer, and your case far worse then it was before. The Redeemers Law or Gospel, hath it's peculiar Threatening, which differeth from the Law of the mere Creator in several respects: Even 1o. in the nature of the punishment, which will be torments of Conscience for the neglect of a Redeemer, and recovering Grace, which you should never have felt if you had never been Redeemed: 2o. And in the Degree of the punishment, which will be far sorer,