Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment…

He knoweth not, when he speaks to you, whether ever he shall speak unto you more, and whether ever you shall have another call and offer; and therefore he would fain speak effectually if he could; but it is not in his power. He knows, that the matter sticks all at your own wills, and that if he could but procure your own consent, to the most reasonable and necessary business in the world, the work were done, and you might scape the everlasting flames: And yet this is it that he cannot procure! O wonderful, that any man should be damned; Yea that many men, and most men should be damned, when they might be saved if they would, and will not! Yea that no saying will serve to procure their consent, and make them willing! That we must look on our poor miserable neighbours in Hell, and say, they might have been saved once, but would not! they had time, and leave to turn to God, and to be holy and happy as well as others, but ⟨p. 17⟩we could never prevail with them to consent, and know the day of their visitation! O what should we do for the saving if careless, senseless souls? Must we let them go? Is there no remedy? Shall Ministers study to meet with their necessities, and tell them with all possible plainness and compassion, of the evil that is a little before them, & teach them how they may escape it? Why, this they do from day to day, and some will not hear them, but are tippling, or idling or making a jest of the Preacher at home, and others are hearing with prejudice and contempt, and most are hardened into a senseless deadness, and all seems to them but as an empty sound: and they are so used to hear of Heaven and Hell, that they make as light of them as if there were no such States! Alas, that while millions are weeping and wailing in utter desperation, for the neglecting of their day of grace, and turning away from him that called them, our poor hearers at the same time should ⟨p. 18⟩wilfully follow them, when they are told from God what others suffer! Alas, that you should be sleepy & dead under those means, that should waken you to prevent eternal death! and that ever you should make merry so near damnation, and be sporting your selves with the same kind of sins that others at the same hour are tormented for? And is such madness as this remediless, in people that seem as wise as others for worldly things!

He knoweth not, when he speaks to you, whether ever he shall speak unto you more, and whether ever you shall have another call and offer; and therefore he would fain speak effectually if he could; but it is not in his power. He knows, that the matter sticks all at your own wills, and that if he could but procure your own consent, to the most reasonable and necessary business in the world, the work were done, and you might scape the everlasting flames: And yet this is it that he cannot procure! O wonderful, that any man should be damned; Yea that many men, and most men should be damned, when they might be saved if they would, and will not! Yea that no saying will serve to procure their consent, and make them willing! That we must look on our poor miserable neighbours in Hell, and say, they might have been saved once, but would not! they had time, and leave to turn to God, and to be holy and happy as well as others, but