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

Alas, for any thing that we can do, experience tells us that with the most it is remediless! Could we remedy it, our poor people should not wilfully run from Christ, and lie in the flames of Hell for ever. Could our persuasions and entreaties help it, they should not for ever be shut out of Heaven, when its offered to them as well as others. We bewail it from our hearts before the Lord, that we can entreat them no more earnestly, and beg not of them as for our lives to look before them, and hearken to the voice of grace ⟨p. 19⟩that they may be saved. And a thousand times in secret we call our selves hard-hearted, unmerciful, and unfaithful, (in too great a measure) that speak no more importunately for the saving of mens souls, when we know not whether we shall ever speak to them any more. Is this all that we can say or do in so terrible a case, and in a matter of such weight as mens salvation! The Lord forgive our great insensibility, & awaken us, that we may be fit to waken others; But yet for all this, with grief we must complain, that our people feel not when we feel, and that they are senseless or asleep when we speak to them as seriously as we can, and that tears and moans do not prevail, but they go home and live as stupidly in an unconverted state, as if all were well with them, and they were not the men we speak to.

Alas, for any thing that we can do, experience tells us that with the most it is remediless! Could we remedie it, our poor people should not wilfully run from Christ, and lie in the flames of Hell for ever. Could our perswasions and entreaties help it, they should not for ever be shut out of Heaven, when its offered to them as well as others. We bewail it from our hearts before the Lord, that we can entreat them no more earnestly, and beg not of them as for our lives to look before them, and hearken to the voice of grace ⟨p. 19⟩that they may be saved. And a thousand times in secret we call our selves hard-hearted, unmerciful, and unfaithful, (in too great a measure) that speak no more importunatelie for the saving of mens souls, when we know not whether we shall ever speak to them any more. Is this all that we can say or do in so terrible a case, and in a matter of such weight as mens salvation! The Lord forgive our great insensibilitie, & awaken us, that we may be fit to waken others; But yet for all this, with grief we must complain, that our people feel not when we feel, and that they are senseless or asleep when we speak to them as seriously as we can, and that tears and moans do not prevail, but they go home and live as stupidlie in an unconverted state, as if all were well with them, and they were not the men we speak to.