Send him to my Fathers house.] Not to my Father, but to my Fathers House. It may be, there's ungodly children, there's ungodly servants, wallowing in their ungodliness, send him therefore to my Fathers house. It is like, they are still the same that I left them; I left them wicked, and they are wicked still, I left them slighters of the Gospel, Saints, and ways of God, and they do it still; send him to my Fathers house, it is like there is but a little between them and the place where I am; send him to day, before tomorrow, lest they come into the same place of torment. I pray thee that thou wouldst send him.] I beg it on my bended knee, with crying and with tears, in the Agony of my soul. It may be, they will not consider, if thou do not send him; I left them sottish enough, hardened as well as I, they have the same Devil to tempt them, the same lusts and world to ⟨p. 88⟩overcome them, I pray thee therefore, that thou wouldest send him to my fathers house; make no delay lest they lose their souls, lest they come hither, if they do, they are like never to return again. O! little do they think, how easily they may lose their souls, they are apt to think their condition to be as •ood as the best, as I once through ignorance did▪ But send him, send him without delay, lest they ••me into this place of torment. O that thou wouldest give him commission, do thou send him thy self; the time was, when I, together with them slighted those that were sent of God, though we could not deny but he spake the word of God, and was sent of him as our consciences told us; yet we preferred the calls of men, before the calls of God; for though they had the one, yet because they had not the other in that Antichristian way which we thought meet, we could not, would not, either hear him our selves, nor yet give consent that others should. But now a call from God is worth all. Do (thou) therefore send him to my Fathers house.
Send him to my Fathers house.] Not to my Father, but to my Fathers House. It may be, there's ungodly children, there's ungodly servants, wallowing in their ungodliness, send him therefore to my Fathers house. It is like, they are still the same that I left them; I left them wicked, and they are wicked still, I left them slighters of the Gospel, Saints, and wayes of God, and they do it still; send him to my Fathers house, it is like there is but a little between them and the place where I am; send him to day, before tomorrow, lest they come into the same place of torment. I pray thee that thou wouldst send him.] I beg it on my bended knee, with crying and with tears, in the Agony of my soul. It may be, they will not consider, if thou do not send him; I left them so•tish enough, hardned as well as I, they have the same Devil to tempt them, the same lusts and world to ⟨p. 88⟩overcome them, I pray thee therefore, that thou wouldest send him to my fathers house; make no delay lest they lose their souls, lest they come hither, if they do, they are like never to return again. O! little do they think, how easily they may lose their souls, they are apt to think their condition to be as •ood as the best, as I once through ignorance did▪ But send him, send him without delay, lest they ••me into this place of torment. O that thou wouldest give him commission, do thou send him thy self; the time was, when I, together with them slighted those that were sent of God, though we could not deny but he spake the word of God, and was sent of him as our consciences told us; yet we preferred the calls of men, before the calls of God; for though they had the one, yet because they had not the other in that Antichristian way which we thought meet, we could not, would not, either hear him our selves, nor yet give consent that others should. But now a call from God is worth all. Do (thou) therefore send him to my Fathers house.
