An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

Oh! lay this to heart thou convicted sinner, what offers ¹of mercy hath God made to thee? what calling unto mercy hast thou heard, outward calls, inward calls of the the Spirit of God. Oh! how hath God called after thee, Return, return thou Shulamite; Return, return, return thou wretched wilful sinner, Oh come in and return, what means of all sorts hast thou had to cause thy ⟨p. 109⟩heart to return to God, and yet standest out? think of that Scripture in Job, 9. 4. Who hath hardened himself against ²him and hath prospered? What, doest thou think to harden thy self against God, and yet think to prosper? Who hath hardened himself against him and hath prospered? and mark what follows; Which removeth the Mountains, and they know not; which overturneth them in his anger, which shaketh the Earth out of her place, and the Pillars thereof tremble. And yet cannot thy heart be overturned, nor tremble? In this that thou refusest to return, thy sin is aggravated above the sin of the Devils themselves, for we do not ³know that ever the Devils refused to return; for they were never offered mercy, God did never offer the Devils mercy, God never sent to preach to them, either by his Ministers, or Spirit, and to call them to return and you shall have mercy; here's a price paid, here's a salvation for you, your sins may be pardoned; the Devil had never such an offer, Who knows what the Devil might do if such an offer were made to him? But now these offers are made to thee, and thou refusest to return; Oh! return therefore, O thou sinful soul who art wandering from God in the ways of death and destruction, give in thine answer; as we read in Jer. 3. 22. where ⁴the Lord there calls his back-sliding children, Return, ye back-sliding children, and I will heal your back slidings. Mark the answer that they give to God, Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God. Oh! that there