Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

Wherefore that thou mayest be delivered from this seal this night, O consider what a mercy of God it is that thou hast yet time to make thy choice. How many hath God cast off? And now it is too late to choose; God hath determined the business; O that yet there should be time! O that this would move ⟨p. 167⟩your hearts! We are fain thus to labour, and strive with mens spirits to take them off from vain pleasures, to urge the strength of all arguments we can, with all our might; were it that mens hearts were not very sensual, and hardened in their sensuality, it would not be needful thus to strive, the very propounding some one argument, might be sufficient to prevail. It was a speech of Gregory Nyssen, who lived almost thirteen hundred years ago; He that does but hear of Hell, is without any further labour or study taken off from sinful pleasures: Mens hearts are grown harder since.

Wherefore that thou mayest be delivered from this seal this night, O consider what a mercy of God it is that thou hast yet time to make thy choice. How many hath God cast off? And now it is too late to choose; God hath determined the business; O that yet there should be time! O that this would move ⟨p. 167⟩your hearts! We are fain thus to labor, and strive with mens spirits to take them off from vain pleasures, to urge the strength of all arguments we can, with all our might; were it that mens hearts were not very sensual, and hardened in their sensuality, it would not be needful thus to strive, the very propounding some one argument, might be sufficient to prevail. It was a speech of Gregory Nyssen, who lived almost thirteen hundred years ago; He that does but hear of Hell, is without any further labor or study taken off from sinful pleasures: Mens hearts are grown harder since.

But what if I should come in now? I who have ¹given so much pleasure to the flesh, would God accept of me, and regard me?