3. Set the necessity of being found in the ways of God against the difficulty of walking in them. If a thing be difficult and unpleasing, yet if you apprehend it to be necessary, that it must be done, you set upon it; it is a burden to some people to take Physic, but when they are so sick that they must take it or die, they set themselves unto it. Sirs, do not stand disputing, it is a difficult matter to be holy, to love God, to turn from Sin, it is a burden to you to serve God; hard or not hard, it must be done, burden or no burden, it must be done, or you die and that for ever. You must do the things that God requireth, repent, believe, become new creatures, accept of Christ, be holy, or you must be damned; here is no trifling in the case; here is no arguing pro and con to be admitted, these things must be done, or your Souls shall not be saved; if the word of God ⟨p. 62⟩be true, this is true. They are not my words but the words of the true eternal God; turn and see, Mat. 18. 3. M•r. 16. 15, 16. Rom. 8. 13. Joh. 3. 3. Luk 13. 3, 5. Gal. 6. 7, 8. Gal. 5. 19, 20, 21. 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. Rev. 2•. 8. What say you now? do you believe this to be the Word of God or no? do you believe you must be judged by it, be damned or saved according to this word? doth not God speak his mind plainly, and declare his purpose, and his unalterable resolution, that you must turn to him, or burn in hell? that you must repent and believe, and that quickly too, or you must be lost for ever? why dost thou poor captive sinner, stand thus delaying and loitering, crying it is hard to leave my sins, to repent, a burden to give my self to holy duties. Speak Sinner, in the name of God I demand thy answer, wilt thou do what God requires, or wilt thou not? is it not fl••y necessity, if thou wilt be saved? and if it […] fo difficult, and so necessary, why art thou so long before thou goest about i•? hadst thou not the more need to take all the time before thee to do this work that is so hard and yet so necessity. Why then do you put it off till you come to be sick, and till you come to die? are you likely to be fit for the hardest work when you shall be fit for no work at all? dost thou sometime think that this is easy, and therefore dost defer it to the last, and sometime think it too hard for thee to meddle with ⟨p. 63⟩it at all? poor captive Soul!
3. Set the necessity of being found in the ways of God against the difficulty of walking in them. If a thing be difficult and unpleasing, yet if you apprehend it to be necessary, that it must be done, you set upon it; it is a burden to some people to take Physick, but when they are so sick that they must take it or die, they set themselves unto it. Sirs, do not stand disputing, it is a difficult matter to be holy, to love God, to turn from Sin, it is a burden to you to serve God; hard or not hard, it must be done, burden or no burden, it must be done, or you die and that for ever. You must do the things that God requireth, repent, believe, become new creatures, accept of Christ, be holy, or you must be damned; here is no trifling in the case; here is no arguing pro and con to be admitted, these things must be done, or your Souls shall not be saved; if the word of God ⟨p. 62⟩be true, this is true. They are not my words but the words of the true eternal God; turn and see, Mat. 18. 3. M•r. 16. 15, 16. Rom. 8. 13. Joh. 3. 3. Luk 13. 3, 5. Gal. 6. 7, 8. Gal. 5. 19, 20, 21. 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. Rev. 2•. 8. What say you now? do you believe this to be the Word of God or no? do you believe you must be judged by it, be damned or saved according to this word? doth not God speak his mind plainly, and declare his purpose, and his unalterable resolution, that you must turn to him, or burn in hell? that you must repent and believe, and that quickly too, or you must be lost for ever? why dost thou poor captive sinner, stand thus delaying and loitering, crying it is hard to leave my sins, to repent, a burden to give my self to holy duties. Speak Sinner, in the name of God I demand thy answer, wilt thou do what God requires, or wilt thou not? is it not fl••y necessity, if thou wilt be saved? and if it 〈…〉 fo difficult, and so necessary, why art thou so long before thou goest about i•? hadst thou not the more need to take all the time before thee to do this work that is so hard and yet so necessity. Why then do you put it off till you come to be sick, and till you come to die? are you likely to be fit for the hardest work when you shall be fit for no work at all? dost thou sometime think that this is easie, and therefore dost defer it to the last, and sometime think it too hard for thee to meddle with
