Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

I beseech thee by the mercies of God, by the death of Christ, by the coming of our Lord, by the love thou bearest to thy self, as ever thou wouldest see the face of Christ with comfort, as ever thou wouldest escape the damnation of Hell, return at last, and though it be late, yet return at last. But if thou wilt not, let God be my witness, let as many as read these lines be my witnesses, let thy own Conscience be my witness, that thou hast been asked, entreated, yea earnestly entreated to reform, and mend, and turn to God. But in hopes that I may prevail, I beseech thee in the fear of God, give in a sober and deliberate answer unto these following Questions.

First, Whether art thou going, while thou art waxing worse and worse? Dost thou know that Hell is at the end of the way in which thou art daily walking? Dost thou know, that if thou dost proceed a little further, a little longer in this course, thou wilt be among the Devils, those ⟨p. 71⟩cursed Fiends of Hell? Or dost thou know it, and yet wilt venture to dance about the brink of a bottomless pit? who hath bewitched thee? or what hath made thee mad, that thou seest thou art going unto Hell, and yet wilt venture on?

Secondly, Dost thou believe the Scripture to be the Word of God, or dost thou not? And are the threatenings contained therein, true, thinkest thou, or are they not? Wilt thou say they be false, or that they were found out by some Precisians, or are the workings of some melancholy brain? or that they were found out by some Politician, to keep the world in awe? I would have thee know, that to thy eternal sorrow thou shalt find them all true, even to a tittle; and to thy everlasting woe shalt know the truth of Gods Word: When thou art shrieking in the flames of Hell, and roaring hideously among the damned, because of Gods eternal wrath; thou shalt be convinced, that the wicked shall be turned into Hell, that the Unbeliever shall be damned, and that it was true which thou wast told, that without repentance there was no deliverance from eternal condemnation.