And now let me a little expostulate with these ungrateful souls that trample underfoot the Son of God. That value not this love that gave him forth. What is that mercy which you so contemn, and undervalue? Is it so vile and cheap a thing, as your entertainment speaks it to be? Is it indeed worth no more than this in your eyes? Surely you will not be long of ⟨p. 47⟩that opinion. Will you be of that mind think you, when death and Judgement shall have throughly awakened you? O no, then a thousand worlds for a Christ. As its storied of our Crookbacked Richard, when he lost the field and was in great danger by his enemies that pressed upon him; O now (said he) a Kingdom for an Horse. Or think ye that any beside you in the world are of your mind? You are deceived, if you think so. To them that believe he is precious through all the world, 1 Pet. 2.7. And in the other world, they are of a quite contrary mind. Could you but hear what is said of him in heaven, in what a dialect the Saved of the Lord do extol their Saviour:1 or could you but imagine the self revenges, the self torments which the damned suffer for this their folly: and what a value they would set upon one tender of Christ, if it might but again be hoped for: you would see that such as you, are the only despisers of Christ. Beside, methinks its astonishing, that you should despise a mercy in which your own souls are so dearly, so deeply, so everlastingly concerned in; as they are in this gift of God. If it were but the soul of another, nay less, if but the body of another; and yet less than that, if but another's beast, whose life you could preserve, you are obliged to do it: but when it is thy self, yea, the best part of thy self; thine own invaluable soul that thou ruinest and destroyest hereby: Oh what a monster art thou to cast it away thus! What! will you slight your own souls? Care you not whether they be saved, or whether they be damned? Is it indeed an indifferent thing with you, which way they fall at death? Have you imagined a tolerable Hell? Is it easy to perish? Are you not only turned Gods enemies, but your own too? O see what monsters can sin turn men and women into! O the stupefying, besotting, intoxicating power of Sin! But perhaps you think that all these are but uncertain sounds, with which we alarm you. It may be thine own heart will Preach such Doctrine as this to thee.
And now let me a little expostulate with these ungrateful souls that trample underfoot the Son of God. That value not this love that gave him forth. What is that mercy which you so contemn, and undervalue? Is it so vile and cheap a thing, as your entertainment speaks it to be? Is it indeed worth no more than this in your eyes? Surely you will not be long of ⟨p. 47⟩that opinion. Will you be of that mind think you, when death and Judgement shall have throughly awakned you? O no, then a thousand worlds for a Christ. As its storied of our Crookback'd Richard, when he lost the field and was in great danger by his enemies that pressed upon him; O now (said he) a Kingdom for an Horse. Or think ye that any beside you in the world are of your mind? You are deceived, if you think so. To them that believe he is precious through all the world, 1 Pet. 2.7. And in the other world, they are of a quite contrary mind. Could you but hear what is said of him in heaven, in what a dialect the Saved of the Lord do extoll their Saviour:1 or could you but imagine the self revenges, the self torments which the damned suffer for this their folly: and what a value they would set upon one tender of Christ, if it might but again be hoped for: you would see that such as you, are the only despisers of Christ. Beside, methinks its astonishing, that you should despise a mercy in which your own souls are so dearly, so deeply, so everlastingly concerned in; as they are in this gift of God. If it were but the soul of another, nay less, if but the body of another; and yet less than that, if but anothers beast, whose life you could preserve, you are obliged to do it: but when it is thy self, yea, the best part of thy self; thine own invaluable soul that thou ruinest and destroyest hereby: Oh what a monster art thou to cast it away thus! What! will you slight your own souls? Care you not whether they be saved, or whether they be damned? Is it indeed an indifferent thing with you, which way they fall at death? Have you imagined a tollerable Hell? Is it easie to perish? Are you not only turned Gods enemies, but your own too? O see what monsters can sin turn men and women into! O the stupifying, besotting, intoxicating power of Sin! But perhaps you think that all these are but uncertain sounds, with which we alarm you. It may be thine own heart will Preach such Doctrine as this to thee.
- 1Fie fie (saith one) upon this condemned and foolish world, that will give so little for Christ, and salvation; Oh! if there were but a free market proclaimed of Christ and salvation in that day, when the Trumpet of God shall awaken the dead, how many buyers would be there? God s•nd me no more happiness but that which the blind world [to their ete• nal wo] leteth slip through their fingers.Fye fye (saith one) upon this condemned and foolish world, that will give so little for Christ, and salvation; Oh! if there were but a free market proclaimed of Christ and salvation in that day, when the Trumpet of God shall awaken the dead, how many buyers would be there? God s•nd me no more happines• but that which the blind world [to their ete• nal wo] leteth slip through their fingers.
