If yet the sinner will not come away but stays still,§4 and clings to his darling lusts, the Lord leaves the Record of these his kindnesses upon his heart, and still out of his long sufferance waits for his amendment and repentance, puts him in mind, and lies pulling at him with these cords of his Compassions. Isa. 30. 18. He waits to be gracious: He takes fresh and renewed throws of Patience and travels as it were in expectation of the return of a sinner, Jer. 13. last. Oh Jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean? when will it once be? As a Woman in travel, Oh ⟨p. 362⟩when will the good hour come? Oh! consider this, Is it not a shame for you to suffer the Lord Christ to meet with you at every turn, to follow you from place to place, to attend upon you, in the Seas where you have […], upon the shores where you have landed, in the houses where you dwell, to pursue you in the fields, to hang his pardons at your doors, and to kneel to you at your bed-sides, when you lie down, and when you awake; Oh! when will it once be? Let this day be the last day of sinning, of lazying in a Christian course, of carnal formality, let this time, this night be the last night of provocation & unprofitableness under all the privileges & means of Grace you enjoy: Once at last let that proud heart be humbled, that peevish Spirit meekened, those covetous desires, unclean affections be changed: when will it once be? See how the Lord sends by the Prophet, and pleads with them, and puts them beyond all appearance of any pretence. Turn ye, turn ye, why will ye die Oh ye house of Israel? Ezek. 33. 11. Have ye any reason to desire, or endeavour your own destruction, against your own reason, your own good, my will, why will you die? Plead thus with your own hearts for your own comfort. I have reason to return, but no reason to die; what is most for my good, and the Lord so much desires, Let me endeavour it. See then how these cords of […] compass about the sinner, and lie hard at him to draw him from his sin.
If yet the sinner wil not come away but staies stil,§4 and clings to his darling lusts, the Lord leaves the Record of these his kindnesses upon his heart, and stil out of his long sufferance waits for his amendment and repentance, puts him in mind, and lies pulling at him with these cords of his Compassions. Isa. 30. 18. He waits to be gracious: He takes fresh and renewed throws of Patience and travels as it were in expectation of the return of a sinner, Jer. 13. last. Oh Jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean? when will it once be? As a Woman in travel, Oh ⟨p. 362⟩when wil the good hour come? Oh! consider this, Is it not a shame for you to suffer the Lord Christ to meet with you at every turn, to follow you from place to place, to attend upon you, in the Seas where you have 〈…〉, upon the shoars where you have landed, in the houses where you dwel, to pursue you in the fields, to hang his pardons at your doors, and to kneel to you at your bed-sides, when you lie down, and when you awake; Oh! when wil it once be? Let this day be the last day of sinning, of lazying in a Christian course, of carnal formality, let this time, this night be the last night of provocation & unprofitableness under al the priviledges & means of Grace you enjoy: Once at last let that proud heart be humbled, that peevish Spirit meekned, those covetous desires, unclean affections be changed: when wil it once be? See how the Lord sends by the Prophet, and pleads with them, and puts them beyond al appearance of any pretence. Turn ye, turn ye, why will ye die Oh ye house of Israel? Ezek. 33. 11. Have ye any reason to desire, or endeavor your own destruction, against your own reason, your own good, my will, why wil you die? Plead thus with your own hearts for your own comfort. I have reason to return, but no reason to die; what is most for my good, and the Lord so much desires, Let me endeavor it. See then how these cords of 〈…〉 compass about the sinner, and lie hard at him to draw him from his sin.
