Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

2. CONSIDER that it is high time for you to make somewhat of Religion. Do not hang always in suspense; let it not be a question with your selves, whether you have a mind to be saved or no. This is as good a time and season for a Resolution as ever you are like to have whilst in this World. Some things, nay, many things may fall in between this and the next opportunity, that shall put you backward, and make your entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven far more difficult than ever it was; and the living in that uncertainty at best, which you do, of what will become of you unto Eternity, is the most miserable kind of Life in the World. Those who put far from them the evil day, and live in the pursuit of lusts and pleasures, have somewhat that gives them present satisfaction, and they say not, There is no hope, because they find the Life of the hand: But you have nothing that gives you any prevalent ⟨p. 14⟩Refreshment, neither will your latter end be better than theirs, if you dye without an Interest in Christ Jesus. Come therefore at length unto a determinate Resolution what you will do in this matter. Christ hath waited long for you, and who knows how soon he may withdraw, never to look after you any more.

UPON occasion of the preceding Discourse concerning the Glory of Christ, I thought it necessary to add unto it this brief Exhortation unto Faith in him, aiming to suit it unto the Capacity of the meanest Sinner that is capable of any self-consideration as unto his Eternal Welfare. But yet a little further, to give efficacy unto this Exhortation, it will be necessary to remove some of those common and obvious Tergiversations that convinced Sinners do usually betake themselves unto, to put off a present compliance with the calls of Christ to come unto him; for although it is Unbelief alone acting in the darkness of mens minds and the obstinacy of their Wills, that effectually keeps off Sinners from coming unto Christ upon his Call, yet it shrouds it self under various pretences, that it may not appear in it's own ugly Form; for no Sin, whereof Men can be guilty of in this World, is of so horrible a Nature, and so dreadful an Aspect as is this Unbelief, where a clear view of it is obtained in Evangelical Light: wherefore by the aid of Satan, it suggests other pleas and pretences unto the Minds of Sinners, under which they may countenance themselves in a Refusal to come to Christ; see