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…

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 2 Cor. 4. 4. Any thing else it shall be, but not Unbelief, that they all disavow. I shall therefore speak unto a few of those Tergiversations in this case which are obvious, ⟨p. 15⟩and which are exemplified in the Gospel it self.

I. SOME do say on such Exhortations: What is it that you would have us to do? We hear the Word preached, we believe it as well as we can, we do many things willingly, and abstain from many evils diligently, what is more required of us? This is the Language of the Hearts of the most with whom in this Case we have to do: And I say,