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…

III. SOME may say, yea, practically they do say, That these things indeed are necessary; they must come to Christ by believing, or they are undone, but this is not the season of it, there will be time enough to apply themselves unto it when other occasions are past. At present they have not leisure to enter upon, and go through with this Duty: wherefore they will abide in their present State for a while, hearing and doing many things, and when time serves, will apply themselves unto this Duty also.

1. THIS is an uncontrollable evidence of that Sottishness and Folly which is come upon our Nature by Sin. A Depravation that the Apostle places in the head of the Evils of corrupted Nature, Tu. 3. 3. Can any thing be more foolish, sottish and stupid, than for men to put off the consideration of the Eternal Concernment of their Souls for one hour, being altogether uncertain whether they shall live another or no? to prefer present Trifles before the Blessedness or Misery of an Immortal State? For those who never heard of these things, who never had any Conviction of Sin and Judgment, to put the evil day far from them, is not much to be admired: But for you who have ⟨p. 20⟩Christ preached unto you, who own a necessity of coming unto him, to put it off from day to day upon such slight pretences, it is an astonishable Folly. May you not be spoken unto in the language of the Wisdom of God, Prov. 6. 9, 10, 11. You come to hear the Word, and when you go away, the language of your Hearts is; Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: We will abide a little while in our present State, and afterwards we will rouse up our selves. Under this Deceit do multitudes perish every day. This is a dark Shade, wherein cursed Unbelief lies hid.

1. THIS is an uncontrollable evidence of that Sottishness and Folly which is come upon our Nature by Sin. A Depravation that the Apostle places in the head of the Evils of corrupted Nature, Tu. 3. 3. Can any thing be more foolish, sottish and stupid, than for men to put off the consideration of the Eternal Concernment of their Souls for one hour, being altogether uncertain whether they shall live another or no? to preferr present Trifles before the Blessedness or Misery of an Immortal State? For those who never heard of these things, who never had any Conviction of Sin and Judgment, to put the evil day far from them, is not much to be admired: But for you who have