Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

Give me leave to press this to you, for nothing more brings destruction, then this putting from us the proffers of Gods grace; unless we return to the Almighty, humbling our selves there will be bitterness in the end. There's the matter, whether God must wait on us, or we on him? This is the day of Salvation, saith God, and we must take time to think of it, whether it be seasonable or no. Alas

1. By this means we incur the highest presumption: And this is no light thing inconsiderately to be passed over. Shall God offer you such a proffer, and you be so presumptuous, as to think such a one more seasonable? It's high presumption for thee to make thy self wiser then God, to neglect that he prescribes, and that with a promise too, as if thou hadst God at command. If thou resolve to take to morrow, it is requisite that thou have. 1. Space to repent, and

1. By this means we incur the highest presumption: And this is no light thing inconsiderately to be passed over. Shall God offer you such a proffer, and you be so presumptuous, as to think such a one more seasonable? It's high presumption for thee to make thy self wiser then God, to neglect that he perscribes, and that with a promise too, as if thou hadst God at command. If thou resolve to take to morrow, it is requisite that thou have. 1. Space to repent, and

2 Grace to do it. Now neither of these are in thine own hands, if they were, thou hadst ground for a farther delay. If thou hadst power to say, I will live so long, or couldest by thine own might prolong thy life, it were something, but it's otherwise. In refusing Gods proffer, thou refusest him, that hath thy life in his hand. What high presumption is this? See it in Jezebel, Rev. 2.21