Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

3. Thou art loth to part with the Pleasures of sin for a Season, and hereafter thou thinkest thou canst amend all. But consider the particulars, and then shall you see how you are befooled in your hearts and souls. Believe it for an undoubted truth, there's nothing in the World, by which Satan ⟨p. 11⟩more deludes a man, then by this persuading him to neglect his day, and that he may repent well enough hereafter. That you may expel this suggestion out of your Souls, pray unto God that he would go along with his Word, and cause you to lay this to heart, that by his Spirit your understanding may be enlightened to see the truth. Though I make this as clear as the Sun, that it is a false supposition, and mere folly, on which we build, in deferring our return to God, yet God from Heaven must teach you, or you will be never the wiser. Know therefore that this very day God reaches out the Golden Sceptre to thee, and what folly were it no neglect it, since thou knowest not whether he will ever proffer it thee again? And assure thy self, that he is a Liar that tells thee, thou mayst as well repent hereafter, as now: and this will appear, whether we consider, the order of outward things in the World, or the nature of sin.

3. Thou art loth to part with the Pleasures of sin for a Season, and hereafter thou thinkest thou canst amend all. But consider the particulars, and then shall you see how you are befool'd in your hearts and souls. Believe it for an undoubted truth, there's nothing in the World, by which Satan ⟨p. 11⟩more deludes a man, then by this perswading him to neglect his day, and that he may repent well enough hereafter. That you may expel this suggestion out of your Souls, pray unto God that he would go along with his Word, and cause you to lay this to heart, that by his Spirit your understanding may be enlightned to see the truth. Though I make this as clear as the Sun, that it is a false supposition, and mere folly, on which we build, in deferring our return to God, yet God from Heaven must teach you, or you will be never the wiser. Know therefore that this very day God reaches out the Golden Scepter to thee, and what folly were it no neglect it, since thou knowest not whether he will ever proffer it thee again? And assure thy self, that he is a Lyar that tels thee, thou mayst as well repent hereafter, as now: and this will appear, whether we consider, the order of outward things in the World, or the nature of sin.