Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

2. If you defer your repentance, it is a thousand to one that you never repent as long as you live, If your life should continue many years; because not one in a thousand that defer their repentance, do afterwards repent; there are millions in hell that lived under the light of the Gospel who intended to repent, but were prevented by death before they were aware; and it is a thousand to one if you defer any longer, but ere long you will be received into their number; have not you deferred your repentance before this till such a time and such a time? and yet when such times have ⟨p. 260⟩come again and again, have you not deferred it still? and will not your deceitful hearts still find as plausible excuses till it be too late? Remember this sinners, that it is a thousand to one but you will be damned, if you any longer defer your repentance.

2. If you defer your repentance, it is a thousand to one that you never repent as long as you live, If your life should continue many yeares; because not one in a thousand that defer their repentance, do afterwards repent; there are millions in hell that lived under the light of the Gospel who intended to repent, but were prevented by death before they were aware; and it is a thousand to one if you defer any longer, but ere long you will be received into their number; have not you deferred your repentance before this till such a time and such a time? and yet when such times have ⟨p. 260⟩come again and again, have you not deferred it still? and will not your deceitful hearts still finde as plausible excuses till it be too late? Remember this sinners, that it is a thousand to one but you will be damned, if you any longer defer your repentance.

3. The longer you defer your repentance, the more difficult will you find the work to be, because you will be the faster bound in Satan's chains, and not so easily loosened; because you will be the faster asleep in sin, and not so easily awakened; because your hearts will grow the harder by the Jong practice of sin, and not so easily broken; because your sins will be the more increased which you must repent of; because your time will be the more decreased which you are to repent in; so that if it should come to pass (which is a thousand to one) that you should repent after procrastination or deferring repentance; yet you will find the work to be very difficult.