Heaven upon earth, or, The best friend in the worst of times. Delivered in…

If you see a man give his body to be burnt to ashes, and to be tormented with Strappado's and Racks, and refuse deliverance when it is offered: this is a hard case to flesh and blood, but this a man may have good reason for, as you see in Heb. 11.33, 34, 35, 36. and as many an hundred Martyrs have done. But for a man to forsake the Lord that made him, for a man to run into the fire of Hell when he is told of it, and entreated to turn that he might be saved; this is a thing that can have no reason in it, that is reason indeed, to justify or excuse it. For Heaven will pay for the loss of any thing that we can lose to get it, or for any labour that we bestow for it; but nothing can pay for the loss of Heaven. Read on in Mr. R. B's. Call to the Unconverted, pag. 169. Do you still believe the Word of God ⟨p. 275⟩to be true, and the things contained in it to be the most weighty, and yet will you still pass them over, as if there were nothing at all in them?

If you see a man give his body to be burnt to ashes, and to be tormented with Strappado's and Racks, and refuse deliverance when it is offered: this is a hard case to flesh and bloud, but this a man may have good reason for, as you see in Heb. 11.33, 34, 35, 36. and as many an hundred Martyrs have done. But for a man to forsake the Lord that made him, for a man to run into the fire of Hell when he is told of it, and intreated to turn that he might be saved; this is a thing that can have no reason in it, that is reason indeed, to justifie or excuse it. For Heaven will pay for the loss of any thing that we can lose to get it, or for any labour that we bestow for it; but nothing can pay for the loss of Heaven. Read on in Mr. R. B's. Call to the Ʋnconverted, pag. 169. Do you still believe the Word of God ⟨p. 275⟩to be true, and the things contained in it to be the most weighty, and yet will you still pass them over, as if there were nothing at all in them?