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The Conclusion.

AND now my Work is done, I must leave you; and whether I shall ever speak to you, or see you, or write to you again while the world stands, I know not: My body is frail, and I am a poor dying man, and before it be long, my mouth will be more stopped than it is, and yours too: And therefore it's high time for us to look about us. As for my part, I have with all the seriousness that I could for my soul, spoke to you, about the great and weighty affairs of your Souls and Eternity. I again call Heaven and Earth to witness, that I have set Life and Death before you; I have in the Name of my great Master been wooing of you to accept of his Son for your Lord and Husband; himself for your God, Father and Friend. I have told you what the Lord doth require of them that would be in Covenant with him. I have given you a rude Description of him whom I would have you acquainted ⟨p. 369⟩with. I have told you of some of the glorious effects of acquaintance with God. I have told you of the danger of being a stranger to God. I have told you how thankfully some have closed with these offers, and how well they like their choice. I have further showed you what a peaceable state you shall be in, immediately upon your Spiritual Alliance with this Great and Noble friend. I have told you also of some further benefit and good that will come unto you upon your acquaintance with God. I have given you to understand how desirous the Lord is notwithstanding all that is past, to forget and forgive, and to receive you into favour, if you will in good earnest return to him with speed. I have again and again propounded this match to you, and told you as much as I could well do in so short a time, I have stayed a great while for an answer, I have put the business forward all that possibly I could; because I see how foolishly and madly you make light of those advantageous offers, that are made to you, I have again and again pleaded with you, as if I were ready to starve, and begging an alms of you; nay, if it had been for my very life, I could not have spoke with more earnestness. I have expostulated the Case with you, and asked you several weighty Questions, and you have not, you cannot answer any one of them, but you must condemn your self, and by your own confession, you have nothing in the world to say against the excellency of this friend.