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3. There will a time certainly come, wherein you will repent of this great neglect; although you please your selves with lies for the present, yet they will not do always: you will erelong be unavoidably convinced, that in all your other dealings in the world, you have bin laying out your money for that which is not bread. When a man comes to leave this world, and must then leave all his worldly gettings behind him, and none of all his gain must descend with him into the grave, then will he wish, (and it may be too late) Oh that I had not fooled away my precious advantages! that I had not spent all my time about that which cannot profit! had I but laboured for the Truth as much as I have done for these perishing things, it would not thus have deserted me, I should not have gone thus naked into an amazing eternity. Scorn these warnings now as much as you please, yet this I dare to pawn my credit, yea and life upon, that all those who despite the saving Truths of Jesus Christ, will sooner or later be powerfully convinced of their excellency, and their own ⟨p. 42⟩desperate madness, in contemning of them, and be enforced whether they will or no, with heart-breaking ejulations to cry out of their own unhappy foolishness, so carelessly to miss of heavens market, and triflingly to lose the once fair opportunity of buying the Truth, when there was a price in their hands, and there wanted nothing but an heart to it; but Oh that you were now wise, that you understood this, and would consider the latter end.

3. There will a time certainly come, wherein you will repent of this great neglect; although you please your selves with lies for the present, yet they will not do always: you will erelong be unavoidably convinced, that in all your other dealings in the world, you have bin laying out your money for that which is not bread. When a man comes to leave this world, and must then leave all his worldly gettings behind him, and none of all his gain must descend with him into the grave, then will he wish, (and it may be too late) Oh that I had not fool'd away my precious advantages! that I had not spent all my time about that which cannot profit! had I but laboured for the Truth as much as I have done for these perishing things, it would not thus have deserted me, I should not have gone thus naked into an amazing eternity. Scorn these warnings now as much as you please, yet this I dare to pawn my credit, yea and life upon, that all those who despite the saving Truths of Jesus Christ, will sooner or later be powerfully convinced of their excellency, and their own