Unto, you, I say, Take heed that your Lives be not snatched out of your Hands before your Souls are well provided for. Your Souls are not well provided for without Regeneration; for we are told, Except a man be born Again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nor without Conversion: for we are told, Except ye be […] ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Nor without Believing; for […] ⟨p. 21⟩Believe not, you shall Die in your Sins. O Look after these Important things, they all make up The One Thing Necessary. I am to tell you, and I must loose the Life which I now carry in my Hand, if I tell you not, That Necessity is laid upon you, and Woe unto you, if you do it not. If your Souls are dragged away before you have had a Comfortable Experience of these Needful Things, you are horribly undone; Flatter not yourselves, He that made you will not have mercy on you, and He that Formed you, will show you no Favour. The Souls which are now so much in your Own Hands, must then fall into Other Hands, which how can your Hearts be strong, or how can your Hands Endure at the fore-sight of? Your Souls must then fall into the Hands of God, whose Hands (whose fiery iron Arms) 'tis a fearful thing to fall into. And your Souls must then fall into the Hands of Satan too, Who goes about seeking whom to catch and gripe in his cruel claws. And are these the Hands, that, O ye Souls in peril, ye will rush into? Hearken to that voice of the Eternal God, which says in Heb. 3. 7. To Day if you will Hear his voice. What you do for the Welfare of your Souls, must be done To Day, To Day! Your Souls may have taken Wing before To morrow, I may say as 'twas once said in a worse case, What thou […] do quickly! 'T is the solemn Caution, in Prov. 27. 1. Boast not thy self of To morrow, for thou knowest not what a Day may bring forth 'T is not safe, 'tis a very ⟨p. 22⟩dangerous Folly and Frenzy, to leave a Soul miserable for One Day together. A Renewed man has before now seen cause to say, I would not be in my Natural Estate again one Hour, for ten thousand Worlds; Lest my Death should come in that Hour, and carry my miserable Soul away, to the Torments of the Pit below. O that every one of you then would this Night set yourselves to answer the Calls of the Everlasting Gospel; O that you would this Night make yourselves Happy, by giving up yourselves to God in Christ with an Everlasting Covenant.
Unto, you, I say, Take heed that your Lives be not snatch'd out of your Hands before your Souls are well provided for. Your Souls are not well provided for without Regeneration; for we are told, Except a man be born Again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nor without Conversion: for we are told, Except ye be 〈…〉 ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Nor without Believing; for 〈…〉 ⟨p. 21⟩Believe not, you shall Dy in your Sins. O Look after these Important things, they all make up The One Thing Necessary. I am to tell you, and I must loose the Life which I now carry in my Hand, if I tell you not, That Necessity is laid upon you, and Wo unto you, if you do it not. If your Souls are drag'd away before you have had a Comfortable Experience of these Needful Things, you are horribly undone; Flatter not yourselves, He that made you will not have mercy on you, and He that Formed you, will shew you no Favour. The Souls which are now so much in your Own Hands, must then fall into Other Hands, which how can your Hearts be strong, or how can your Hands Endure at the fore-sight of? Your Souls must then fall into the Hands of God, whose Hands (whose fiery iron Arms) 'tis a fearful thing to fall into. And your Souls must then fall into the Hands of Satan too, Who goes about seeking whom to catch and gripe in his cruel claws. And are these the Hands, that, O ye Souls in peril, ye will rush into? Hearken to that voice of the Eternal God, which says in Heb. 3. 7. To Day if you will Hear his voice. What you do for the Wellfare of your Souls, must be done To Day, To Day! Your Souls may have taken Wing before To morrow, I may say as 'twas once said in a worse case, What thou 〈…〉 do quickly! 'T is the solemn Caution, in Prov. 27. 1. Boast not thy self of To morrow, for thou knowest not what a Day may bring forth 'T is not safe, 'tis a very ⟨p. 22⟩dangerous Folly and Phrensy, to leave a Soul miserable for One Day together. A Renewed man has before now seen cause to say, I would not be in my Natural Estate again one Hour, for ten thousand Worlds; Lest my Death should come in that Hour, and carry my miserable Soul away, to the Torments of the Pit belom. O that every one of you then would this Night set yourselves to answer the Calls of the Everlasting Gospel; O that you would this Night make yourselves Happy, by giving up yourselves to God in Christ with an Everlasting Covenant.
