Consider 3. If you do now keep the Lord Jesus out of your Hearts, What will be the Consequence? Truly, There is Danger that he will never come into your Hearts at all, if they be not now opened for him: Inasmuch as according to that in 2 Cor. 6. 2. Behold, Now is the Acceptable Time, Behold, Now is the Day of Salvation! And if you should Never be thus wrought upon, alas, what an horrible issue does then abide those Desolate Souls of yours? We read in Col. 1. 27. Christ in you the hope of GLORY. O There is no Hope of your ever coming to GLORY, if you be not thus United unto the Lord Jesus Christ. If the Lord be not now in you, how can ⟨p. 30⟩you Die in Him at last? but woe to you if you do not so! And, mark what say, every Denial that you give to the Lord Jesus, of a Lodging in your hearts does but confirm the Devil in his possession of those forlorn, doleful, woeful Hearts; and more incurably fix you in the State of them of whom 'tis complained, How long shall vain Thought lodge within you? 'Tis probable that the House in which I am now speaking, it full of Devils; and they Rage, they Storm, they Tremble, at the Thing• which I am Delivering, le•t any of your Souls be now prevailed with, to Entertain the Lord Jesus Christ. There is […] most Exact Notice taken whether any of you do still continue Obstinate […] Refusing, or, which is all one. Delaying, to, Receive Christ the Lord. If you Do 'tis a thousand to one, but the Devil• get some such dreadful Permission from the Lord Jesus Christ, as this, Go, since they won't have me, do you enter into them, as you did into the Swine of old. So the Devils which are called, The Power [on Army] of the Air, will Enter into your ⟨p. 31⟩Souls, as Insensibly as you suck in, The poison of the Air, when Epidemical Contagions are about you; and for your Destruction, as Efficaciously. The Consequence of This, is now like to be your Penal and Final Impenitency in your Unbelief. Thus, I am afraid, And, O Lord, thou knowest I mourn when I think of this! That every Knock which I am giving in the Name of the Lord Jesus at many of your Hearts from Day to Day, does but Ripen some of you apace for the Fiery Vengeance which must Overtake them, That obey not the Gospel of God. But O take a seasonable Warning of the Thing which then will come upon you? It is foretold, in Luk. 13. 25.
Consider 3. If you do now keep the Lord Jesus out of your Hearts, What will be the Consequence? Truly, There is Danger that he will never come into your Hearts at all, if they be not now opened for him: Inasmuch as according to that in 2 Cor. 6. 2. Behold, Now is the Acceptable Time, Behold, Now is the Day of Salvation! And if you should Never be thus wrought upon, alas, what an horrible issue does then abide those Desolate Souls of yours? We read in Col. 1. 27. Christ in you the hope of GLORY. O There is no Hope of your ever coming to GLORY, if you be not thus United unto the Lord Jesus Christ. If the Lord be not now in you, how can ⟨p. 30⟩you Dy in Him at last? but wo to you if you do not so! And, mark what say, every Denial that you give to the Lord Jesus, of a Lodging in your hearts does but confirm the Devil in his possession of those forlorn, doleful, woful Hearts; and more incurably fix you in the State of them of whom 'tis complain'd, How long shall vain Thought lodge within you? 'Tis probable that the House in which I am now speaking, it full of Devils; and they Rage, they Storm, they Tremble, at the Thing• which I am Delivering, le•t any of your Souls be now prevailed with, to Entertain the Lord Jesus Christ. There is 〈…〉 most Exact Notice taken whether any of you do still continue Obstinate 〈…〉 Refusing, or, which is all one. Delaying, to, Receive Christ the Lord. If you Do 'tis a thousand to one, but the Devil• get some such dreadful Permission from the Lord Jesus Christ, as this, Go, since they won't have me, do you enter into them, as you did into the Swine of old. So the Devils which are call'd, The Power [on Army] of the Air, will Enter into your ⟨p. 31⟩Souls, as Insensibly as you suck in, The poison of the Air, when Epidemical Contagions are about you; and for your Destruction, as Efficaciously. The Consequence of This, is now like to be your Penal and Final Impenitency in your Unbelief. Thus, I am afraid, And, O Lord, thou knowest I mourn when I think of this! That every Knock which I am giving in the Name of the Lord Jesus at many of your Hearts from Day to Day, does but Ripen some of you apace for the Fiery Vengeance which must Overtake them, That obey not the Gospel of God. But O take a seasonable Warning of the Thing which then will come upon you? It is foretold, in
