Some important truths about conversion, delivered in sundry sermons, / by Increase Mather, D.D.…

Use 4. Let it be a word of Exhortation, Oh convert your selves to God in Christ. Consider therefore the happy condition of all Converted ones; Of this you heard in the first Use. Consider the misery of the Unconverted: Of this you heard in the second Use. Consider also the absolute necessity of this Conversion; you [must] be born again, John 3.7 There's a must for it, you must be so, or else be shut out of Heaven to all Eternity: Of this you heard in the Demonstration of the Doctrine which hath been insisted on.

Ʋse 4. Let it be a word of Exhortation, Oh convert your selves to God in Christ. Consider therefore the happy condition of all Converted ones; Of this you heard in the first Ʋse. Consider the misery of the Unconverted: Of this you heard in the second Ʋse. Consider also the absolute necessity of this Conversion; you [must] be born again, John 3.7 There's a must for it, you must be so, or else be shut out of Heaven to all Eternity: Of this you heard in the Demonstration of the Doctrine which hath been insisted on.

A word or two more let me say, 1. Remember that you are in continual danger of ruin, as long as you remain unconverted. It is a dangerous thing for any man to defer his Conversion one day, or but one hour. I have sometimes put you in mind of an Expression of Mr. Bolton's, who said, He would not be in the condition of an unconverted man one hour, though he might have all ⟨p. 52⟩the world for it, lest haply death should come upon him in that hour, and so Repentance be too late. O methinks: I would not be in my Natural, Unconverted estate again one moment, tho' I might have ten thousand Worlds for it, lest Death should seize upon me in a moment, and so my Immortal Soul be lost. Think sadly of it, you that know not what the new birth meaneth: If death should find thee in thy present condition, it had been better for thee never to have been born; better for you never to have been born, than not to be new born, yea, it had been better for thee to have been a Dog or a Toad, or a Serpent, or the vilest Creature in the World, than to dye in a Natural Unconverted estate: For these doleful Creatures when they dye, see an end of their misery […] but when thou dyest, thy miseries begins; when once thy Immortal Soul is out of thy body, thy endless and easeless woes will come upon thee, without any hope of remedy. 2. One wrd more I must needs say unto you; and there e be it known unto you, that if any of you will venture on still in you r sses, so as to dye in your sins, your blood shall be upon your own heads: