A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

Hearken, then, all that love yourselves, and all that regard your own salvation; here is the joyfullest message that ever was sent to the ears of man, "Turn ye, turn ye, why will you die?" You are not yet shut up under desperation. Here is mercy offered you; turn and you shall have it. O, sirs, with what glad and joyful hearts should you receive these tidings! I know this is not the first time that you have heard it; but how have you regarded it, or how do you regard it now? Hear all you ignorant, careless sinners, the word of the Lord! Hear all you worldlings, you sensual flesh pleasers; you gluttons, and drunkards, and whore mongers, and swearers; you railers and back biters, slanderers and liars, "Turn ye, turn ye, why will ye die?"

Hear, all you cold and outside professors, and all that are strangers to the life of Christ, and never knew the power of his cross and resurrection, and never felt your hearts warmed with his love, and live not on him as the strength of your souls, "Turn ye, turn ye, why will ye die?"

Hear, all that are void of the love of God, whose hearts are not toward him, nor taken up with the hopes of glory, but set more by your earthly prosperity and delights, than by the joys of heaven; all you that are religious but a little by the bye, and give God no more than your flesh can spare; that have not denied your carnal selves, and forsaken all that you have for Christ, in the estimation and grounded resolution of your souls, but have some one thing in the world, so dear to you, that you cannot spare it for Christ, if he requited it, but will rather venture on his displeasure than forsake it: "Turn ye, turn ye, why will you die?"