A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

2. Consider also, what calls thou hast to turn and live. How many, how loud, how earnest. ⟨p. 62⟩how dreadful; and yet what encouraging, joyful calls.

For the principal inviter, it is God himself. He that commandeth heaven and earth, commands thee to turn; and presently, without delay, to turn: He commands the sun to run its course, and to rise upon thee every morning; and though it be so glorious a creature, and many a time bigger than all the earth, yet it obeyeth him, and faileth not one minute of its appointed time. He commandeth all the planets, and the orbs of heaven, and they obey: He commandeth the sea to ebb and flow, and the whole creation to keep its course, and all obey him: The angels of heaven obey his will, when he sends them to minister to such silly worms, as we on ••rth, Heb. i. 14. And yet, if he command but […] s•nner to turn, he will not obey him: He only •i•ks himself wiser than God, and he cavils and •eads the cause of sin, and will not obey. If the Lord Almighty say the word, the heavens, and all therein obey him: But if he call but a drunkard out of an alehouse, he will not obey; or if he call a worldly, fleshly sinner, to deny himself, and mortify the flesh, and set his heart on a better inheritance, he will not obey.

For the principal inviter, it is God himself. He that commandeth heaven and earth, commands thee to turn; and presently, without delay, to turn: He commands the sun to run its course, and to rise upon thee every morning; and though it be so glorious a creature, and many a time bigger than all the earth, yet it obeyeth him, and faileth not one minute of its appointed time. He commandeth all the planets, and the orbs of heaven, and they obey: He commandeth the sea to ebb and flow, and the whole creation to keep its course, and all obey him: The angels of heaven obey his will, when he sends them to minister to such silly worms, as we on rth,