A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

3. Moreover, poor, ha•d hearted sinner! Didst thou ever consider upon what terms thou standest all this with him, that calleth on thee for to turn? Thou art his own, and owest him thyself, and all thou hast; and may he not command his own? Thou art his absolute servant, and shouldest serve no other master. Thou standest at his mercy, and thy life is in his band, and he is resolved to save thee upon no other terms; thou hast many malicious spiritual enemies, that would be glad if God would but forsake thee, and let them alone with thee, and leave thee to their will; how quickly would they deal with thee in another manner? And thou canst not be delivered from them, but by turning unto God. Thou art fallen under his wrath by thy sin already, and thou knowest not how long his patience will yet wait. Perhaps this is the last year; perhaps the last day; his sword is even at thine heart, while the word is in thine ear; and if thou turn not, thou art a dead and undone man. Were thy eyes but open, to see where thou standest, even upon the brink of hell, and to see how many thousands are there already, that did not turn, thou wouldest see that it is time to look about thee.

Well, Sirs, look inwards now, and tell me, how are your hearts affected with those offers of the Lord? You hear what is his mind; he delighteth not in your death; he calls to you turn, turn; it is a fearful sign if all this move thee not; or if it do but half move thee, and much more, if it make thee more careless in thy misery, because thou hearest of the mercifulness of God. The working of the medicine will partly tell us whether there be any bope of the cure. O what glad tidings would it be to those who are now in hell, if they had but such a message from God! What a joyful word would it be to hear this, turn and live: Yea, what a welcome word would it be to thyself, when thou hast felt that wrath of God but an hour! Or, if, after a thousand, or ten thousand years torment, thou couldst but hear such a word from God, turn and live, and yet wilt thou neglect it, and suffer us to return without our errand?