A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

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?

Behold, sinners, we are sent here, as the messengers of the Lord, to set before you life and death: What say you? Which of them will you choose? Christ standeth as it were, by thee, with heaven in the one hand, and hell in the other, and offereth thee thy choice, which wilt thou choose? The voice of the Lord maketh the rocks to tremble. Psal. xxvi. And is it nothing to hear him threaten thee, if thou wilt not turn? Dost thou not understand and feel this voice, turn ye, turn ye, why-will you die? Why? It is the voice of love, of infinite love, of thy best and kindest friend, as thou mightest easily perceive by the motion, and yet canst thou neglect it? It is the voice of pity and compassion. The Lord seeth whither thou art going, better than thou dost, which makes him call after thee, turn. turn.—He feeth what will become of thee, if thou turn not: He thinketh with himself; Ah! this poor sinner will cast himself ⟨p. 69⟩into endless torments if he do not turn: I must in justice deal with him according to my righteous law. And, therefore, he calleth after thee, turn, turn. O sinner! If you did but know the thousandth part as well as God doth, the danger that is near you, and the misery that you are running into, we shall have no more need to call after you to turn.