A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

And now, either you have reason for what you do, or you have not; If not, will you go on against reason itself? Will you do that which you have no reason for? But if you think you have, produce them, and make the best of your matter. Reason the case a little with me your fellow creature, which is far easier than to reason the case with God; tell me, man, here before the Lord, as if thou wert to die this hour, why shouldest thou not resolve to turn this day, before thou stir from the place thou standest in, what reason hast thou to deny, or to delay? Hast thou any reason that satisfieth thine own conscience for it, ⟨p. 82⟩or any that thou darest own and plead at the bar, of God? If thou hast, let us hear them, bring them forth, and make them good. But alas, what poor stuff, what nonsense, instead of reasons, do we daily hear from ungodly men. But for their necessity, I should be ashamed to name them.

1. One saith, "If none shall be saved, but such converted and sanctified ones as you talk of, then heaven would be but empty, then God help a great many.

Answ. Why, it seems, you think that God doth not know, or else that he is not to be believed! Measure not all by yourselves: God hath thousands and millions of his sanctified ones; but yet they are few in comparison of the world, as Christ himself hath told us, Matth. vii. 13.14. Luke xi. 31. It better seems you, to make that use of this truth which Christ teacheth you; "strive to enter in at the strait gate, for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that can find it; but wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat,