A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

Answ. 1. Is that doing as well you can, ⟨p. 89⟩when you will not turn to God, but your heart is against his holy and diligent service? It is as well as you will, indeed, but that is your misery.

2. My desire is, that you should hope and trust in God: But for what is it that you will hope? Is it to be saved, if you turn and be sanctified? For this you have God's promise, and therefore, hope for it, and spare not. But if you hope to be saved, without conversion and an holy life, this is not to hope in God, but in satan, or yourselves, for God hath given you no such promise, but told you the contrary; but it is satan, and self-love, that made you such promises, and raised you to such hopes.

2. My desire is, that you should hope and trust in God: But for what is it that you will hope? Is it to be saved, if you turn and be sanctified? For this you have God's promise, and therefore, hope for it, and spare not. But if you hope to be saved, without conversion and an holy life, this is not to hope in God, but in satan, or yourselves, for God hath given you no such promise, but told you the contrary; but it is satan, and selflove, that made you such promises, and raised you to such hopes.

Well, if these, and such as these, be all you have to say against conversion, and an holy life, your all is nothing, and worse than nothing: and if these, and such as these seem reasons sufficient to persuade you to forsake God, and cast yourselves into hell, the Lord deliver you from such reasons, and from such blind understandings, and from such senseless hardened hearts. Dare you stand to every one of these reasons at the bar of God? Do you think it will then serve your turn, to-say, "Lord, I did not turn, because I had so much ado in the world, or because I did not like the lives of some professors, or because I saw men of so many minds." O how easily will the light of that day confound and shame such reasonings as these! Had you the world to look after? Let the