A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

What say you, unconverted sinners? Have you any good reasons to give, why you should not turn, and presently turn with all your hearts? Or will you go to hell in despite of reason itself? Bethink you what you do in time, for it will shortly be too late to bethink you. Can you find any fault with God, or his work, or his wages? Is he a bad master? Is the devil, whom you serve, or is the flesh a better? Is there any harm in an holy life? Is a life of worldliness and ungodliness better? Do you think in your consciences that it would do you any harm to be converted and live an holy life? What harm can it do to you? Is it harm to you to have the Spirit of Christ within you, and to have a cleansed purified heart? If it be bad to be holy, why doth God say, 'be ye holy, for I am holy! 1 Pet. i. 15, 16. Lev. xx. 7. Is it evil to be like God? Is it not said, that God made man in his image? Why this holiness is his image: this Adam lost, and this Christ, by his word and spirit, would restore to you, as he doth to all that he will save. Why were you baptised into the Holy Ghost, and why do you baptise your children into the Holy Ghost, as your Sanctifier, if you will not be sanctified by him, but think it an hurt to you to be sanctified? ⟨p. 92⟩Tell me truly, as before the Lord, though you are loth to live an holy life, had you not rather die in the case of those that do so, than of others? If you were to die this day, had you not rather die in the case of a converted man, than of the unconverted? of an holy and heavenly man, than of a carnal earthly man? And would you not say as Balaam, Num. xxiii. 10. 'Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!' And why will you not now be of the mind that you will be of then? first or last you must come to this, either to be converted, or to wish you had been when it is too late.

What say you, unconverted sinners? Have you any good reasons to give, why you should not turn, and presently turn with all your hearts? Or will you go to hell in despite of reason itself? Bethink you what you do in time, for it will shortly be too late to bethink you. Can you find any fault with God, or his work, or his wages? Is he a bad master? Is the devil, whom you serve, or is the flesh a better? Is there any harm in an holy life? Is a life of worldliness and ungodliness better? Do you think in your consciences that it would do you any harm to be converted and live an holy life? What harm can it do to you? Is it harm to you to have the Spirit of Christ within you, and to have a cleansed purified heart? If it be bad to be holy, why doth God say, 'be ye holy, for I am holy!