would you have him bring you to heaven, whether you would or no; or would you have him bring you and your sins to heaven together? Why, that is an impossibility, you may as well expect he should turn the sun into darkness. What. an unsanctified fleshly heart be in heaven! it cannot be; "there entereth nothing that is unclean, Rev. xxi. 17. For what communication hath life with darkness, or Christ with Belial? 2. Cor. vi. 14, 15. All the day ⟨p. 109⟩long hath he stretched out his hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people.' Rom. x. 25. What will you do now? Will you cry to God for mercy? Why, God called upon you to have mercy upon yourselves, & you would not. Ministers see the poisoned cup in the drunkard's hand-and tell him there is poison in it, and desire him to have mercy on his soul, and forbear, and he will not hear us; drink it he must and will; he loves it, and therefore though hell comes next, he says he cannot help it. What should one say to such men as these? We tell the ungodly careless worldling, "It is not such a life will serve the turn, or ever bring you to heaven." If a bear were at your back, you would mend your pace; and when the curse of God is at your back, and satan and hell are at your back, will you not stir, but ask, What needs all this ado? Is an immortal soul of no more worth? O, have mercy upon yourselves! But they will have no mercy upon themselves, nor once regard us. We tell them the end will be bitter, who can dwell with the everlasting fire? And yet they will have no mercy upon themselves. And yet, will these shameless wretches say, that God is more merciful than to condemn them, when it is themselves that cruelly and unmercifully run upon condemnation, and if we should go to them with our hats in our hands, and entreat them, we cannot stop them, but to hell they will go, and yet will not believe that they are going thither, if we beg of them for the sake of God that made them and preserved them, for the sake of Christ who died for them, for the sake of their ⟨p. 110⟩own poor souls, to pity themselves, and go no further in the way to hell, but come to Christ, while his arms are open, and enter into the state of life while the doors stand open, and now take mercy while mercy may be had, but they will not be persuaded.
would you have him bring you to heaven, whether you would or no; or would you have him bring you and your sins to heaven together? Why, that is an impossibility, you may as well expect he should turn the sun into darkness. What. an unsanctified fleshly heart be in heaven! it cannot be; "there entereth nothing that is unclean, Rev. xxi. 17. For what communication hath life with darkness, or Christ with Belial? 2. Cor. vi. 14, 15. All the day ⟨p. 109⟩long hath he stretched out his hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people.' Rom. x. 25. What will you do now? Will you cry to God for mercy? Why, God called upon you to have mercy upon yourselves, & you would not. Ministers see the poisoned cup in the drunkard's hand-and tell him there is poison in it, and defire him to have mercy on his soul, and forbear, and he will not hear us; drink it he must and will; he loves it, and therefore though hell comes next, he says he cannot help it. What should one say to such men as these? We tell the ungodly careless worldling, "It is not such a life will serve the turn, or ever bring you to heaven." If a bear were at your back, you would mend your pace; and when the curse of God is at your back, and satan and hell are at your back, will you not stir, but ask, What needs all this ado? Is an immortal soul of no more worth? O, have mercy upon yourselves! But they will have no mercy upon themselves, nor once regard us. We tell them the end will be bitter, who can dwell with the everlasting fire? And yet they will have no mercy upon themselves. And yet, will these shameless wretches say, that God is more merciful than to condemn them, when it is themselves that cruelly and unmercifully run upon condemnation, and if we should go to them with our hats in our hands, and intreat them, we cannot stop them, but to hell they will go, and yet will not believe that they are going thither, if we beg of them for the sake of God that made them and preserved them, for the sake of Christ who died for them, for the sake of their ⟨p. 110⟩own poor souls, to pity themselves, and go no further in the way to hell, but come to Christ, while his arms are open, and enter into the state of life while the doors stand open, and now take mercy while mercy may be had, but they will not be persuaded.
