A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

If we should die for it, we cannot get them so much as now and then to consider with themselves of the matter, and to •uin, and yet they can say, 'I hope God will b• merciful,' Did you never consider what he saith, Isa. xxvii. 11. "It is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them, will not have mercy on them; and he that formed them will show them no favour. If another man will not clothe you when you are naked, and feed you when you are hungry, you will say he is unmerciful. If he should cast you into prison, or beat and torment you, you would say he is unmerciful; and yet you would do a thousand more against yourselves, even cast away both soul and body for ever, and never complain of your own unmercifulness; Yea, and God that waited upon you all the while with his mercy, must be taken to be unmerciful, she punish you after all this. Unless the Holy God of heaven will give these wretches leave to trample upon his Son's blood, and with the Jews, as it were again, to spit in his face, and do despite to the spirit of grace, and make a jest of sin, and a mock at holiness, and set more light by saving mercy, than by the filth of their fleshly pleasures; and unless, after all this, he will save them by the mercy which they cast away, and would have none of, God himself must be called merciful by them. ⟨p. 111⟩But he will be justified when he judgeth, and he will not stand or fall at the bar of a sinful worm.

If we should die for it, we cannot get them so much as now and then to consider with themselves of the matter, and to •uin, and yet they can say, 'I hope God will b• •erciful,' Did you never consider what he saith, Isa. xxvii. 11. "It is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them, will not have mercy on them; and he that formed them will shew them no favour. If another man will not clothe you when you are naked, and feed you when you are hungry, you will say he is unmerciful. If he should cast you into prison, or beat and torment you, you would say he is unmerciful; and yet you would do a thousand more against yourselves, even cast away both soul and body for ever, and never complain of your own unmercifulness; Yea, and God that waited upon you all the while with his mercy, must be taken to be unmerciful, she punish you after all this. Unless the Holy God of heaven will give these wretenes leave to trample upon his Son's blood, and with the Jews, as it were again, to spit in his face, and do despite to the spirit of grace, and make a jest of sin, and a mock at holiness, and set more light by saving mercy, than by the filth of their fleshly pleasures; and unless, after all this, he will save them by the mercy which they cast away, and would have none of, God himself must be called merciful by them.