A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

But let us hear, what reason you have, why will you not believe his Word of God, which tells us that the wicked most be Converted or Condemned? I know your reason, it is because that you judge it unlikely that God should be so unmerciful; you think it cruelty to da•• men everlastingly for so small a thing as a sinful life. And this leads us up to the second thing, which is […] justify the equity of God in his laws and judgments.

But let us hear, what reason you have, why will you not believe his Word of God, which tells us that the wicked most be Converted or Condemned? I know your reason, it is because that you judge it unlikely that God should be so unmerciful; you think it cruelty to da•• men everlastingly for so small a thing as a sinful life. And this leads us up to the second thing, which is 〈…〉 justify the equity of God in his laws and judgments.

And first, I think you will not deny but that it is most suitable to an immortal •oul, to be ruled by laws that promise an immortal toward and threaten an endless punishment. Otherwise the law should not be suited to th• nature of the […], who will not be fully ruled […] any lower means than the hopes or fears of everlasting things: As it is in case of temporal punishment, if a law were now made that the most heinous crime• shall be punished with an hundred years captivity, this might be […] some efficacy, as being equal to our lives. But if there had been no other penalties before the flood, when men lived e•gn• or rind hundred years, it could not have been sufficient because men would know that they might have so many hundred years impunity afterwards. So it is in our present case.

And first, I think you will not deny but that it is most suitable to an immortal oul, to be ruled by laws that promise an immortal toward and threaten an endless punishment. Otherwise the law should not be suited to th nature of the , who will not be fully ruled any lower means than the hopes or fears of eerasting things: As it is in case of temporal punishment, if a law were now made that the most heinous crime shall be punished with an hundred years captivity, this might be some efficacy, as being equal to our lives. But if there had been no other penalties before the flood, when men lived egn or rine hundred years, it could not have been sufficient because men would know that they might have so many hundred years impunity aferwards. So it is in our present case.