A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

Not considering that he came to redeem his people from their sins, and to sanctify them a peculiar people to himself, and to conform them in holiness to the image of their heavenly father, and to their head, Matth. i. 21. Tit. ii. 14. 1 Pet. i. 15, 16. Col. iii. 10, 11. Phil. iii. 9, 10.

6. You also fetch your own destruction from all the providences and works of God. When you think of his eternal fore-knowledge and decrees, it is to harden you in your sin, or possess your minds in quarrelling thoughts, as if his de•rees might spare you the labour of repentance, ⟨p. 120⟩and an holy life, or else were the cause of you• sin and death. If he afflict you, you repine; if he prosper you, you the more forget him, and are the back warder to the thoughts of the life to come. If the wicked prosper, you forget the end, that will set all reckoning straight; and are ready to think it is as good to be wicked as godly. And thus you draw your death from all.

7. And the like you do from all the creatures and mercies of God to you. He giveth them to you as the tokens of his love, and furniture of his service, and you turn them against him, to the pleasing of your flesh; you eat and drink to please your appetite, and not for the glory of God, and to enable you for his work. Your clothes you abuse to pride. Your riches draw your hearts from heaven;