A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

Methinks now, upon the consideration of what is said, and the review of your own ways, you should bethink you what you have done, and be ashamed, and deeply humbled, to remember it. If you be not, I pray you consider these following truths:

1. To be your own destroyers, it to sin against ⟨p. 123⟩the deepest principle of your natures, even the principle of self preservation. Every thing naturally desireth or inclineth to its own felicity, welfare, or perfection. And will you set yourselves to your own destruction? When you are commanded to love your neighbours as yourselves; it is supposed that you naturally love yourselves. But if you love your neighbours no better than yourselves, it seems, you would have all the world damned. 2. How extremely do you cross your own intentions? I know you intend […] your own damnation, even when you are procuring it; you think you are but doing good to yourselves, by gratifying the desires of your flesh. But alas, it is but as a draught or cold water in a burning fever, or as the scratching of an itching wild fire, which increaseth the disease and pain. If indeed you would have pleasure, profit, or honour, seek them where they are to be found, and do not hunt after them in the way to hell. 3. What pity is it, that you should do that against yourselves, which none else in earth or hell can do! If all the world were combined against you, or all the devils in hell were combined against you, they could not destroy you without yourselves, nor make you sin but by your own consent. And will you do that against yourselves which no one else can do; you have hateful thoughts of the devil, because he is your enemy, and endeavoureth your destruction. And will you be worse than devils to yourselves? Why, it is thus with you, if you had hearts to understand it: When you run into ⟨p. 124⟩sin, and run from godliness, and refuse to turn at the call of God, you do more against your own souls than men or devils could do besides, and if you should set yourselves, and bend your wits to do yourselves the greatest mischief, you could not devise to do a greater. 4. You are false to the trust that God hath reposed in you. He hath much entrusted you with your own salvation, and will you betray your trust? He hath set you with all diligence to keep your hearts, and is this the keeping of them?