A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

3. When you fi•d it in the Word of God that so it is, and so it will be, do you think yourselves fit to contradict this Word? Will you call your Maker to the bar, and examine his word upon the ⟨p. 13⟩accusation of falsehood? Will you sit upon him, and judge him by the law of your conceits? Are you wiser, and better, and righteouser than he? Must the God of Heaven come to school to you to learn wisdom? Must infinite wisdom learn of folly, and infinite Goodness be corrected by a swinish sinner, that cannot keep himself an hour clean? Must the Almighty stand at the bar of a worm? Oh horrid arrogancy of senseless dust! shall ever mole, or clod, or dunghill, accuse the sun of darkness, and undertake to illuminate the world? Where were you when the Almighty made the laws, that he did not call you to his counsel; surely he made them before you were born, without desiring your advice, and you came into the world too late for to reverse them; if you could have done so great a work, you should have slept out of your nothingness and have contradicted Christ when he was on earth, or Moses before him, or have save Adam and his sinful progeny from the threatened death, that so there might have been no need of Christ! And what if God withdraw his patience and sustentation, and let you drop into hell while you are quarrelling with his word, will you then believe that there is an hell.

3. When you fi•d it in the Word of God that so it is, and so it will be, do you think yourselves fit to contradict this Word? Will you call your Maker to the bar, and examine his word upon the ⟨p. 13⟩accusation of falsehood? Will you sit upon him, and judge him by the law of your conceits? Are you wiser, and better, and righteouser than he? Must the God of Heaven come to school to you to learn wisdom? Must infinite wisdom learn of folly, and infinite Goodness be corrected by a swinish sinner, that cannot keep himself an hour clean? Must the Almighty stand at the bar of a worm? Oh horrid arrogancy of senseless dust! shall ever mole, or clod, or dunghill, accuse the sun of darkness, and undertake to illuminate the world? Where were you when the Almighty made the laws, that he did not call you to his counsel; surely he made them before you were born, without desiring your advice, and you came into the world too late for to reverse them; if you could have done so great a work, you should have slept out of your nothingness and have contradicted Christ when he was on earth, or Moses before him, or have save Adam and his sinful progeny from the threatened death, that so there might have been no need of Christ! And what if God withdraw his patience and substentation, and let you drop into hell while you are quarrelling with his word, will you then believe that there is an hell.