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A call to delaying sinners. Or The danger of delaying in matters concerning our…
A call to delaying sinners. Or The danger of delaying in matters concerning our souls. Being the substance of several sermons from Psal. 119. v. 60. / By Thomas Doolittle, Minister of the Gospel ...
printed by Bartholemew Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1700
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
V. Is not Youth, & Young in Years, the usual time for God to Convert Sinners to his Son? especially, those whom he planteth under the Gospel in the time of their Youth. O you that are set under preaching, if you are not converted whilst you are young, it is a thousand to one, if ever you are Converted Pray Sirs, consider, Is it usual for God to Convert Old Sinners? I know, God sometimes may call at the Eleventh Hour, but it is but here and there one, now and then one ▪ & commonly they are such as did not sit under the means of ⟨p. 66⟩Grace when they were Young; if you delay whilst Young, you may let slip the very season of Conversion, then your Souls cannot be brought over to God by all the Preaching in the World. Do we not amongst our selves observe, that for one Old Person, one Old Sinner, that is made sensible of sin, and of his lost estate, though never so vile, that does desire the Prayers of a Congregation for them, have we not Twenty, yea Forty that are younger, that desire your Praises for them?
V. Is not Youth, & Young in Years, the usual time for God to Convert Sinners to his Son? especially, those whom he plantech under the Gospel in the time of their Youth. O you that are set under preaching, if you are not converted whilst you are young, it is a thousand to one, if ever you are Converted Pray Sirs, consider, Is it usual for God to Convert Old Sinners? I know, God sometimes may call at the Eleventh Hour, but it is but here and there one, now and then one ▪ & commonly they are such as did not sit under the means of ⟨p. 66⟩Grace when they were Young; if you delay whilst Young, you may let slip the very season of Conversion, then your Souls cannot be brought over to God by all the Preaching in the World. Do we not amongst our selves observe, that for one Old Person, one Old Sinner, that is made sensible of sin, and of his lost estate, though never so vile, that does desire the Prayers of a Congregation for them, have we not Twenty, yea Forty that are younger, that desire your Praises for them?