A call to delaying sinners. Or The danger of delaying in matters concerning our…

IV. You that are old, make haste and do not delay; for if you die Old, and […] too, if you die Old and Graceless too, the Patience of God that his waited upon you […] our Old Age will aggravate your Sin and your Condemnation too; I tell you Sirs, that much of you had better to have died in your Childhood, than to have lived to ⟨p. 76⟩Old Age; you had better have died as soon as you had been born, than to have lived so long, and go to Hell at last; you had better have died when you could not go, by reason of Infancy, than to live till you could not go, by reason of Age, and die our of Christ at last: if thou diest Old and Wicked, old in thy sin, Hell will be the hotter when thou comest there, though it be the longer till thou comest there; will you yet delay? O you that are Ancient, I pray you make haste, and delay no longer.

IV. You that are old, make haste and do not delay; for if you die Old, and 〈…〉 too, if you die Old and Graceless too, the Patience of God that his waited upon you 〈…〉 our Old Age will aggravate your Sin and your Condemnation too; I tell you Sirs, that much of you had better to have died in your Childhood, than to have lived to ⟨p. 76⟩Old Age; you had better have died as soon as you had been born, than to have lived so long, and go to Hell at last; you had better have died when you could not go, by reason of Infancy, than to live till you could not go, by reason of Age, and die our of Christ at last: if thou diest Old and Wicked, old in thy sin, Hell will be the hotter when thou comest there, though it be the longer till thou comest there; will you yet delay? O you that are Ancient, I pray you make haste, and delay no longer.

V. And lastly, I pray you make haste and delay no longer; for, I pray tell me, Can you give an account of your misspent time already? You shall certainly be called to an Account for every Year you have had, for every Month you have […] for every Week, Day and Hour that you have had; Time is going and you must be called to an Account how you have spent your time Can you give an Account to God of Fifty Years spent in […], not know […] God? Can you give an Account […] God of Threescore Years spent in a Natural Estate, in which is nothing of God nor ever did one hearty Duty to God