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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.
III. Then to you that are of a strong and a healthful Constitution, do you make haste and not delay to do what God commands you, though you are ⟨p. 78⟩strong and healthful, yet make haste & do not delay; you have need of this Advice, because being strong, and in perfect health, you are apt to put away the day of Death from you, and Repentance too, and Christ too; and the making of your Peace with God, be cause you are not full of Pain, and God does not often cast you upon Beds of Sickness, therefore you think there is no need for you to make haste.
First of all, As strong and as stout as thou thinkest thou art, many have been cut off in a Weeks time, and less; therefore do thou make haste; as strong as thou art; when Death comes it will make thee cry out, O I am Sick, I am Sick; I am Pained, I am Pained! O it will make thee to Tremble: You see often times that Crazy Persons do out live those that are of a Healthful Constitution; therefore do not venture your Soul Eternal State upon it because you are strong.
II. Tell me, Who is it that giveth thee thy strength? Is it God, or Satan? If […] God that gave thee thy strength; What a disingenuous sinner art thou to God, that because God does not fill thy ⟨p. 79⟩Body with pain, therefore thou wilt fill thy Body with Sin? What does God give thee Health for, and give thee Strength for? Does God make thee strong, that thou mayest be strong to sin, and spend thy days in sinning against him.
II. Tell me, Who is it that giveth thee thy strength? Is it God, or Satan? If God that gave thee thy strength; What a disingenious sinner art thou to God, that because God does not fill thy