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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.
5. That thou mayst be cured of thy Soul distemper, and of those sinful Maladies that are upon thy Soul; Is it not for this, I say for this, that God waits upon thee.
IV. Tell me, who shall have the worst of it, or who shall be the Sufferer it thou still delayest & dost not make haste to […], Believe and be Holy? Or who will be the better it that thou make haste to be Holy and Repent? Whose will ⟨p. 85⟩the Profit be, and the Advantage be? If thou dost not, Will not the harm be thy own, and will not the wrong be thy own? Sinner, dost thou think that, God thus waits upon thee, because he cannot be happy without thee? Flatter not thy self with this; for this God was happy before thou wast, and if thou art Damned, this God will be infinitely happy and blessed without thee, Job 22 v. 2, 3. Can a Man be profitable to God, as he that is Wise, is profitable to himself: Is it any Pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art Blessed, or is it any gain that thou makest thy self happy? Job 35 6, 7, 8. If thou sinnest, What dost thou against him? Or if thy transgressions be Multiplied, What dost thou to him! Or if thou art Righteous, What dost thou give unto him? Thy Unrighteousness may prejudice a Man as thou art, & thy Righteousness may profit him. It is a matter of Admiration, that the Blessed God should so long wait upon Sinners, or that the foolish Sinner should so long delay to come to God.
IV. Tell me, who shall have the worst of it, or who shall be the Sufferer it thou still delayest & dost not make haste to 〈…〉, Believe and be Holy? Or who will be the better it that thou make haste to be Holy and Repent? Whose will ⟨p. 85⟩the Profit be, and the Advantage be? If thou dost not, Will not the harm be thy own, and will not the wrong be thy own? Sinner, dost thou think that, God thus waits upon thee, because he cannot be happy without thee? Flatter not thy self with this; for this God was happy before thou wast, and if thou art Damned, this God will be infinitely happy and blessed without thee,