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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.
Thirdly, If you will but make haste to keep Gods Commandments, and Believe when he Commands, and close with Christ when he Commands, God will make haste, and hear thy Prayer? when thou pourest out thy Prayer to God, O Lord make haste, & do not tarry; then God will make haste, & hear thy Prayer. Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his Commandments, by doing those things that are pleasing in his sight, Prov. 1. 24 28. Because I have called, and ye have refused. Remember me, Sirs, that if you […] dying, and should call to God for Mercy upon a Death Bad, if you should lie ⟨p. 110⟩a dying, when your Soul is departing, should call to God to save it, yet he would not hear your Prayer: If you neglect to keep the Commandments of God, and for God to neglect to hear the Prayers of a dying Man, What a dreadful case is this?
Thirdly, If you will but make haste to keep Gods Commandments, and Believe when he Commands, and close with Christ when he Commands, God will make haste, and hear thy Prayer? when thou pourest out thy Prayer to God, O Lord make haste, & do not tarry; then God will make haste, & hear thy Prayer. Whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his Commandments, by doing those things that are pleasing in his sight, Prov. 1. 24 28. Because I have called, and ye have refused. Remember me, Sirs, that if you 〈…〉 dying, and should call to God for Mercy upon a Death Bad, if you should lie ⟨p. 110⟩a dying, when your Soul is departing, should call to God to save it, yet he would not hear your Prayer: If you neglect to keep the Commandments of God, and for God to neglect to hear the Prayers of a dying Man, What a dreadful case is this?
Fourthly, If you make haste to keep the Commandments of God, he will make haste actually to keep thee when in Trouble and Temptation. Sirs, if You would make haste to keep the Commandments of God, God would make haste, and would not stay beyond that Hour that Deliverance should be for thy good.