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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.
Consider, It is thy own Soul, Sinner, that will be lost, if thou wilt not consent to take God for thy God. I would not be guilty of the Damnation of another Man's Soul for all the World. Tell me Sinner, wouldst thou ruin another Man's Soul? Then, why wilt thou ruin Thine own? Whose Soul wilt thou mind, if not thine own? And whose Soul wilt thou take care of, if not thy own?
Consider, It is thy own Soul, Sinner, that will be lost, if thou wilt not consent to take God for thy God. I would not be guilty of the Damnation of another Man's Soul for all the World. Tell me Sinner, wouldst thou ruine another Man's Soul? Then, why wilt thou ruine Thine own? Whose Soul wilt thou mind, if not thine own? And whose Soul wilt thou take care of, if not thy own?
3. If so be, thou dost not take God for thy God, thou wilt lose thy only Soul. Ah poor Sinner, Hast thou but one only Soul that must be Damned or Saved, and wilt not thou take care for thy own Soul▪
Oh take care and see to it, it is thy only Soul. Sirs, God has given to us every one but one only Soul, lose that, and thou losest all; if that be Damned all is Damn'd. Methinks, the thoughts of this should move thee to remember thy Darling, to remember thy only Soul, that when thou hast but one, thou mayst secure the happiness of that one. In the Body God gives us many parts by pairs, Two Eyes, that if we lose one, we may see by the other; Two Ears, Two Hands, two Feet, that if we lose one, we may have the benefit of the other; but God has given Men but one only Soul.
Oh take care and see to it, it is thy only Soul. Sirs, God has given to us every one but one only Soul, lose that, and thou losest all; if that be Damn'd all is Damn'd. Methinks, the thoughts of this should move thee to remember thy Darling, to remember thy only Soul, that when thou hast but one, thou mayst secure the happiness of that one. In the Body God gives us many parts by pairs, Two Eyes, that if we lose one, we may see by the other; Two Ears, Two Hands, two Feet, that if we lose one, we may have the benefit of the other; but God has given Men but one only Soul.