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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.
1. Thou hast a great Work to do, and therefore should not lose one Minute of time for the doing of it. Thou hast many ⟨p. 17⟩strong Lust to overcome: Many a Temptation to resist, Many Duties to perform: Thou hast the knowledge of God and Christ to get, and of thy own heart, th• knowledge of thy State now, and of th[…] state hereafter: Many a Prayer to make Many an hour to be spent in searching of thy Heart, and trying of thy State. And is not all the time that thou half before thee if thou begin to day, little enough to do this great Work, that God lays upon thee to do?
1. Thou hast a great Work to do, and therefore should not lose one Minute of time for the doing of it. Thou hast many ⟨p. 17⟩strong Lust to overcome: Many a Temptation to resist, Many Duties to perform: Thou hast the knowledge of God and Christ to get, and of thy own heart, th• knowledge of thy State now, and of th〈…〉 state hereafter: Many a Prayer to make Many an hour to be spent in searching of thy Heart, and trying of thy State. And is not all the time that thou half before thee if thou begin to day, little enough to do this great Work, that God lays upon thee to do?
2. The Work enjoined by God it is difficult Work, and hard Work too. The more difficult your Work is, if you be wise, the more time you will take for the doing of it. Is not to set thy heart and thy love upon God, to love him above all, and to please him before all? is not think you, this hard and difficult Work, when the heart of a sinner naturally loves any thing better than God? To have thy will to bow to Christ, and submit to Christ, and accept of Christ, when it is rebellious and stubborn? Is not this hard Work, to change thy heart to break thy hard and stony heart? To reform thy Life, is not this hard and difficult Work? And all commanded by