A call to delaying sinners. Or The danger of delaying in matters concerning our…

First of all, whilst thou delayest to […] the Commandments of God. God ⟨p. 38⟩himself is thy Enemy. There is Enmity betwixt God and thy Soul. Know then, whilst thou art trifling, God is angry with thee. The Eternal God is provoked by thy Rebellion against his Law. And is this a State to be delayed in! If a Great Man was thy Enemy, what haste wouldst thou make to be reconciled to him? If a Man upon whom is thy dependence and livelihood, should become thy enemy, O how wouldst thou find to get his favour again! Would not the thoughts of his displeasure awaken thee out of thy sleep! Psal. 7. 11 God is angry with the Wicked every day. Mark, God is daily Angry with thee, whilst a Wicked man; Whilst thou breakest Gods Commandments. And is this a condition to be continued in, when God is daily angry with thee? God is angry with the Wicked every day in the week, every day in the year. Verse 12. If he turn not, he will whet his sword, he hath b•nt his bow, and made is ready: He […] also prepared for him the instruments of Death Behold, the angry God hath taken his Bow in his hand, yea, he hath strung, and bent his Boy and he has taken his Arrow out of the Quiver, and put it to the String, and ⟨p. 39⟩drawn to the top; and Sinner, if […] be the Mark that God aims at, if thou art the Butt, he will shoot his […] in fury, that so it shall strike to the very heart, and who shall heal that wound! Tell me now, is this a State […] be continued in? O it is, because that […] dost not know what God's Anger is! Couldst thou speak with Devils, if they would be plain with thee, they could tell thee what God's Anger is. If thou couldst speak with Damned Soul they could tell thee, what God. Anger is O did you know and consider, what God's anger is you would say, O this is not a State for me to abide in a da• longer.

First of all, whilst thou delayest to 〈…〉 the Commandments of God. God ⟨p. 38⟩himself is thy Enemy. There is Enmity betwixt God and thy Soul. Know then, whilst thou art trifling, God is angry with thee. The Eternal God is provoked by thy Rebellion against his Law. And is this a State to be delayed in! If a Great Man was thy Enemy, what haste wouldst thou make to be reconciled to him? If a Man upon whom is thy dependance and livelihood, should become thy enemy, O how wouldst thou find to get his favour again! Would not the thoughts of his displeasure awaken thee out of thy sleep!