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

I come now to the Second Particular.

II. To urge you to make haste, Consider, what haste most do make in the wo•ld to sin against God, to break the Commandments of their God; so hast thou done too, is hath been thy practise. O what haste hast thou made to Sin! How fall do many men Swear! How often are many men Drunk! How fast haste do many make to their wicked […]! How fall does the Whoremonger halt to his Harlot! Shall others ⟨p. 48⟩make haste to Hell, and wilt not thou make haste to Heaven! Shall others make such haste to provoke God, and wilt not thou make haste to Please thy God! Here we cannot make you to be slow: Here we would fain have you to stop, to stay, but you will not do it: If we fetch Arguments from God, from the Wrath of God, from the Justice of God, to stop your course in sin, yet you will go on. If we fetch Arguments from the Promises of God, from the Threatenings of God, both […] for all this, the Sinner will make haste on in his Sin, tho' we tell you, that Sin is the way to Hell, the undoing of your Souls; yet, for all this, you will make haste to Hell; Why Sinner, art thou afraid that thou canst not get to Hell soon enough, or sure enough! Behind, you that make haste to Sin, I Call and Cry his day, Why such haste, Sinner; why poor Sinner, why such haste? Why dost thou hasten so fast to run on in that course that will certainly bring thee to that place of Torment? Stop thy course, stay Sinner, turn back, the place that thou art hastening to, is not a pleasant place; the Torments that thou art hastening ⟨p. 49⟩to, are insufferable torments; turn back again then to God, and instead of making haste to Sin, make haste to God. Believe me, Sinner, believe me, if that thou comest to hell forty years hence, thou wilt find that thou art there soon enough. Why then shouldst thou make such haste? O the blindness of Mens hearts, that make more haste to Damn their Souls, than to Save them; that make more haste to hell, than to heaven; that make more haste to Devils, than to God! That Sinners make haste to sin, you have Proof enough in your, own observation, besides the Scripture! Prov 1. 16. Their feet run to Evil, they, make haste to shed blood,