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

III. To press you to make haste Consider, what haste most in the world do make to be Rich upon Earth; as i• God sent Men upon Earth to mind nothing so much as the Riches of this World. Do you not see men make haste to get the World, as if they could not be happy without it? As if they were ⟨p. 50⟩undone if they were not Rich! Why do these Men make haste for Riches, and wilt not thou make haste sot Grace? Tell me, is not Grace better than Riches, and God, better than Gold? And are not the joys and happiness of the unseen World, a great deal better than the outward enjoyments of this present World. Take Solomon's Counsel, Prov. 3. 14, 15. Wisdom (meaning Christ) is better than Rubies, and all that the heart can wish or desire, are not to be compared to him, Phil 3. 7. 1. There Paul counted all things but dross, and no better than dung, in comparison of Jesus Christ. Ah Sinner, when Death shall come, and thou lye on a Bed of Sickness, if thy Conscience be then awakened, or if not, then at the furthest, when thou shalt lye in Flames, thou shalt cry out of thy folly, and say, O wretched Sinner that I was, that made such haste to get the World, but no more haste to get the Favour of my God, that made such haste to get Silver and Gold, but, made no• more hast to get the Favour of God, and an Interest in Christ.

III. To press you to make haste Consider, what haste most in the world do make to be Rich upon Earth; as i• God sent Men upon Earth to mind nothing so much as the Riches of this World. Do you not see men make haste to get the World, as if they could not be happy without it? As if they were ⟨p. 50⟩undone if they were not Rich! Why do these Men make haste for Riches, and wilt not thou make haste sot Grace? Tell me, is not Grace better than Riches, and God, better than Gold? And are not the joys and happiness of the unseen World, a great deal better than the outward enjoyments of this present World. Take Solomon's Counsel, Prov. 3. 14, 15