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

[…] Thou dost presume that thou shall live danger yet; thou do presume, that thou hast more time to spend in this World; thou dost suppose that thou mayst have another Year yet, another Month […] another Weeks still; Tell me it this be not in thy Heart? Thou art worse than a mad man indeed, that wilt not make haste & come to Christ? but this is a bold presumption; thou talkest of another Year, when thou mayst not have another Hour.

〈…〉 Thou dost presume that thou shall live danger yet; thou do presume, that thou hast more time to spene in this World; thou dost suppose that thou mayst have another Year yet, another Month 〈…〉 another Weeks still; Tell me it this be not in thy Heart? Thou art worse than a mad man indeed, that wilt not make haste & come to Christ? but this is a bold presumption; thou talkest of another Year, when thou mayst not have another Hour.

2 Thou dost presume, that thou canst Repent when thou wilt, and turn to God when thou wilt; thou dost presume that thy own will is of thy own strength; but Sinner, either thou canst Repent when thou wilt, or thou canst not, if thou canst and dost not, behold thou art inexcusable; but if thou canst not Repent now, dost thou think thou canst better Repent hereafter, when thou hast hardened thy Heart yet more in Sin?

3 In thy Delaying, thou dost presume, that the Spirit of God will help thee hereafter, as well as now, for if this were not in thy hopes, if thou didst not suppose this, if thou wert not bereaved of thy Understanding, Wouldst not thou Repent now, while the Spirit of God moves upon thy heart? How dost thou know, but hereafter the Spirit of God may let thee alone, and give thee up to the hardness of thy own Heart? God may say to thee, as to Ephraim,