Send him to my fathers house.] Not to my father, but to my fathers house. It may be there's ungodly children, there's ungodly servants, wallowing in their ungodliness, send him therefore to my fathers house. It is like, they are still the s•me that I left them; I left them wicked, and they are wicked still, I left them slighters of •he Gospel, Saints, and ways of God, and they do it still; send him to my fathers house, it is like there is but a little between them and the place where I am; send him to day, before to morrow, lest they come into the same place of torment. I pray thee that thou wouldst send him.] I beg it on my bended knee, as it were, with crying and with tears, in the Agony of my soul. It may be they will not consider, if thou do not send him; I left them sottish enough hardened as well as I, they have the same devil to tempt them, the same lusts and world to overcome them, I pray thee therefore that thou wouldest send him to my fathers house; make no delay lest they lose their souls, lest they ⟨p. 107⟩come hither, if they do, they are like never to return again. Oh! little do they think how easily they may lose their souls, they are apt to think their condition to be as good as the best, as I once through ignorance did; But send him, send him without delay, lest they come into this place of torment. O that thou wouldest give him commission, do thou send him thy self; it is true, the time was when I, together with them, slighted those that were sent of God, and owned those that were sent of men, ye• though we could not deny but he sp•ke the word of God, and was sent of him as our consciences told us; yet we preferred the calls of men, before the calls of God: for though they had the one, yet because they had not the other in that Antichristian way which we thought meet, we could not, would not, either hear him our selves, nor yet give consent that others should. But now a call from God is worth all. Do (thou) therefore send him to my fathers house. The time was when we did not like it, except it might be preached in the Synagogue, and Steeple-houses, we thought it a low thing to preach and pray together ⟨p. 108⟩in houses: we were too high spirited, too superstitious, the Gospel would not down with us unless we had it in such a place, by such a man; no, nor then neither effectually: But now, Oh! that I was to live in the world again;
Send him to my fathers house.] Not to my father, but to my fathers house. It may be there's ungodly children, there's ungodly servants, wallowing in their ungodliness, send him therefore to my fath•rs house. It is like, they are still the s•me that I left them; I left them wicked, and they are wicked still, I left them slighters of •he Gospel, Saints, and wayes of God, and they do it still; send him to my fathers house, it is like there is but a little between them and the place where I am; send him to day, before to morrow, lest they come into the same place of torment. I pray thee that thou wouldst send him.] I beg it on my bended knee, as it were, with crying and with tears, in the Agony of my soul. It may be they will not consider, if thou do not send him; I left them sottish enough hardned as well as I, they have the same devil to tempt them, the same lusts and world to overcome them, I pray thee therefore that thou wouldest send him to my fathers house; make no delay lest they lose their souls, lest they ⟨p. 107⟩come hither, if they do, they are like never to return again. Oh! little do they think how easily they may lose their souls, they are apt to think their condition to be as good as the best, as I once through ignorance did; But send him, send him without delay, lest they come into this place of torment. O that thou wouldest give him commission, do thou send him thy self; it is true, the time was when I, together with them, slighted those that were sent of God, and owned those that were sent of men, ye• though we could not deny but he sp•ke the word of God, and was sent of him as our consciences told us; yet we preferred the calls of men, b•fore the calls of God: for though they had the one, yet because they had not the other in that Antichristian way which we thought meet, we could not, would not, either hear him our selves, nor yet give consent that others should. But now a call from God is worth all. Do (thou) therefore send him to my fathers house. The time was when we did not like it, except it might be preached in the Synagogue, and Steeple-houses, we thought it a low thing to preach and pray together ⟨p. 108⟩in houses: we were too high spirited, too superstitious, the Gospel would not down with us unless we had it in such a place, by such a man; no, nor then neither effectually: But now, Oh! that I was to live in the world again;
