Counsel 2.

Counsel 2.

Seek a Pardon, and seek it PRESENTLY. Be able to say, concerning your Seeking a Pardon from, as the Psalmist said about his Keeping the Precept of the Eternal God; I made Hast, and did not Delay to do it.

To awaken your Hast here-about.

Consider the Incredible Dangers of all Delays. Your main Business is to become well provided of a pardon for your Sins. Let me now say unto you, as in 2 Cor. 6. •2. Behold, Now is the Accepted Time, Behold Now is the Day of Salvation! If you slip this Now, you may never have another; you may miss of Acceptance and Salvation for ever more. O do not say, as the Unhappy Faelix did, I'll concern my self about these matters at a more convenient season; for a More convenient Season will never come. The Great God says, To Day! and ⟨p. 41⟩our To morrow, cannot be a more convenient season than, that which the all wise God hath pointed us unto. You have Now about you, a thousand conveniences for the getting of a Pardon, which no Season hereafter will have blowing in the S•ils thereof. Nay tis possible, you may never have any other season at all. We are told, in Eccl. 9.12. Man knoweth not his time. We are bid in Prov. 27.1. Boast not thy self of Tomorrow. We do not know that the Time which is future, will ever come to be present with us, and he was but a well advised man, who could say, I have not had a To morrow, for these many years. It was a prudent Admonition given by a Rai to a Scholar, among the Jews, Child Be sure to Repent at least a day before you Dy. That person is worse than Mad who does not make sure of this. But you cannot make sure of it, if you do not Repent within the next three of four hours that are now ore you. If any man propound