DireElion.r for Converfion. fiance and bleffing, that they may fucceed. And as I have fought the Lord, and confulted his oracle~, what advice to give tl~ ee, fJ muft thou entertain it v;ith that awe) reverence) and purp0fe ofobedience, that the word of the living God doth requir_e. Now the.:1 attend. Set i hine heart unto aU that I fball teftifie unto tbee in tbis da;' ; {a1' it i? not a 'Uain thing, it is your life, Deut. 3 t. 46. 'fhis is the endof all that , hath been fpoken hitherto, tobring you to fet up– on turning, and making ufe of God's n1eans for your converfion. I would not trouble you, ncr torment you before the time, with the forethoughts ofyour eternal mi(ery; but inorder toyour 1raking your efcape. Were you fhut up under your pre– fent tnifery, \:Without ren1ecy, it we1 ebut n1ercy (as one fpeaks) to let you alone, that you n1ight take in that little poor ccmfcrt t} at you are capab:e of here in this world: But you may yet be happy, if you do not wilfully refufe the means of ycur reco– ,~ ery. Ee~old, I hold opea the d oc~r unto you; ariie, take your fht.ht : I fee the way of life before you ; walk 1n it, and you fhalll ive a:~· d not die, D~ ut. 3o• . · 19. 'fer. 9 r 6. It pi6e .; rne to think you i11oulJ be your own rnurderers, at•d tLro•.v }our re:ves head-. long, when God and mencryout toyou~ as Peter, in another cafe, to his .Ma {1 er, Sp.1re t!-J' {tlj: Anoble Virgin, that attended d:e Coeirt of Spain, was·wic– kedly ravi1}ed by theKing; andhereupon exciting tte , Du~e, her Father, to revenge, he cated in the Jlv!oor s· to his help ; who., when they had executed his defign, tnil'e ra~ly wailed and fpoiled the coun– try ; which this Virgin laying fo exceedingly to heart , fhut her felf up in a tower belonging to her fa ther's hcufe , acd defired l:er fatker and n1c– ther n1ight be called forth ; and bewailing to them _her own wretchednefs, that fhe fhould have occa– _Lloned fo much miiery anddefolation toher coun-. try,
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