Directions for Converfion.. try, for the fatisfying of her revenge, !be told them, the was refolved to be avenged upon her felf. Her father and mother be[ ought her to pity her felf and thetn, but nothing could prevail, but £he took her leave of then1, and threw her felf off the battle– ments and fo perifhed before their faces. Juft thus is the wilful defiruetionofungodlymen. The God that made thembefeecheth them, andcryeth out to then1, as Paul to the diftrafled Jaylor, when about to murder himfelf, Do thy [elf no harm. The Miniilers of Chrift forewarn them, and follow the1n, and fain would have them back; but, alas l noexpoftulations not obteltations '\Vill prevail, but men will hurl then1felves into perdition , while pity it fe:f lookethon. \Vhat H1all I fay? \Vould it not grieve a p,erfon ()f any hun1anity, if in the time of a reigningplague he f11cmld have areceipt(as one faidwell)that would infallibly cure all the country, and recover the mo.fl: ·. hopelefS patients, andyet his friends and neighbours tbould die by the hundreds about him, becaufe they l-Vould not ,ufe it? Menand brethren, though you · tarry the certain fymptoms of death in yeur faces, yet I have a receipt that will cure you all, that will cure infallibly: Follow but the((; fe\;v direCtions, and if you donot then win h-:~ve.n, I will be con.. tent to lofe it. · · Hear then, 0 finner ! and as ever thou wouldR: be converted andfave~i,embrace this following counfel. Direct. I. Set it down with tby {elf, M an undoubted truth, tbat it is impoffible for thee ev~r to get to heav~n in this thy u'?lconverted /fate. Can anyother but ~hnft fave thee? and he tells thee, he will never do It, ex– cept thou be regenerated, and converted, Mat~ •2. 3· :fofJ. 3• 3. Doth he not keep the- keys of heaven ? And canft thou get in ·without his leave? As thou mufi:, ifever thou come! thither in thynatural.c~n- . d1t1on,
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