·, e pofing toa1nend ? What if God fuould have taken youoff this while?· . . Well, put me not off with a dilatory anfwe.r: Tell me not of hereafter, I muft haveyour prefent confent: If you be -not now ·refolved, while the Lord is treatingwith you, andwooingof you, much · lefs are you like to behereafter, when thefe impref– fions are wom out, and you are -hardned through the deceitfulnefs of fin. Will you give me your .hands? Will you fet -open the doors, and give the Lord Jefus the fu.ll and prefent poffeffion ? Will you .put your na1nes tnto hts covenant ~ W~ll you fub– fcribe? What doyou refdlve upon? Ifyou are fiill upon your delays, 1ny labour is loft:, and all is like to cortle to nothing. Fain I would, that you thould nowput inyour adventures. Come, caft in your lot, r,nakeyour choice: Now utbe. accepted time, now u tbe day of thy falvation: To day if you will hear his voice. Why fhould not this be the day from whence thou fhouldft .be able to date thine :happioefs? Why fhouldft thou venture a day longer in this danger– ous and dreadful condition? What if God iboula this night require thy foul ? · Oh rbat thou migbttfi lr.nqw, in thu thy day, tbe things that belong unto thy_ peace, befo~e t,?ey be ~i4 from tbine eyes, Luk. I 9· 42. Th~s is thy day; and tt ts but a day, 'fob; 9.-+ _Others nave had their day, .and have received their doom;. and now art thou brought upon the.ftage of this world, here to act thy pa'rt for a whole eternity. Remember thou art now upon thy good behJ.viour for everlafting ; if thou make not a wife choice now thou art Hndone for ever. Look what. thy p;efent choice is, _fuch muft .thine eternal con– dition be L.. ~.... I o .:p.. and I 6. 2;.. Prov. I. 17 ' ~ . ' I f - - ::.8 · 29. ~ -· . ' And is it true.; indeed ? Is life -and.death at thy choice ? Yea, "tis as true as trud"A is, Peut. 3o. I,. ~ -~ - \Vhy
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