9S A CALL TO resolution ~fyour souls, but have some one thing in the world so dear to you, that you cannot spare it for Christ, ifhe required it, but will rather venture on his displeasure than forsake it-" Turn ye, turn ye, why will ye die? If you never heard it, or observed it before, remember that you were told fi·om the word of God this day, that if you will but turn, you may live; and ifyou will not turn, you shall surely die. What now will you do, sirs? \Vhat is your resolution? Will you turn, or will you not? Halt not any longer between two opinions. If the Lord be God, follow him; if your flesh be God, then serve it still. If heaven be better than earth and fleshly pleasures, come away, then, and seek a better country, and lay up your treasure where rust and moths do not corrupt, and thieves cannot break through and steal; and be awakened at last, with all your might to seek the kingdom that cannot be moved, Heb. xii. 28. and to employ your lives on a higher design, and turn the stream of your cares, and labours, another way than formerly you have done. But if earth be better than heaven, or will do more for you, or last you longer, then keep it, and make your best of it, and follow it still. Sirs, are you resolved what to do? If you be not, I will set a few more moving considerations before you, to see if reason will make you resolve. Consider, first, what preparations mercy hath made for your salvation; and what pity it is, that any man should be damned after all this. The time was, when the flaming sword was in the way, and the curse of God's law would have kept thee back, if thou hadst been never so willing to turn to God. The time waB, when thyBelf, and all the friends that thou ha8t in the world, could never have produced thee the pardon of thy ~ins past, though thou hadst never so much lamented and reformed them. But Christ hath removed this impediment, by •the ransom of his blood The time was, that
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