~06 FIFTY REASONS. loath to leave it? It is the cause of all the miseries of the world, of all the sorrows that ever did befaii you, and the cause of the damnation of them that perish; and do you delay to part with it? 4. Your delaying shows that you love not God, and that you prefer your sin before him, and that you would never part wi-th it if you could have your will. For if you loved God, you would long to be restored to his favour, and to be near him, and employed in his service and his family. Love is quick and diligent, and will not draw -back. And it is a sign also that you are in love with sin: for else, why should you be so loath to leave it? He that would not leave his sin and turn to God, till the next week, or the next month, or year, would never tun!, if he mig?t have his desire. For that which makes you des1rous to stay a day or a week longer, cloth indeed make you loath to turn at all. And therefore it is but hypocrisy to say, that you are willing to turn hereafter, if you are not willing to do it now without delay. 5. Consider, what a case you are in, while you thus delay? Do you think you stand in a safe condition? If you knew where you are, you would sit as upon thorns as long as you are unconverted; you would be as a man that stood up to the knees in the sea, anu saw the tide coming towards him, who certainly would think that there is no standing still in such a place. You have all your sin unpardoned; you are under the curse of the law; the wrath of God is upon you, and the fulness of it hangs over your heads; judgment is coming to pass upon you the dreadful doom; the Lord is at hand; death is at the door, and waits but for the word from the mouth of God, that it may arrest you, and bring you to everlasting misery: and is this a state for a man to continue in? 6. Moreover, Your delaying giveth great aclvantage to the Tempter. If you would presently turn and forsake your sins, and' enter into a faithful cove-
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