TO A SOUND CONVERSION. 393 drunk no more; but avoid the place and occasion of it. Cast away your lusts and sinful pleasures with de- testation. Curse and swear and rail no more : and if you have wronged any, restore as Zaccheus did. If you will commit again your old sins, what blessing can you expect on the means for conversion? VI. Presently, if possible, change your company. Not by forsaking your necessary relations, but your unnecessary sinful companions; and join yourselves with those that fear the Lord. VII. Deliver up yourselves to the Lord Jesus as the Physician of your souls, that he may pardon you by his blood, and sanctify you by his Spirit ; by his word and ministers, the instruments of his Spirit. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life; there is no com- ing to the Father but by him.(o) Nor is there any other name under heaven by which you can be saved. (p) Study therefore his person and nature, and what he has done, and suffered for you, and what he is to you ; and what he will be ; and how he is fitted to the full supply of all your necessities. VIII. If you mean indeed to turn and live, do it without delay. If you be not willing to turn to-day, you are not willing to do it at all. Remember, you are all this while in your blood ; under the guilt of many thousand sins, and under God's wrath, and you stand at the very brink of hell; there is but a step between you and death. And this is not a case for a man . to be quiet in. Up therefore presently, and fly for your lives ; as you would be gone out of your house, if it were all on fire over your head. O, if you did but know what danger you live in, and what daily un- speakable loss you do sustain, and what a safer and sweeter life you might live, you would. not stand tri- fling, but presently turn. Multitudes miscarry who wilfully delay, when they are convinced that it must be done. Your lives are short and uncertain ; and what a case are you in, if you die before you tho- roughly turn ? You have staid too long already, and, (o) John xiv. 6. (p) Acts iv. 12. 12 3 D
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