TO A'SOUND CONVERSION. 43,5 vation with hire, if you are but truly and heartily willing. You have God himself condescending to be- seech you to accept them : and ambassadors entreat- ing you in his name and stead. You have ordinances fitted to your necessities, both reading and preaching, and sacraments and, prayer. You have store of plain and powerful books: you have the godly about you, most desirous to assist you, that would be glad to see or hear of your conversion : you have the sight of the wicked, that are wallowing in their own dung, and the dirt. Of the world, to make you hate such beastly ways, You have reason and conscience with- in you, to consider of . these matters, and set them borne and apply them to yourselves; you have time and strength to do all this, if you will not abuse it, and provoke God to take it from you for your negli- gence. You have mercies of many sorts, outward and inward, to win upon you and encourage you in the work; and sometimes afflictions to remember you, and awaken you, and spur you on. The devil and ,all your enemies are so far disabled, they cannot de- stroy you against your wills, nor keep you from Christ, but by your own consents. The angels of heaven are ready to help you, and would even rejoice at your conversion. This is your case, and these are your helps and encouragements; you are not shut up under desperation. God never told you it is in vain to think of conversion ; it is too late. If any have ,told you so, it was the devil, and not God : and one would think, that such considerations as these should drive the nail to the head, and be effectual to move you to resolve and turn. 7. The last thing that I would set before you to be considered, is, what is like to be the end of it, if after all this you should die unconverted. O sirs, your hearts are not able now to conceive of it, nor the tongue of any mortal man to utter it. But so much of it we can certainly titter, as one would think should make your hearts to tremble. You have seen, it may be, a dying man, in .what pangs and ago-
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