Synopsis
Excerpt from A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live
In compassion to your sinful miserable souls, the Lord, that better knows your case than you can know it, hath made it Our duty to Speak to you in his name, 2 Cor. 5: 19, and to tell you plainly of your sin and misery, and what will be your end, and how sad a change you will shortly see, if yet you go on a little longer. Having'bought you at so dear a rate as the blood Of his Son Jesus Christ, and made you so free and general a promise Of pardon, and grace, and everlasting glory; he commandethius to ten der all-this to you as the gift Of God, and to entreat you to consider the necessity and worth Of what he Ofi'ers. He sees and pities you, while you are drowned inworldly cares and pleasures, eagerly following childish toys, and wasting that short and precious time for a thing Of~naught, in which you should make ready for an everlasting life; and therefore he hath commanded us to call after you and tell you how you lose your labor and are about to lose yourxsouls, and tell' you what greater and better things you might certainly have if you would hearken to his call. Isa. We believe and Obey the voice Of God; and come to you on his message, who hath charged us to preach, and be instant with you in season and out of sea son, to lift up our voice like a trumpet, and show you your transgressions and your sins. Isa. 58: 1; 2 Tim.4 1, 2.
Présentation de l'éditeur
And aware of the deccitfulncss of sin in liarclenintr the heart, and in betraying the sinner into a neglect of his spiritual interests, he divests him of every refuge, and strips Jiim of every plea for postpdliing his preparation for eternity. He forcibly exposes the delusion of convenient seasons, and the awful iniat nation and hazard of delay, and knowing the magnitude of the stake at issue, he urgea the sinner to immediate repentance, as if the fearful and almost absolute alternative were Now or Never. And to secure the commencement of such an important work against all the dangers to which procrastination might exjx)se it, lie endeavors to arrest the sinner in his career of guilt and unconcern, and resolutely to fix his determination on turning to God this day without delay. There are two very prevalent delusions on this subject, which wc shoukl like to expose; the one regards the natiij-e, and tlic other the season of repentance; bothof wliich are pregnant with mischief to the mmdg of men. With regard to the first, much mischief has arisen from mistakes respecting the meaning of the term repentance. The word repentance occurs with two dilleren Lmeanings in the New Testament; and it is to be regretted, that two diflerent words could nut have been devised to express these. Tliis is chargeable uix)n the poverty of our language; for it is to be observed, that in the original Greek the distinction in the meanings is pointed out by a distinction in tho words. Tlie employment of one term to denote two different things has tlie effect of confounding and misleading the understanding; and it is much to be wished, thatevery ambiguity of this kind were cleared away from that mo.
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