If A Man That Is Desperately Sick

If Life Be Long, I Will Be Glad, Tthat I May Long Obey; If Short, Yet Why Should I Be Sad, To Soar To Endless Day?

You Little Know What You Have Done, When You Have First Broke The Bounds Of Modesty; You Have Set Open The Door Of Your Fancy To The Devil, So That He Can, Almost At His Pleasure Ever After, Represent The Same Sinful Pleasure To You Anew; He Hath Now Access To Your Fancy To Stir Up Lustful Thoughts And Desires, So That When You Should Think Of Your Calling, Of Your God, Or Of Your Soul, Your Thoughts Will Be Worse Than Swinish, Upon The Filth That Is Not Fit To Be Named. If The Devil Here Get In A Foot, He Will Not Easily Be Got Out.

Lay Siege To Your Sins, And Starve Them Out By Keeping Away The Food And Fuel Which Is Their Maintenance And Life.

Speak To Your People As To Men That Must Be Awakened, Either Here Or In Hell.

When Christ Comes With Regenerating Grace, He Finds No Man Sitting Still, But All Posting To Eternal Ruin, And Making Haste Toward Hell; Till, By Conviction, He First Brings Them To A Stand, And Then, By Conversion, Turn First Their Hearts, And Then Their Lives, Sincerely To Himself.