the Difference! But now, we cry us. To break that Good Law, and Sin
against thy Infinite Majesty can be no little Evil. Thy Word is always
True, and very Particular, that Word of thine which has told us and
warned us, EVIL PURSUETH SINNERS. We have seen it, we have seen it.
We have before our Eyes a dreadful Demonstration of it. Oh! Sanctify
unto us, a Sight that has in it so much of the Terror of the Lord!

"Here is a Number of men that have been very great Sinners, and that
are to Dy before their Time, for their being wicked overmuch.

"... But now we cry mightily to Heaven, we Lift up our Cries to the God
of all Grace, for the Perishing Souls which are just now going to
Expire under the Stroke of Justice, before our Eyes. We Mourn, we
Mourn, that upon some of them at least, we do unto this minute see no
better Symptoms. But, Oh! is there not yet a Room for Sovereign Grace
to be display'd, in their Conversion and Salvation? They Perish if
they do not now Sincerely turn from Sin to God, and give themselves up
to the Lord JESUS CHRIST; They Righteously and Horribly Perish! And
yet, without Influences from above, they can do none of those things
which must be done if they do not perish. Oh! let us beg it of our God
that He would not be so Provoked at their Multiplied and Prodigious
Impieties, and at their obstinate Hardness under means of Good formerly
afforded them, as to withhold those Influences from them. We cry to
thee, O God of all Grace, That thou wouldst not Suffer them to continue
in the Gall of Bitterness and Bond of Iniquity, and in the Possession
of the Devil. Oh! Knock off the Chains of Death which are upon their
Souls; Oh! Snatch the prey out of the Hands of the Terrible.

"... Discover to them, the only Saviour of their Souls. Oh! Dispose
them, Oh! Assist them to give the Consent of their Souls unto His
Wonderful Proposals. Let them dy Renouncing all Dependence on any
Righteousness of their own. Alas, what can they have of their own to
Depend upon! As a Token and Effect of their having Accepted the
Righteousness of God, Let them heartily Repent of all their Sins
against thee, and Abhor and cast up every Morsel of their Iniquity.
Oh! Let them not go out of the World raging and raving against the
Justice of God and Man. And whatever part of the Satanick Image is yet
remaining on their Souls, Oh! Efface it! Let them now dy in such a
State and such a Frame as may render them fit to ap