A CALL TO SINNERS, SUCH As are under Sentence OF DEATH, AND SUCH As are under any Prospect of it: FROM The Long-suffering and Gracious, but most Righteous GOD.  
By his Servant Daniel Burgess, at the Pious Request of an Excellent Person.  ●f God peradventure will give them Repentance, 2 Tim. 2.25. 
LONDON, Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns, at the lower end of Cheapside, and R●bert Gibbs at the Golden Ball in Chancery-Lane. 1689.   

To my dear Children.  
My Hopes and my Fears,  
THE first Adam's sin came into You through my Loins. O may the second Adam's grace come into you, through my means. My God and the God of my Father's grant it! To Him have I Dedicated you: And for Him would I Educate you.  
I am Called unto much work for Others: Its little that I can do distinctly for You. Be it your Care to make Yours, what is done for many Others. Thus publicly I command you to read this Call, as wrote singly for yourselves. 'Tis possible some other Parents may from so mean an example, Charge their Children. And this my Paper may speak unto you, when I am gone from you.  
You know they are many, who think my Days on Earth will be few. And that You must Die Young, or Live Orphans. However that be ordered by God, hasten ye to make sure your Peace with Him. Up and be doing, O precious Souls, and dear as mine own!  
The God of my own Mercies, Comforts and Hopes be with you! Amen.   

A Call to SINNERS, UNDER Sentence of DEATH, and under any Prospect of approaching Death.  O Blessed God, that hast called me to lay my Paper to the Grave, and to entreat the Dead to Rise; to Argue with Rocks, and Persuade very Millstones to be Saints! O take the Work into thine own hand; half a word of thine will make every Reader a Sincere Convert and Sound Believer! Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make this Call (like the Trump of the Archangel,) to raise Millions of Dead Souls out of their Graves! Amen, Amen, for Jesus sake, Amen. 
Miserable, O miserable, but not yet Helpless Sinner,  
THE Lusts thou hast served all thy former days, cannot now give thee one pleasant Thought in these thy last days. The World thou hast Idolised, cannot save thee from, or in, thy approaching Death. The Devil whom thou hast Imitated and Obeyed, longs to be sent to fetch thee to Hell. The God whom thou hast not sought unto for thy Peace with Him, is resolved to wait but a very little longer for thy seeking unto Him. Yet so Kind is his holy Nature, so Compassionate is his holy Jesus, so long-suffering is his holy Spirit, that (by my hand). He gives thee once more the Offer of his Pardon, Grace and Glory.  
He commands me to try, if any or all of these ten Cousiderations; will awaken thy Soul.  
C. 1. The very last Week and Day of thy Life is given thee to prepare for Eternity, as well as all thy former ones. I, and the mispending of these, will be a greater sin than the mispending of all thy former Weeks and Days hath been. It will be a kind of sinning over all former sins again, and adding unto the same. Who can say thy Day of Grace is over? And who can doubt but our last sins be still incomparably our worst sins?  
C. 2. The very minute itself, wherein Thou beginnest thy true Conversion, God doth begin thy true Salvation. Thou art under the Sentence of Condemnation not only by the Law, but by the Gospel. When thou dost begin to Convert, read Luk. 15.20. And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.  
C. 3. The very Call that in this Paper God sendeth unto thee, is a probable argument that God hath saving Grace in store for thee. Methinks, God hath said to me: Go preach to the poor condemned Malefactors, for I have some people among them; and Hell shall not have all that die on the Gallows.  
C. 4. The very Book of God which directs me to all I put thee upon, is full of Proofs that thou mayst be saved, however wicked thou hast been, if even now thou dost not Deny or Delay Gods merciful Call sent thee. The Heaven is not so full of Stars, as Old and New Testament of Proofs hereof. In the Old Testament, Manasseh is a famous Instance of saving Grace to Sinners most notorious: The Thief dying on the Cross, is another, recorded in the New Testament. [One of 97 years old, was converted by John Rogers. And Richard Rogers used to say of John, I will never despair of any man for John Rogers' sake: so wicked a wretch John had been.]  
C. 5. The very Nature, Decrees, and Words of God make it certain, that Unbelief dishonours God more than all other Sins, and Faith more honours him than all other Duties. St. Austin says, Judas sinned worse by his unbelieving sorrow for his Sin, than by all his sins that he sorrowed for. And such another Phoenix saith, That right Faith honoureth God more, than an uniform entire Obedience to the whole Law in Innocency could do.  
C. 6. The very Pardon and Salvation of thy perishing Soul, is a Work God has more Delight in, than he has in all the Works of the whole Creation. Seek, Sinner, seek: seek, and fear not that God will deny unto thee, the thing he delighteth to give unto all that do duly seek.  
C. 7. The very Hope that in his Gospel-way God will save thee, and Confidence that through Christ he can do it without any loss of his own glory, is no small Honour unto God; I, and 'tis that without which, thou canst never rightly Believe on Jesus Christ, and therefore never Do any thing pleasing unto God.  
C. 8. The very Soul of thine, which is certainly and extremely corrupted and cursed, is not worse than many of the Souls which are now in Heaven, once were. God's Son hath Redeemed, and his Spirit hath sanctified as bad as Thou art. Why not Thee too?  
C. 9 The very Change of thine that I writ for; change of Covenant, of Spirit, of Nature, of Conversation, of Company; it can no sooner be made, but Heaven will ring with Joy for it. I. and Hell gnash for envy at it. Father, Son, and Spirit, Angels, Saints above, and all Saints below that hear of it, will be right glad.  
C. 10. The very State that thou art now in, is not so bad as that thou shalt presently pass into, is good; if now thou acceptest Christ offered to Thee. No, nor shall the very Eternity of the Damned be so bitter, as he Eternity of thy blessed Soul and Body be sweet. Sinner, sinner, lay this to thy heart: thy State is Hellish; bad as a Creatures sin can-make it. But, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the same moment it shall be Heavenly; even good as a God-Man's Obedience can deserve to have it made. And know thou, tho' all we can say of Hell, is but a flea-bites in comparison of what thou wilt feel it to be if thou come therein; yet for all that, There's more Joy in Heaven than Torment in Hell.  
Go thou then, and do all that is enjoined for Conviction, for Compunction, for Union unto Jesus Christ, and to God by Him. Pray, and beg Prayers. Hear, and Read Directions, and follow them. Lose no time, not a moment. Convinced sufficiently thou art not, till thou art able sincerely to say these twelve particulars.  
P. 1. There is a Law and Covenant of perfect Obedience, which I was under, ever since I was a Child of Adam. As soon as I was a Man, I was bound personally, perfectly, and perpetually to Obey and Love the Father, Son and Spirit. (I, and as soon as my Soul and Body came together, I was a Man in the Language of the Scripture.)  
P. 2. That Law of Perfect Obedience, that Covenant of works is broke by my first Parent; and that Breach is imputed unto me, and the cursed Quality of it is inherent in me even from the womb. It has also been breaking continually by my vile Person, in all my Thoughts, Words and Deeds, throughout all my days.  
P. 3. For that double Breach, I am under God's wrath, the Laws Curse, liable to all miseries, to Death, to Hell. I am bound over, as the Devils to the Judgement of the great day: And as with them so with me, God is angry all the day long.  
P. 4. Yet can I not in the least find fault with the Law, or blame the Lord and Lawgiver. Tho' I am undone, he has done me no wrong. He doth but right; and natural necessary right, for naturally he hateth Sin, as I hate Hell. Nay, and the equity and the honour of his Government require that such Sinners as I am, receive such sentence as I am under.  
P. 5. My offended God is also my absolute Sovereign; and not at all a Debtor unto me, that I can commence no action against him, nor charge him with any Injustice, if he let me perish under his damnatory sentence, and deny me Salvation.  
P. 6. No, nor can I excuse myself from being my own self-destroyer, by laying the blame of my sin upon any Creature. They but Tempt, they Force not. All my formerly used shifts, Cavils and Contradictions, I have done with for very shame. My Mouth is stopped, and I am Dumb before God.  
P. 7. Yet I hear and I believe a doctrine of Grace and Salvation, even for such sinners as I am. A Salvation purposed by God. A Salvation purchased by Jesus Christ. A salvation attested and published by the Holy Ghost. A salvation, for sinners of all ranks and degrees. A salvation through a New Covenant and New Birth.  
P. 8. This Salvation, I perceive, God never meant, nor made any man's, but in the way of Repentance, Faith, New obedience. The way of Child's salvation is extraordinary, I speak of grown Persons.  
P. 9 Myself I find utterly unable, to Repent, to Believe, and to obey the Gospel. I, to will or desire aright any good. Tho I must perish if I do not: Yet without the Holy Spirit of Liberty, Life and Power put into me, I cannot Repent, Believe and Obey.  
P. 10. God, who was not at first bound to Create me, is now as little bound to New-Create me; by putting his Holy Spirit into me, and by working in me, the Habits of Repentance, Faith and Obedience; and by Exciting the same habits unto Act and Exercise. If he doth freely New-Create me, he is Gracious: if not, he is Righteous.  
P. 11. Nevertheless, God in the Gospel Licenseth, yea Invites, and Commands (in general) all sinners to Repent, Believe, and Obey, i. e. to use all the means of these, by God appointed, and of which we are capacitated. And I conclude it my duty and interest to use the said means.  
P. 12. Lastly, I take for granted, that 'tis my Duty and interest, to wait unto my very last gasp what the Lord will say unto me, and do with me. And this will I do if God enable.  
Stop, Sinner, stop here; and over again with these twelve Particulars very seriously! And now let me tell thee, vain is thy Conviction of all, without that Compunction, or being pricked through the Heart, which we place in three things; Fear, Grief, Separation from Sin: Go labour therefore to get able to say as follows:  
P. 1. I fear the Spiritual and Eternal Judgements of God, that heretofore I feared but little, if at all. Hitherto I feared but only Poverty, Reproach, Sickness, etc. now I fear a dark Mind, an hard Heart, and a Wrath to come.  
P. 2. I grieve for all I have been and done against God, and Christ, and the Holy Spirit: I grieve more for this, than I do for aught beside; more than ought beside is worthy to be grieved for.  
P. 3. I separate and turn me from every sin, to the best of my Skill and Power. Tho I cannot say, all Sin in my will is dead; I dare say, all my Will to sin is dead; I and of all the good gifts of God, I should now choose his CHRIST and his H. SPIRIT.  
This indeed is somewhat, sinner. Yet is one thing, (and the greatest,) lacking. For aught that yet appears, 'tis lacking Dost thou turn from every sin to the best of thy skill and power? Thou dost well to do thy all, tho' it be next to nothing, that as yet thou canst do. Is all thy will to sin dead? This is a good hearing: tho' it be to be feared, 'tis a very improper death that it hath died. Trees are said to be dead, when Life is gone out of the root of them: and they are said to be dead, when Winter-weather hath but driven their life unto their root. And hath hindered nothing but their Growing and Fruit-bearing: nor them neither, but until the Spring-season. Now is thy will to sin any otherwise dead, than the Trees in thy Garden be dead in Winter? Or is this Death, thinkest thou, a true or a sufficient? Thou now choosest of all God's gifts both CHRIST and his H. SPIRIT. Welcome news this is. But all is not Gold that glisters: and it should be enquired whether it be a good choice thou makest of these so good gifts. A choice of mere Compulsion, thou dost not thyself believe a good one. Such a choice rebelliously-disposed subjects may make of a King, whom they loath and wish under ground: such a choice ill Women may make of men for their Husbands, while they hate their tempers and their Persons. A choice of inward free Disposition is the only one that truly praiseth an Object chosen; and that can commend the soul that makes the choice. Speak man, of which sort is thy choice? What is thy considerate Judgement, and thy Free Disposition, how standest thou affected toward these divine Persons, and their holy Nature? Their saving Benefits, I question not thy desire of. And say, if thou canst, is it any thing but Compulsion by fear of being damned without them that causeth thy choice. Sinner, I would have thee know: 'Tis from Christ working in thee by his Spirit, that thou turnest from sin so as thou dost: That thy Will to sin is dead, even so much as a Tree in Winter: That thou choosest Christ and his spirit tho' but for their Benefits and but on Compulsion. Without divine Drawing thou hadst never come so far itself. But woe be to thee that ever thou wast born, if thou art not drawn and dost not come farther. If thou dost not come into real and gracious Marriage-union unto the Lord Jesus Christ. O go Labour, Pray, and Wait to be enabled to say the four particulars that follow: as ever thou wouldst get able to say, I am passed from death to Life.  
P. 1. I now see the Necessity of Union to Christ, and unto God by Christ. God and Man were at first United closely, tho' not inseparably. Sin undid us by Disuniting us. By destroying the Relation and Kin we had unto God: and of Children making us Aliens and Strangers. Religion is nothing at all less than Reunion unto God. A return unto our first Kin and Relation unto Him. Such Kin as that of Father and Child: such Relation as that of Friend and Friend. Now hereunto no return can be made, but by Union first made unto Jesus Christ, Joh. 1.12. Such an Union to him, as that which is betwixt Husband and Wife: betwixt Head and Members: betwixt Root and Branches: betwixt Foundation and Stones built on it! These similitudes the Holy Scripture useth: and he that takes them for insignificant cyphers, blasphemeth.  
P. 2. I now see the Nature of this so necessary Union unto Jesus Christ. 'Tis the foresaid Relation and Kin, by mutual Consent and Covenant made. By threefold Consent. God is willing that his Son Christ as Mediator should become so nearly related unto us. Christ's will is always one and the same with his Fathers; and He is declared most willing. We, sinful Fugitives and Aliens, are never willing, till infinite Grace by almighty Power makes us willing. Nor ever are we took into the Relation we speak of, till we are made so. And are brought to an hearty Consent unto the Marriage-Covenant. Which consent, is indeed saving Faith. Consenting thereunto, is believing: and believing on, is marrying unto Christ Jesus, as appears Joh. 1.12, etc. And this great work being done, we are instantly akin unto our blessed Lord. Related as near, as a Wife is unto an Husband. I, and Related unto God as a Wife is unto her Husband's Father. Christ MEDIATOR is our Husband, and God is Our Father by the Law of grace. My Father and your Father, saith that gracious Husband, Joh. 20.17.  
P. 3. I now see what that Covenant of Grace is, whereto our consent given doth make the foresaid Union. It consists, I see, in Promises and Demands. Promises of good things unto us, and Demands of duty from us. The Promised Mercies I comprise in four: (1.) GRACE.. Both Grace Justifying, and Absolving from the guilt of sin: and Grace Sanctifying, or Abolishing by degrees the Power of sin, Heb. 8.10, 12. (2.) BREAD. I mean all the necessary good things, of this Life. Enough of them to bear our charges to Heaven, 1 Tim. 4.8. (3.) GLORY. That is, both Excellency and Eternity of all desirable good in the next World. 2 Tim. 4.8. 1 Pet. 1.4. (4.) CHILD'S BLESSING. An entail of good things for our sakes, [tho' not our merits,] upon our Children, Rom. 11.28. Exod. 20.6. Acts 2.39. The Duty demanded is also considerable in four particulars. (1) REPENTANCE. An Heart-renting for sin, and from it. A First one; necessary unto our acceptation into a Justified state; an After-one continued; necessary unto our sense of Justification, and unto our daily Pardons, Act. 2.38. Luk. 13.3. (2) FAITH. Assent unto the Gospel Revelations, Consent unto the Precepts, Reliance upon the promises, Act. 16.31. Mar. 16.16. (3.) NEW OBEDIENCE. Conformity of the whole man unto the whole Rule of the Gospel in Natural, Civil and Religious actions, 2 Thes. 1.8. 1 Pet. 4.17. (4) PERSEVERANCE. Or strict and precise adherence unto that conformity, in all times, places, companies and conditions unto Life's end, Rev. 2.10. Our Holy Baptism, and the Lord's supper, do both Encourage our belief of God's fulfilling the promises of this Covenant, and Engage us on our parts to fulfil the Demands of it, in the strength of Christ. [And they would, of all Ordinances, be the most helpful, if the Nature, Ends and Uses of them were duly Taught by Ministers and Learned by People.]  
P. 4. I now feel my hearts free and full consent to this said Covenant of grace. Unto the Acceptation of its promised Benefits, for my only Portion and Enjoyment: and unto the Acceptation of its demanded Duties, for my only Business and Employment in this world. Blessed be free grace, I do accept both. And my Soul that was so far from God, is made nigh. The Objections of my mind and oppositions of my will are routed. Grace in Christ has conquered my Enmity against God, as Holy: and my, fear of Him, as my Enemy. His offered Son I have Accepted; his Person, with his Benefits. I have taken Him for my Husband, Teacher, Saviour, Ruler: As the only Mediator to Reconcile God unto me, and to Communicate grace to me from God. Now is Father Son and Spirit my enjoyed Portion, and my served Lord again. I have entered into an Oath and a Curse, and bound myself at my everlasting peril, Him only to serve, Him only to enjoy. With engaged heart, with opened mouth, with a fixed hand and seal I have obliged myself to have no other God but Him; no Mediator, but his Son; no Ruler, but his Spirit; no Rule, but his Word. The Word of his ever Blessed Covenant, well ordered in all things and sure: which is all my salvation and all my desire. Oh Reader, I have heard of a sinner, who twice heard a Voice from Heaven as he thought it, saying, Make haste, make haste; and yet he (a prodigious Adder) died a Sinner. Be it far from thee to be so obstinate.  
Wilt thou tell me?  
Obj. 1. That I mistake thee, and that thou art no such great Sinner, though it be thy lot to have been drawn away by ill Company, and to have miscarried of late.  
Answ. Alas, alas! if so blind and senseless, what hope of thee? However, the Lord who is only able, shall be entreated to make thee Understand, 1. Every sinner is a great one, for no sin is small; the least of sins against God, deserves Death eternal. 2. By Nature thou art a Child of Wrath, and Enemy of God. 3. All thy Life of unregeneracy has been very sinful, a dead and damning Life. 4. Thou art an English despiser of Christ, and that is the worst sort in the World: For according to the degrees of spiritual Light such are the degrees of obstinate Rebellion against it.  
Obj. 2. But thou hast been Punished, and art like to die too: Yea and hast been troubled for thy Sins very much: and thou hopest God has more Mercy, than after all this to damn thee to Hell.  
Answ. Sinner, I pray God give thee thy sight! These things are true. 1. An everlasting Hell itself is not more than our Sins do deserve; God is far from Unmerciful in damning Sinners so incorrigible. 2. The Tears and the Blood of a Creature, are no satisfaction for Sin: thy burning in Hell for the space of a million of years, will not expiate the guilt of one vain Thought.  
Obj. 3. I put my trust in my God and Saviour: and I hope to be saved without the ado you make about Conviction, and Compunction and Union, some may say.  
Answ. Deluded Soul! O that thou wouldst consider! 1. In all the book of God we are taught there's no Salvation, but in these ways of his Sovereign Wisdom and Mercy. 2. By this it's plain, you know not God, nor what it is to Trust in Him: but do only Presume blasphemously that He is such an one as yourself, and is neither Holy nor Just. 3. You will believe in his Promises directly contrary to the condition required in 'em: and you will not believe his Threaten against impenitent unreformed Sinners tho' ratified with his Oath.  
Obj. 4. Why, says another, what profit can you assure me of, if I should, to my utmost, endeavour all that you advise?  
Answ. 1. And what if I could not Assure thee of any Profit? Wouldst thou do nothing upon very Probability? If 'twere but Probable that the King would grant a Petition for thy Life, wouldst refuse any possible labour to get one presented. The whole World acts upon Probabilities. 2. But well; I can Assure thee of benefit no less than Eternal. For suppose the worst, that thy endeavours prevail not unto Saving Conversion; yet will they prevail to a lessening of thy Torments in Hell for ever. Every degree of contempt greatens them; every degree of endeavour lessens them. On the other hand; if unto thy utmost thou endeavour, there's no just reason for the frightful conclusion that 'twill be Uneffectual unto Salvation. And if it be not, thy certain Profit is too great for Angel's Tongues to express. A comprehensive foresight of it, would work wonders in thee. Inquire, if thou know not, what things are these ten? 1. Justification. 2. Adoption. 3. Sanctification of the Holy Spirit. 4. Acceptation of all Duties with God. 5. Title unto all the Promises of the glorious Gospel. 6. Inseparable and honourable Union to God. 7. Peace and Joy in Conscience. 8. Victory over sinful Love of Life and Fear of Death. 9 Glorious Resurrection of thy Body. 10. Boldness in the day of Judgement, and Admission into heavenly Glory. If I were sure I should never get, I would Live and Die in the pursuit of these. Up, Sinner, up, and be Doing, and know this:— If but one man now i'the World were to be Saved, I would Try to be the Man: and if but one were to be Damned, I would Tremble and carefully endeavour to make sure that I should not be Herald O that these six Memorandums were nailed on thy Memory: (they have done others good, why not thee?) M. 1. 'Tis God in Christ, only, that can save thee. 2. He invites thee to Salvation, even yet. 3. Upon gracious terms, He Promises, He will Save thee. 4. He commands thee by all his Authority to accept it on his Terms. 5. He will Rejoice over thee with Singing, if thou dost accept it. 6. And Oh the Love! He will Weep over thee if (after all) thou wilt Destroy thyself unperswadably. Sinner, Sinner, I can tell thee of one that heard a Voice, No Mercy, no Mercy, and yet was persuaded to Endeavour, and did Convert, and did obtain Mercy. Remember it: Despair is full as bad as Presumption; and divine Mercy is not a jot less than Justice.  
Obj. 5. I cannot say I do not Repent and Believe, and that sincerely: but if I do, 'tis with a sadly weak Repentance and Faith: and such as I am ashamed of, and cannot believe the holy Judge of all the Earth will accept.  
Answ. Say it be so: and say that 'tis but the lowest place in Heaven that thou shalt be set in: Is any Seat there Uneasy? O man, know and Joy in it. 'Tis Truth of Grace that is thy Life. The look of the weakest eye unto the brazen Serpent, did heal as truly as the look of the strongest. Upon the very first sincere Acceptation of Father, Son and Spirit to be thine through the blessed Mediator, and Resignation of thyself to be theirs through the same only Propitiation, 'tis sure thy Mittimus to Hell is stopped and superseded, thy Pass to Heaven is granted. He will deliver thy Soul from going down into the Pit, and thy Life shall see the Light, Job 33.28. Benhadad escaped by casting himself on the Mercy of the King of Israel: It shall never repent thee, if in his holy appointed way thou ca●t thyself on the King of Heaven's Mercy. Heaven cannot shut, nor Hellopen, unto a Soul sincerely weary of all the Sin it hath, and sick of desire for all the grace it wants. I should think thee in Hell's mouth, If I heard thee uttering boasts of having all. Grace; or content, as having enough. They that have most, do all cry, that 'tis next to none that they have. And the higher they get in holy Qualifications, the lower they fall in their Apprehensions of themselves. He that giveth Grace to the Humble, maketh them yet more Humble by all the Grace He gives them I would rather be the worst Humble man than the best Proud one in the World; and specially, the spiritually Proud. Well, in a word: Beg the Holy Spirit to keep thee from both extremes; from Dreaming of safety while building on the Sand, and from Despairing of Mercy when thou buildest on the Rock Christ.  
Now, O every one of you needy Souls that I address unto, may you know the things of your Peace in the short span of your time that remains. If this little Gospel-Net catch but one Fish among you, I win more than a World. But I have sent up Prayers to Him that can make it take take thousands of you, that He would so do. And take all the Glory of it unto Himself, when He has done it. Sirs, I shall be certified that He hath granted my Cries, if ever I shall hear that you grant me but these Requests, which conclude my Call unto you. They are for your observance of these rules in your endeavouring, if indeed you will endeavour, to Reconcile you to God e'er ye Dye.  
R. 1. That you enter on it with such Solemnity as such a Work well deserves. Get as many Godly Ministers and Friends as you can, to come join with you in Fasting and Prayer for divine Blessing on your great enterprise: Testify to your God, to your Conscience, and to all godly conscientious Folk about you, that you have higher Thoughts of God, than to dare go about making your Peace with his Majesty, as tho' 'twere a business, that either did not Require or would not Requite, the greatest and humblest Care and Pains.  
R. 2. That you stick to it closely and constantly, as that Work will require you to do. I, and would have required, had you begun ever so soon, and were you to live ever so long. Sirs, is not your Worldly business yet over? is not your Peace with God now, your one and only busisiness? All of the four and twenty hours that ye do not sleep out, methinks you might now spend very freely in the work I have proposed. Formerly, 'twas all of it spent in running away farther from God's peace: why, now should but a part of it be laid out in making after it? The time was when you begrudged God an half hour's diversion from the World or sinful Pleasure. You now reproach God fearfully, if ye begrudge not the World the least Unnecessary diversion from God's proper service.  
R. 3. That you Observe and Lament in all you do, that Leprosy of Selfishness, which of all things is hardest to be cured. To love yourself is no Sin, but Duty; but Love of Self above God, what is that, think you? God is so just, that were there any thing else so good as He, he would love it as well as himself; were there ought better, he would love it better, than himself. Now alas, alas! God is truly all-good and all-lovely: Nothing is lovely but as of and for him; yet how do you find it? what care you for God but for your own ends? could you not sin on as jocundly as ever, and omit all Duty as profanely, but for fear of your own Sufferings in Hell, and for desire of your own Pleasures in Heaven? Is it not for Self-ends that you list to know God, or be at Peace with him? Yes, it is, and to turn the Scales, and get to love yourselves but for God's honours sake, to desire Pardon of Sin, Peace of Conscience, Deliverance from Hell, principally that ye may thereby Love and Honour God; is this Easie? Or is it, think you, Unnecessary? Sirs, mark it well; I count not that you have received your sight, or any sense of your Duty and Business, till you are crying to this purpose, viz. O blessed God, thanks to thine own Grace for it, I have begun to seek my Reconciliation unto thee; and I do not, nor dare I but hold on seeking: But, woe is me, a cursed Selfishness (I see) has, and still does act me. Oh! I have not, nor do I yet carry it towards Thee, as a God, and above all, yea Universal good. I would I could Love thee so as to be ashamed of my sin in time past, and to be afraid of it for the future, principally because of Love to thy All-loveliness. Oh that I could say, If there were no Heaven to reward, nor Hell to Punish me, yet so do I love God and hate sin, that of all things I would desire to be Reconciled to Him and Live his Praises. But Oh, tho' I discern 'tis as necessary to my Happiness that I Love thee, as that I am Loved of thee, and that if I love not thee, I love not any good at all, for thou art one and All; I, and that I do not love thee rightly, till I do love thee above all, and Love nothing but thee and for thy sake: Yet is there a Millstone about my neck that presseth me down into deep Selfishness, and hinders my seeking thee without giving thee greatest Provocations for ever to abhor me. Sirs, your real weariness of this said Millstone would be a token for good.  
R. 4. That you by no means argue from the Multitude or Greatness, or Long Continuance of your Sins, that there is no Help for you in God. True, Sin is an evil, in one sense Infinite: 'Tis against an Infinite God. One sin did deserve and procure the whole World's Condemnation. One sin takes more honour from God, than all the Obedience of mere Creatures can repair. And what then; sin, for all this, is not Infinite, so as God's Mercy, and Christ's Merits, and the Holy Ghosts mighty Power are infinite. No, such are these, that if I myself had sinned all the sins of the fallen Angels, and of fallen Mankind both, Christ's Blood could satisfy for all: the Holy Ghost could sanctify and cleanse me from all: The Mercy of God could forgive me all. I and observe it: Heaven has more than a few, of them who were on earth more sinful than ordinary, for a sadly long time. Again I tell you: Unless your present and future Unbelief hold you down under them, no sins can be your ruin. 'Tis not falling into the water that is deepest, drowns a man; but 'tis keeping down under the water. Sirs, Vomit up now all your heretofore sweet poisons, make all your sins to become your shames and sorrow, let no one of them live in your favour, and (fear it not) you shall not die in their guilt. If we ourselves stood bound to pay unto God the satisfaction of any one Sin, there were no hope of our Salvation: but that is undertaken by Christ who suffered death and the pains of Hell in our stead, whom if the chief of sinners commit and submit themselves unto, there is as little fear of their Damnation.  
R. 5. That you be sure to be Orderly and Universal in this your great work. My meaning is: that you seek good things in their good Order; the first firstly, and so onward: and that you seek all Gods proposed good things, all and every of the Number. Do not as many do wildly; do not crave to have the Sacraments, before you competently understand the Commandments: nor pretend to be keepers of the Holy Commandments, till you competently understand the Blessed Pattern of Prayer: nor dream ye a possibility of profitably Receiving the Sacrament, or Obeying any Commandment, or making any Prayer, till you are competently acquainted with the Gospel Creed. Do not conceit yourselves capable of Comfort before Holiness, or of Holiness before Union to Christ, or of saving Union to Christ before Faith, or of Faith before Humiliation, or of Humiliation before Conviction. Seek all, and seek in Order! O seek 'em but as you believe that damned Souls in Hell would seek 'em, if they had but your Capacity and your Call. The Lord grant when your Bodies drop into the Pit, your Souls may not fall into Eternal Flames. And that your Real Conversion may be so sensible, as to be Comfortable to yourselves; and so Visible, as that it may be said by all who see your end, Behold God hath granted unto these Prisoners [and these Dying Creatures,] Repentance unto Life. Amen.  
FINIS.   

Books to be Sold by Tho. Parkhurst, at the Bible and three Crowns in Cheapside.  
THree Questions resolved briefly and plainly; Viz.  
1. What Conceptions ought we to have of the blessed God?  
2. What are those Truths, whereof the Knowledge appeareth most indispensibly necessary unto our Salvation; and (therefore) to be first and most Learned by us?  
3. What is the Change wrought in a Man by God's H. Word and Spirit, before he can safely conclude himself passed from Death to Life? Being the Sum of three Sermons.  
The Christians earnest Expectation and Longing for the glorious Appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Set forth in a Discourse occasioned by the Decease of that Excellent Christian and Minister of Christ, Mr. Noah Webb, late of Sandhurst in the County of Berks.  
The Christian Temper: Or, the Quiet State of Mind that God's Servants labour for. Set forth in a Sermon at the Funeral of Mrs. Ursula Collins. All three by Daniel Burgess, Minister of the Gospel.