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It is time.* 1.1
First,* 1.2 Yet you have time to seek the Lord; 'Tis well for you that you have time to seek the Lord; It is mercy that there is any time at al to seek the Lord. It might have been past time with you for seeking the Lord, God might have forc'd his honor from you in another way, have fech't out his glory from you in your eternal ruin, Oh! 'tis mercy that God will be sought of you,* 1.3 and therefore plow up your
fallow ground, and sow in Righteousness; for it is time to seek the Lord. Oh! you that are the oldest and wickedest, and yet live still, Oh! remember this Scripture; yet, you have time to seek the Lord, It is mercy that you have any time to seek the Lord: If you did but understand what this mercy were, ye would fal down with your faces upon the ground and bless the Lord that you have yet time to seek him. What do you think those damned creatures in Hell would now give, if it might be said of them, That they have time to seek the Lord, if they might have but one hour more to seek the Lord with any hope to obtain mercy from him? What you are now, they were not long since: Oh! do you fear and tremble, lest, if you not seeking the Lord, you ere long be, as now they are, that it shall be said of you, Time is gon, time to seek the Lord is past; I will not now be sought of you; Seek the Lord while he may be found, and call upon him while he is near, It was a speech once of a woman in terror of Conscience,* 1.4 when divers came to her (it was in Cambridge) divers Ministers and others coming to her in way of comforting of her, she looks with a gastly counte∣nance upon them, and gives them only this Answer, Call time again: If you can call time again, than there may be hope for me: but time is gone.
Oh! that we had hearts to prize our time, to seek the Lord therefore while he may be found. And when thou goest home, fall down upon thy face before the Lord, and bless him that yet it is time to seek the Lord. It is time for the publick, through Gods mercy it is time, yet for us to seek the Lord. It might have been past time; and who almost that did desire to know any thing of Gods mind for seven or eight yeers ago or more, but did think that Englands time was even gone of seeking God? But the Lord hath been pleased to lengthen out our time to seek Him; and this we should prize and make use of.
Expos. 1.
To have time to seek the Lord, a great mercy.
Use▪
The say∣ing of a dispai••ing woman in Cambridge▪