IT will be so between man and man. If one has wronged you, and you have pardoned him, you expect that he should do what he can for you. It should be thus with you and God. You have wronged God, others have sinned as well as you, and other's sins have been furthered by you. This now should inflame your hearts. "I have sin enough in myself, and I have been the cause of it in thousands and thousands of sins in others. My sin strikes at God, yes, and I have caused others to sin and strike against God. Now, if I could draw some from sin, I should thin it the happiest thing in the world. I would creep upon my hands and knees to draw others from sin to God, to e in love with the ways of God and of religion.
Oh, you who have been forward in sin, don't think enough that you now are troubled for your sin and leave them. But know that you must do for God now as much as you have done against Him. He requires it of you. Oh, go to your friends, acquaintances, and relatives. Labor to drawer them off sin. Tell your kindred, friends, and acquaintances, "Oh brother, if you only knew what sin means. Oh, sister, if you only understood what it is to sin against God! God has showed me in some measure. Yes, I, who went on in such and such sins, now see how I struck at God what an evil this is. Oh, that God would enlighten your eyes. Come and hear the Word. I thought lightly of sin before, now I have gone and hard, and God has showed me what it was. Oh, that God would make you see."
Pray for them, and do not take any "nays," but go to them again and again, that so you may do something for God as you have done an abundance of wrong against God. [Jeremiah Burroughs]
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