You may grow harder and more determined in sin, in proportion as God employs means for your salvation. This Page 5 affliction, suited to quicken you to reflection, and lead you to the cross, may be perverted to the increase of your corruption and guilt. But I hope better things of you though I thus write. If you would be a Christian, the first requisite is decision of purpose. Whatever else you may have, you cannot be saved without this.
Indecision is one of the greatest barriers to the salvation of sinners.
If, my friend, you would be saved, your mind must be fully made up, at any sacrifice, and through any difficulty and peril, to secure the great deliverance. If this disposition is needful in secular, much more in religious pursuits. He that would enter in at the strait or difficult gate must strive or agonize. Luke xiii, 24. No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.