“I confess to my shame, that I remember no one sin that my conscience does so much accuse and judge me for, as doing so little for the salvation of men’s souls, and dealing no more honestly and fervently with them for their conversion.
I confess when I am alone, and think of the case of poor, ignorant, worldly, unconverted sinners that do not live to God, nor set their hearts on the life to come, my conscience tells me that I should go to as many of them as I can, and tell them plainly of their need of the Saviour and of the eternal blessings if they do so, and what will become of them if they do not turn to the Lord.
Though I have many excuses, yet none of them satisfies my own conscience when I consider what heaven and hell are, which tells me that I should follow them night and day with all earnestness, and take no denial till they turn to the Lord, and receive Him as their own Saviour.”