But, coming sinner, let me reason with thee.  Thou sayest it is too big, too great.  Well, will things that are less satisfy thy soul?  Will a less thing than heaven, than glory and eternal life, answer thy desires?  “No, nothing less.  Yet I fear they are too big, and too good for me even to obtain.”  Well, as big and as good as they are, God giveth them to such as thou.  They are not too big for God to give; no, not too big to give freely.  Be content; let God give like himself; he is that eternal God, and giveth like himself.  When kings give, they do not use to give as poor men do.  Now, God is a great King; let him give like a king; nay, let him give like himself, and do thou receive like thyself.  He has all, and thou hast nothing.

5.  Thy fears that Christ will not receive thee, may arise from thine own folly in INVETING, yea, in thy chalking out to God a way to bring thee home to Jesus Christ.  Some souls that are coming to Jesus Christ are great tormentors of themselves upon this account.  They conclude that if their coming to Jesus Christ is right, they must needs be brought home thus and thus.

Now, I say, if God brings thee to Christ, and not by the way that thou hast appointed, then thou art at a loss; and for thy being at a loss, thou mayest thank thyself.  God hath more ways than thou knowest of to bring a sinner to Jesus Christ; but he will not give thee before-hand an account by which of them he will bring thee to Christ.

Sometimes he hath his ways in the whirlwind, but sometimes the Lord is not there.

If God will deal more gently with thee than with others of his children, grudge not at it; refuse not the waters that go softly, lest he bring up to thee the waters of the rivers strong and many, even those two smoking firebrands, the devil and guilt of sin.  He saith to Peter, “Follow me;” and what thunder did Zaccheus hear or see?  “Zaccheus, come down,” said Christ; and he came down, says Luke, and received him joyfully.

But had Peter or Zaccheus made the objection that thou hast made-looking for a heavy load of guilt, or fearful temptations of Satan-and directed the Spirit of the Lord as thou hast done, they might have looked long enough before they had found themselves coming to Jesus Christ.

Poor creature!  Thou criest, “If I were tempted, I could come faster and with more confidence to Jesus Christ.”  Thou sayest thou knowest not what.  What says Job?  “Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread make me afraid:  then call thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.”  Job 13:  21, 22.  It is not the over-heavy load of sin, but the discovery of mercy-not the roaring of the devil, but the drawing of the Father, that makes a man come to Jesus Christ.  I myself know all these things.