Ralph Erskine (1685–1752) on Christ Begging

What ails you at him, Sirs? O! is he not worth your while, though you should run through hell to come to him? Is there not a heart in all this company that would fain be at him? Alas! would you rather go to the devil than come to Christ? That a comely Jesus cannot get two or three hearts in all this company, O pity! pity! and a thousand pities tht the beauty of the Godhead cannot get a lover! Will you all be so mad as to run by Christ to other lovers, while he begs your love, as if he were upon his knees, and sends us to pray you in his stead to be reconciled with him, and come to him?

Ralph Erskine, “The Comer’s Conflict,” in The Sermons and other Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Ralph Erskine, 10 vols. (Falkirk: Printed by Patrick Mair, For the Rev. John Stewart, Hugh Mitchell, Bookseller, and Peter Muirhead, Merchant, the Publishers, 1796), 6:281.

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