Calling out to others

Some talk of it as an unreasonable thing to fright persons to heaven; but I think it is a reasonable thing to endeavor to fright persons away from hell - tis a reasonable thing to fright a person out of a house on fire. (Jonathan Edwards, quoted in Piper, John. "The Supremacy of God in Preaching." Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books. 2004. p93)

If any of you that are heads of families, saw one of your children in a house that was all on fire over its head, and in imminent danger of being soon consumed in the flames, that seemed to be very insensible of its danger, and neglected to escape, after you had often spake to it, and called to it, would you go on to speak to it only in a cold and indifferent manner? Would not you cry aloud, and call earnestly to it, and represent the danger it was in, and its own folly in delaying, in the most lively manner you were capable of? Would not nature itself teach this, and oblige you to it? If you should continue to speak to it only in a cold manner, as you are wont to do in ordinary conversations about indifferent matters, would not those about you begin to think you bereft of reason yourself? . . .

If [then] we who have the care of souls, knew what hell was, had seen the state of the damned, or by any other means, become sensible how dreadful their case was . . . and saw our hearers in imminent danger, and that they were not sensible of their danger . . . it would be morally impossible for us to avoid abundantly and most earnestly setting before them the dreadfulness of that misery they were in danger of . . . and warning them to fly from it, and even to cry aloud to them. (ibid. pp52-53)