"Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings." --- Jeremiah 3:22. See also Luke 15:20. "When he was yet a great way off --".
Hear, therefore, the voice of thy loving heavenly Father and Shepherd, O thou backsliding children and lost sheep, crying earnestly, Return, return. Do not run in the broad way with the world any longer. Are you not yet tired of the husks of the world? Do you feel no troubles in your soul? Shall not these drive thee to God? Lo! thy Father and Shepherd seek thee. He is gone forth to call and meet thee already. He will receive thee willingly and joyfully. Come, only praying as the prodigal son, and he will forgive thee all, though thou hast sinned ever so much.
He is also able to heal and correct the most desperate corruptions of thy heart; he can deliver thee from the very jaws of hell and the devil. Nay, if thou wert possessed with more than seven devils, he can still cast them out. Begin to call upon him earnestly in prayer, and, poor and wretched as thou art, come to him as the physician of thy soul; for the physician and the sick, a rich Saviour and a poor sinner, are best suited to one another. He healeth all our diseases, and can make possible what seems most impossible to thee.
Come, all ye vile sinners, come,
He'll form your souls anew;
His gospel and his heart have room
For rebels such as you.