An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

O ye Saints, how should you love the word? for by this you have been converted. O ye sinners, how should you ply the word? for by this you must be converted No other ordinary means, but this. You that have felt its renewing power, make much of it while you live, be for ever thankful for it. Tie it about your necks, write it upon your hands, lay it in your bosoms. Prov. 6. 21, 22. When you go let it lead you, when you sleep let it keep you, when you wake let it talk with you. Say with holy David, I will never forget thy precepts, for by them hast thou quickened me. Psal. 119. 93. You that are unconverted, read the word with diligence; flock to it, where powerfully preached; fill the porches, as the multitude ⟨p. 25⟩of the impotent, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the waters. Joh. 5. 3. Pray for the coming of the spirit in the word. Come off thy knees to the sermon: and come to thy knees from the sermon. The seed doth not prosper because not watered by prayers and tears, nor covered by meditation.

O ye Saints, how should you love the word? for by this you have been converted. O ye sinners, how should you ply the word? for by this you must be converted No other ordinary means, but this. You that have felt its renewing power, make much of it while you live, be for ever thankful for it. Tie it about your necks, write it upon your hands, lay it in your bosoms. Prov. 6. 21, 22. When you go let it lead you, when you sleep let it keep you, when you wake let it talk with you. Say with holy• David, I will never forget thy precepts, for by them hast thou quickened me. Psal. 119. 93. You that are unconverted, read the word with diligence; flock to it, where powerfully preached; fill the porches, as the multitude ⟨p. 25⟩of the impotent, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the waters.