An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

More particularly, this change of conversion passes throughout in the whole subject. A carnal ⟨p. 27⟩person may have some shreds of good morality, a little near the list, but he is never good throughout the whole cloth, the whole body of Holiness and Christianity: feel him a little further near the ridge, and you shall see him to be but a deceitful piece. Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down, and erects a new structure: it is not the putting in a patch or sowing on a list of holiness; but with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice. The sincere Christian is quite a new fabric, from the foundation to the top stone all fire-new. He is a new man, Eph. 4. 24. a new creature, All things are become new. 2. Cor. 5. 17. Conversion is a deep work, a heart work; Act. 2. 37. and 16. 14. it turns all upside down, and makes a man begin a new world. It goes throughout with men, throughout the Mind, throughout the Members, throughout the motions of the whole life.

More particularly, this change of conversion passes thorowout in the whole subject. A carnal ⟨p. 27⟩person may have some shreds of good morality, a little near the list, but he is never good throughout the whole cloth, the whole body of Holiness and Christianity: feel him a little further near the ridge, and you shall see him to be but a deceitful piece. Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down, and erects a new structure: it is not the putting in a patch or sowing on a list of holiness; but with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice. The sincere Christian is quite a new fabrick, from the foundation to the top stone all fire-new. He is a new man, Eph. 4. 24. a new creature, All things are become new.