An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

Reader, hath conscience been at work, while thou hast been looking over these lines? Hast thou pondered these things in thine heart? Hast thou searched the book within, to see if these things be so? If not, read it again, and make thy conscience to speak whether or no it be thus with thee.

Hast thou crucified thy flesh with its affections and lusts, and not only confessed, but forsaken thy sins, all sin in thy fervent desires, and the ordinary practice of every deliberate and wilful sin in thy life? If not, thou are yet unconverted. Doth not conscience fly in thy face, as thou readest, and tell thee that thou livest in a way of lying for thy advantage, that thou usest deceit in thy calling, that there is some way of secret wantonness that thou livest in? Why then, do not deceive thy self, thou art in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity.

Hast thou crucified thy flesh with its affections and lusts, and not only confessed, but forsaken thy sins, all sin in thy servent desires, and the ordinary practice of every deliberate and willful sin in thy life? If not, thou are yet unconverted. Doth not conscience fly in thy face, as thou readest, and tell thee that thou livest in a way of lying for thy advantage, that thou usest deceit in thy calling, that there is some way of secret wantonness that thou livest in? Why then, do not deceive thy self, thou art in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity.

Doth not thine unbridled tongue, thy brutish intemperance, thy wicked company, thy neglect of prayer, of hearing and reading the word now witness against thee, and say, We are thy works, and we will follow thee? Or if I have not hit the right, doth not the bird within ⟨p. 42⟩tell thee, there is such or such a way, that thou knowest to be evil, that yet for some carnal respect thou dost tolerate thy self in, and art willing to spare? If this be the case, thou art to this day unregenerate, and must be changed, or condemned.