An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

O wretched man, that canst have no ease in this case, but what comes from the deadliness of thy disease! You shall have the poor sick man, saying in his lightness, he is well; when you see death in his face. He will needs up and about his business, when the very next step is like to be into the grave. The unsanctified often feel nothing amiss, they think themselves whole, and cry not out for the Physician, but this shows the danger of their case.

O wretched man, that canst have no ease in this case, but what comes from the deadliness of thy disease! You shall have the poor sick man, saying in his lightness, he is well; when you see death in his face. He will needs up and about his business, when the very next step is like to be into the grave. The unsanctified often feel nothing amiss, they think themselves whole, and cry not out for the Physician, but this shews the danger of their case.

Sin doth naturally breed distempers and disturbance in the soul. What a continual tempest and commotion is there, in a discontented mind? What an eating evil is inordinate care? What is passion, but a very fever in the mind? What is Lust, but a fire in the bones? What is Pride but a deadly tympany? or covetousness, but an unsatiable and unsufferable thirst? or malice and envy, but venom in the very heart? Spiritual sloth is but a scurvy in the mind, and carnal security, a mortal lethargy. And how can that soul have true comfort that is under so many diseases? But converting grace cures, and so eases the mind, and prepares the soul for a settled, standing, immortal peace. Great peace have they that love thy commandments, and nothing shall offend them. Psal. 119. 165. They are the ways of wisdom that afford pleasure and peace. Prov. 3. 17. David had infinitely more pleasure ⟨p. 69⟩in the word, than in all the delights of his Court,