An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

It may be they will tell you, that this talk of Conversion is fitter for Pagans and Infidels to hear, than Christians and Protestants. Because such mens big looks or Coats may make the poison the easilier taken down, I will entreat thee but as before God to answer these following questions, or to get them answered, and then judge whether it be They or We that would deceive thee? and whether, as men use to talk against Learning that have none themselves, so such men prate not against Conversion and the Spirit of God, because they have no such thing themselves?

It may be they will tell you, that this talk of Conversion is fitter for Pagans and Infidels to hear, than Christians and Protestants. Because such mens big looks or Coats may make the poyson the easilier taken down, I will intreat thee but as before God to answer these following questions, or to get them answered, and then judge whether it be They or We that would deceive thee? and whether, as men use to talk against Learning that have none themselves, so such men prate not against Conversion and the Spirit of God, because they have no such thing themselves?

Qu. 1. I pray ask these men, whether it be a Puritan or Fanatic opinion ⟨image 12⟩that men must dye? and what all the pomp, and wealth, and pleasure of the World will signify to a departing soul? Ask them whether they will live on Earth for ever, and their merry hours, and Lordly looks will have no end? And whether it be but the conceit of Hypocrites and Schismatics, that their Carcasses must lie rotting in a darksome grave?

Qu. 1. I pray ask these men, whether it be a Puritane or Phanatick opinion ⟨image 12⟩that men must dye? and what all the pomp, and wealth, and pleasure of the World will signifie to a departing soul? Ask them whether they will live on Earth for ever, and their merry hours, and Lordly looks will have no end? And whether it be but the conceit of Hypocrites and Schismaticks, that their Carcases must lie rotting in a darksome grave?