An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

O thou all-powerful Jehovah, that workest, and none can let thee; that hast the keys of •ell and of death: pity thou the dead souls that lie here entombed, and roll away the grave-stone, and say, as to Lazarus when already stinking, Come forth. Lighten thou this darkness, O inaccessible light, and let the day-spring from on high, visit the darksome region of the dead to whom I speak: for thou canst open the eyes that death it self hath closed. Thou that formedst the ear, canst restore the hearing. S•y thou to these ears, Ephatah, and they shall be opened. Give thou eyes to see thine excellencies•• a taste that may relish thy sweetness; a sent that may savour thine ointments, • a feeling ⟨p. 109⟩that may sense the privilege of thy favour, the burden of thy wrath, the weight intolerable of unpardoned sin: and give thy servant command to prophesy to the dry bones, and let the effect of this prophesy be, as of thy Prophet's, when he prophesied the valley of dry bones, into a living army, exceeding great. Ezek. 37. 1. &c. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley, which was full of bones. He said unto me, prophesy upon th•se bones, and say unto them; O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together bone to his bone. And when I behold, Lo the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and covered them above, but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me; Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy son of man, and say to the wind; Thus saith the Lord God, C•me from the four winds, O breath, and breath upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.