An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

Hear what the Lord saith; Fear ye not me saith the Lord? Will ye not tremble at my presence? Jer. 5. 22. Oh sinners, do you make light of the wrath to come? Mat. 3. 7. I am sure there is a time coming, when you will not make light of it. Why, the very Devils do believe and tremble. James 2. 19. What, you more hardened than they? Will you run upon the edge of the rock? will you play at the hole of the Asp? will you put your hand upon the Cockatrice den? Will you dance about the fire, till you are burnt? or dally with devouring wrath, as if you were at a point of indifferency, whether you did escape it, or endure it? Oh madness of folly! Solomon's mad man, that casteth firebrands, and arrows, and death, and faith, am I not in jest? Prov. 26. 18. is nothing so distracted as the wilful sinner, Luke 15. 17. that goeth on in his unconverted estate without sense, as if nothing ailed him. The man that runs on the Cannons mouth, that sports with his blood, or lets out his life in a frolic, is sensible, sober and serious, to him that goeth on still in his trespasses. Psal. 68. 21. For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the ALMIGHTY. He runneth upon him, even upon his neck, upon the thick bosses of his buckler. Job. 15. 25, 26. Is it wisdom to play with the second death, or to ⟨p. 133⟩venture into the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, Rev 21. 8. as if thou wert but going to wash thee or swim for thy recreation? Wilt thou as it were fetch thy vieze, and jump into eternal flames, as the children through the bonfire? What shall I say? I can find out no expression, no comparison whereby to set forth the dreadful distraction of that soul, that shall go on in sin.

Hear what the Lord saith; Fear ye not me saith the Lord? Will ye not tremble at my presence?