An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

To be short, he tells you; I am the true and faithful God. If you will have me for your God, you must be content to trust me. 2 Tim. 1. 12. Prov. 3. 5. Will you venture your selves upon my word, and depend on my faithfulness, and take my bond for your security? Will you be content to follow me, in poverty, and reproach, & affliction ⟨p. 156⟩here, and to see much going out, and little coming in, and to tarry till the next world for your preferment? Mat. 19. 21. I deal much upon trust, will you be content to labour, and suffer, and to tarry for your returns, till the resurrection of the just? Luke 14. 14. The womb of my promise will not presently bring forth; will you have the patience to wait? Heb. 10. 36. Now beloved, what say you to this? Will you have this God for your God? Will you be content to live by faith, and trust him for an unseen happiness, an unseen Heaven, an unseen glory? Do your hearts answer, Lord, we will venture our souls upon thee, we commit our selves to thee: we roll upon thee, we know whom we have trusted: we are willing to take thy word: we will prefer thy promises, before our own possessions; and the hopes of Heaven, before all the enjoyments of the earth. We will wait thy leisure. What thou wilt here, so that we may have but thy faithful promise for Heaven hereafter? If you can in truth, and upon deliberation, thus accept of God, he will be yours. Thus there must be, in a right Conversion to God, a closing with him suitable to his excellencies. But when men close with his mercy, but not with his sin-hating holiness and purity; or will take him for their benefactor, but not for their Sovereign; or for their Patron, but not for their portion, this is no through, and so no sound Conversion.

To be short, he tells you; I am the true and faithful God. If you will have me for your God, you must be content to trust me. 2 Tim. 1. 12