An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

Those Jews in the Prophet seemed as well resolved as any in the world, and call God to witness, that they meant, as they said. But they stuck in generals. When Gods command crosses their inclination, they will not obey. Jer. 42. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. compared with ch. 43 v. 2. Take the Assemblies larger Catechism, and see their excellent and most compendious exposition of the Commandments, and put thy heart to it. Art thou resolved, in the strength of Christ, to set upon the conscientious practice of every duty that thou findest to be there required of thee, and to set against every sin that thou findest there forbidden? This is the way to be sound in Gods statutes, that thou mayest never be ashamed. Psal. 119 80. Thirdly, Observe the special duties that thy heart is most against, and the special sins that 'tis most inclined unto, and see whether it be truly resolved to perform the one, and forgo the other. What sayest thou to thy bosom sin, thy gainful sin? What sayest thou to costly, and hazardous, and flesh-displeasing duties? If thou haltest here, and dost not resolve by the grace of God to cross thy flesh, and put to it, thou art unsound. Psal. 18. 23. Psal. 119. 6.

Those Jews in the Prophet seemed as well resolved as any in the world, and call God to witness, that they meant, as they said. But they stuck in generals. When Gods command crosses their inclination, they will not obey. Ier. 42. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. compared with ch. 43 v. 2. Take the Assemblies larger Catechism, and see their excellent and most compendious exposition of the Commandments, and put thy heart to it. Art thou resolved, in the strength of Christ, to set upon the conscientious practice of every duty that thou findest to be there required of thee, and to set against every sin that thou findest there forbidden? This is the way to be sound in Gods statutes, that thou maist never be ashamed. Psal. 119 80. Thirdly, Observe the special duties that thy heart is most against, and the special sins that 'tis most inclin'd unto, and see whether it be truly resolved to perform the one, and forgo the other. What sayst thou to thy bosom sin, thy gainful sin? What sayst thou to costly, and hazardous, and flesh-displeasing duties? If thou haltest here, and dost not resolve by the grace of God to cross thy flesh, and put to it, thou art unsound.