An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

Ans. Distinguish between sinners. 1. There are resolved sinners: their prayers God abhors. 2. Returning sinners: these God will come forth to, and meet with mercy though yet afar off. Luke 15. 20. Though the prayers of the unsanctified cannot have full acceptance; yet God hath done much at the request of such, as at Ahab's humiliation, and Nineveh's fast. 1 Kings 21. 29. ⟨p. 174⟩Jonah 3. 8, 9, 10. Surely thou mayest go as far as these, though thou hast no Grace: and how dost thou know but thou mayest speed in thy suit, as they did in theirs? Yea, is he not far more likely to grant thee, than them; since thou askest in the name of Christ, and that not for temporal blessings, as they; but for things much more pleasing to him, viz. for Christ, Grace, Pardon, that thou mayest be justified, sanctified, renewed, and fitted to serve him? Turn to those soul encouraging Scriptures, Prov. 2. 1, to 6. Luke 11. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Prov. 8. 34, 35.

Ans. Distinguish between sinners. 1. There are resolved sinners: their praiers God abhors. 2. Returning sinners: these God will come forth to, and meet with mercy though yet afar off. Luke 15. 20. Though the praiers of the unsanctified cannot have full acceptance; yet God hath done much at the request of such, as at Ahabs humiliation, and Ninivehs fast. 1 Kings 21. 29. ⟨p. 174⟩Ionah 3. 8, 9, 10. Surely thou maist go as far as these, though thou hast no Grace: and how dost thou know but thou maist speed in thy suit, as they did in theirs? Yea, is he not far more likely to grant thee, than them; since thou askest in the name of Christ, and that not for temporal blessings, as they; but for things much more pleasing to him, viz. for Christ, Grace, Pardon, that thou maist be justified, sanctified, renewed, and fitted to serve him? Turn to those soul incouraging Scriptures,