An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

Obj. Notwithstanding all these abatements, I am no more able to perform these conditions, (in themselves so easy) of faith and repentance, and sincere obedience, than to satisfy and fulfil the law.

Obj. Notwithstanding all these abatements, I am no more able to perform these conditions, (in themselves so easie) of faith and repentance, and sincere obedience, than to satisfy and fulfil the law.

Answ. These you may perform by Gods grace enabling, whereas the other are naturally impossible, in this state, even to believers themselves. But let the next consideration serve for a fuller answer.

5. Wherein you are impotent, God doth offer grace to enable you. I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded. Prov. 1. 24. What though you are plunged into the ditch of that misery from which you can never get out? Christ offereth to help you out; he stretcheth forth his hand to you, and if you perish, it is for refusing his help. Behold I stand at the door, and knock: if any man open to me, I will come in. Rev. 3. 20. What though you are poor, and wretched, and blind, and naked, Christ offereth a cure for your blindness, a cover for your nakedness, a remedy for your poverty: he tendereth you his righteousness, his graces. I counsel thee to buy of me gold that thou mayest be rich, and white ra• meant that thou mayest be clothed, and anoint thine ⟨p. 201⟩eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest see,