Two treatises tending to awaken secure sinners viz., 1. The terror of the day…

Answ. There is a fivefold Evidence among Men. 1. When the Fact is notorious. 2. The Knowledge of an unsuspected competent Judg. 3. The Parties Confession. 4. Witness. 5. Instruments and visible Effects of the Action. All these Evidences will be at hand, and any one of them sufficient for the Conviction of the guilty Person at that Day.

Answ. There is a fivefold Evidence among Men. 1. When the Fact is notorious. 2. The Knowledg of an unsuspected competent Judg. 3. The Parties Confession. 4. Witness. 5. Instruments and visible Effects of the Action. All these Evidences will be at hand, and any one of them sufficient for the Conviction of the guilty Person at that Day.

1. As the Sins of all Men, so the Impenitency and Rebellion of the Wicked was notorious, or at least will be then. For though some play the Hypocrites, and hide the Matter from the World and themselves, yet God shall open their Hearts and former Lives to themselves, and to the view of all the World. He shall set their Sins in Order before them, so that it shall be utterly in vain to deny or excuse them. If any Man will then think to make their Cause as good to God as they can now do to us, that are not able to see their Hearts, they will be foully mistaken. Now they can say they have as good Hearts as the best: then God will bring them out in the Light, and show them to themselves and all the World, whether they were good or bad. Now they will face us down that they do truly ⟨p. 18⟩repent, and they obey God as well as they can; but God that knoweth the Deceivers will then undeceive them. We cannot now make Men acquainted with their own unsanctified Hearts, nor convince them that have not true Faith, Repentance or Obedience, but God will convince them of it; they can find Shifts and false Answers to put off a Minister with, but God will not so be shifted off. Let us preach as plainly to them as we can, and do all that ever we are able to acquaint them with the Impenitency and Unholiness of their own Heart, and the Necessity of a new Heart and Life, yet we cannot do it, but they will believe whether we will or not, that the old Heart will serve the turn. But how easily will God make them know the contrary? We plead with them in the dark, for though we have the Candle of the Gospel in our hands when we come to show them their Corruption, yet they shut their Eyes and are wilfully blind; but God will open their Eyes whether they will or not, not by holy Illumination, but by forced Conviction; and then he will plead with them as in the open Light. See here thy own unholy Soul; canst thou now say thou didst love me above all? canst thou deny but thou didst love this World before me, and serve thy Flesh and Lusts, though I told thee if thou idst so thou shouldst die? Look upon thy own Heart now, and see whether it be an holy or an unholy Heart, a spiritual or a fleshly Heart, a heavenly or an earthly Heart. Look now upon all the Course of thy Life, and see whether thou didst live to me, or to the World and thy Flesh.