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

1. All the Ministers of Christ that ever preached to them, or warned them, will be sufficient Witnesses against them; we must needs testify that we preached to them the Truth of the Gospel, and they would not believe it. We preached to them the Goodness of God, yet they set not their Hearts upon him; we showed them their Sin, and they were not humbled: we told them of the danger of an unregenerate State, and they did not regard us: we acquainted them with the absolute Necessity of Holiness, but they made light of all: we let them know the Deceitfulness of their Hearts, and the need of a close and faithful Examination, but they would not bestow an Hour in such a Work, nor scarce once be afraid of being mistaken and miscarrying. We let them know the Vanity of this World, and yet they would not forsake it, no not for Christ and the Hopes of Glory: we told them of the everlasting Felicity they might attain, but they would not set themselves to seek it.

1. All the Ministers of Christ that ever preached to them, or warned them, will be sufficient Witnesses against them; we must needs testify that we preached to them the Truth of the Gospel, and they would not believe it. We preached to them the Goodness of God, yet they set not their Hearts upon him; we shewed them their Sin, and they were not humbled: we told them of the danger of an unregenerate State, and they did not regard us: we acquainted them with the absolute Necessity of Holiness, but they made light of all: we let them know the Deceitfulness of their Hearts, and the need of a close and faithful Examination, but they would not bestow an Hour in such a Work, nor scarce once be afraid of being mistaken and miscarrying. We let them know the Vanity of this World, and yet they would not forsake it, no not for Christ and the Hopes of Glory: we told them of the everlasting Felicity they might attain, but they would not set themselves to seek it.

What we shall think of it then the Lord knows, but surely it seemeth now to us a matter of very sad Consideration, that we must be brought in as Witnesses against the Souls of our Neighbours and Friends in the Flesh. Those whom we now unfeignedly love, and would do any thing that we were able to do for their good, whose Welfare is dearer to us than all worldly Enjoyments. Alas, that we must be forced to testify to their Faces for their Condemnation! Ah Lord, with what a Heart must a poor Minister study, when he considereth this, that all the Words that he is studying must be brought in for a Witness against many of his Hearers! with what an Heart must a Minister preach when he remembereth that all the Words that he is speaking must condemn many, if not most of his Hearers? Do we desire