The Sincere Convert

1. Consider who shall be thy Judge:§1 why, mercy, pity, goodness it self, even Jesus Christ that many times held out his bowers of compassion towards thee. A child of God may say, yonder is my brother, friend, husband. But thou mayest say, yonder is mine enemy. He may say at that day, yonder is he that shed his blood to save me; thou mayest say, yonder he• comes whose heart I have pierced with my sins, whose blood I have despised. They may say, O come Lord Jesus, and cover me under thy wings: But thou shalt then cry out, O Rocks fall upon me and hide me from the face of the Lamb.

1. Consider who shall be thy Iudge:§1 why, mercy, pitty, goodnesse it selfe, even Iesus Chr•st that many times held out his bowers of compassion towards thee. A child of God may say, yonder is my brother, friend, husband. But thou mayest say, yonder is mine enemy. He may say at that day, yonder is he that shed his blood to save me; thou mayest say, yonder he• comes whose heart I have pierced with my sinnes, whose blood I have despised. They may say, O come Lord Iesus, and cover me under thy wings: But thou shalt then cry out, O Rockes fall upon mee and hide mee from the face of the Lambe.

2. Consider the manner of his coming,§2 2. Thes• 1. 7. He shall come in flaming fire, the heavens shall be on a flame, the elements shall melt like ••alding lead upon thee: when a house is on fire at midnight in a Town, what a fearful cry is there made? When all the world shall cry fire, fire, & run up and down for shelter to hide themselves, but cannot find it, but say, O ⟨p. 86⟩