The works of George Swinnock, M.A

1. It is powerful for Conviction; It sets mens sins before their eyes, and makes them behold their ugliness and deformity, whether they will or no; It tells the sinner as Elisha concerning the Syrian King, to the King of Israel, what he doth and saith in his bed-chamber, in the retiring room of his heart; It makes the spirit of the stoutest sinner to tre•ble, as the leaves with the wind, and though he strives to put off his quaking fits by some humane cordials, yet he finds his soul-Ague still continuing upon him. Sturdy Murderers of Christ spring in trembling, and an earthly Felix quakes under the power of this word; This voice of the Lord is powerful, it •hakes the Cedars of Lebanon. The batteries of the word have shaken the senseless conscience, and shattered the flinty h•art in pieces.

1. It is powerful for Conviction; It sets mens sins before their eyes, and makes them behold their ugliness and deformity, whether they will or no; It tells the sinner as Elisha concerning the Syrian King, to the King of Israel, what he doth and saith in his bed-•hamber, in the retiring room of his heart; It makes the spirit of the stoutest sinner to tre•ble, as the leaves with the wind, and though he strives to put off his quaking fits by some humane cordials, yet he finds his soul-Ague still continuing upon him. Sturdy Murderers of Christ spring in trembling, and an earthly Felix quakes under the power of this word; This voice of the Lord is powerful, it •hakes the Cedars of Lebanon. The batteries of the word have shaken the sensless conscience, and shattered the flinty h•art in peices.

2. It is powerful for conversion; It is able to change the nature, and turn an heart of stone, into an heart of flesh; It hath many a time enlightened dark minds to see the things which they never saw, enlivened dead souls, and enabled them to stand up from the dead. The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul; It hath dispossessed the strong man, cast him out of his strong holds, wherein he had reigned many years, and subdued the soul to another Lord and Sovereign. What hath been said of God, may be said of the Word in the hand of the Spirit; Who ever resisted its will? How powerful is that word which can make