Impenitent sinners warned of their misery and summoned to judgment. Delivered in two sermons:…

And now let me direct my speech to her, but let all sinners in the Congregation take warning by it, and not look upon themselves unconcerned. Let me then say unto you, that your own sin hath found you out, and God hath made you a Spectacle to the world, of his righteous indignation. Your life is forfeited as to man; you are made a Curse, and may not be suffered to live, but must be Cut off, lest otherwise the Judgments of God should fall upon the land. But still there is hope in Israel concerning this thing, with regard to your poor immortal Soul; though you must flee to the pit, and no man may stay you; yet Sovereign Grace can say of you, as, Job 33▪24▪ Deliver her from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom: only know and be assured, that if ever you be Saved, you must be Converted; and in order to your being Converted, you must be Humbled. And for your help, I have five things to advise you about; and do you look up unto God, that you may be enabled solemnly to entertain them.

1. Think what an egregious fool you have been; if ever God show you mercy, he will imprint this thought on your heart very deep. Remember then, you were born and brought up in a Land of Uprightness, in the Valley of Vision, where Christ and Salvation by him hath been published. You were admitted in your Childhood to partake in the privileges of the Gospel Covenant; & have been by Baptism Sealed to the Service of God, and devoted to be for him and no other. You have doubtless had many private warnings and counsels given you by your Parents, and Kindred, and Godly Neighbours. You have sat under the clear Dispensations of the Word of God, in which you have been many a time over, told of your sinful courses, and the certain destruction that they would lead you to, if you held on in them, and been solemnly advised to break off your sins by repentance; and all arguments have been used with you to persuade you of the necessity and happiness of your so doing. You have seen and heard of the falls of others, and of the misery which they brought themselves into thereby. You have been your self left by God to fall into scandalous sins, and warned thereby to beware and not to go on, lest some worse thing should befall you; and yet how have you despised instruction, & scorned reproofs, and more desperately resolved in your own ways and courses, until the holy God was provoked to leave you up to your self, and withhold his restraining grace from you, and so suffer