An Admonition to Unconverted Sinners; In a Serious Treatise ... to Which Are Added, Prayers for Families (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1793 edition. Excerpt: ...to your making your escape. Were you shut up under your present misery without remedy, it were but mercy (as one speaks) to let1 you alone, that you might take in that little poor comfort that you are capable of in this world; but you may yet be happy, if you do not wilsully resuse the means of your recovery: Behold, I hold open the door to you; arise, take your flight: I set the way of lise before you, walk in it, and " you shall live, and not die," Dtut. xxx. 19. Jer. vi. 16. It grieves me to think you should be your own murderers, and throw yourselves headlong, when God and ihan cries out to you, as Peter in another case to his master, " O spare thyself." Hear then, O sinner -and as ever thou would'st be converted and saved, embrace the following counsel. Direct. I. " Set it down with thyself as an'un" doubted truth, that it is impossible for thee ever to get to heaven in this thy unconverted slate." Can any Other but Christ save thee? ard he tells thee he never will do it, except thou be regenerated and converted, Matt, xviii. 3. j'tbn ui. 3. Doth he not keep the keys of heaven 1 and canst thou get in without his leave? As thou must, if ever thou come thither in thy natural condition, without a sound and thorough renovation Direct. If. Labour to get a thorough sight " and lively sense and seeling of thy sins." Till men are weary and heavy-laden, and pricked at the heart, and quite sick of sin, they will not come unto Christ, in his way, for ease and cure: Nor to purpose inquire, " What shall we do?" Matt. xi. 28. A3, ii. 37 Matt.hi. 12., They must set themselves down for dead men before they will come unto Christ that they may have lise, J"1-'" v. 4. Labour...