of his own free-will For the second God did that which belonged to him that is he gave man a perfect Law requiring him to continue in the Love of God and perfectly to obey him By the wilful breach of this Law man did not only forfeit his hopes of everlasting life but also turned his heart from God and fixed it on these lower fleshly things and hereby did blot out the spiritual Image of God from his soul. So that man did both fall short of the Glory of God which was his End and put himself out of the Way by which he should have attained it and this both as to the frame of his heart and of his life The holy Inclination and Love of his soul to God he lost and instead of it he contracted an Inclination and Love to the pleasing of his flesh or carnal-self by earthly things growing strange to God and acquainted with the creature And the course of his life was suited to the Bent and Inclination of his heart he lived to his carnal self and not to God he sought the creature for the pleasing of his flesh instead of seeking to please the Lord. With this Nature or Corrupt inclination we are all now born into the world For who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean Iob 14.4 As a Lyon hath a fierce and cruel nature before he doth devour and as an Adder hath a venemous nature before he sting so in our very infancy we have those sinful Natures or Inclinations before we think or speak or do amiss And hence springeth all the sin of our lives And not only so but when God hath of his mercy provided us a Remedy even the Lord Jesus Christ to be the Saviour of our souls and bring us back to God again we naturally love our present state and are â—oth to be brought out of it and therefore are set against the means of our Recovery and though custom have taught us to thank Christ for his good will yet carnal self perswadeth us to refuse his Remedies and to desire to be excused when we are commanded to take the Medicines which he offereth and are called to forsake all and follow him to God and Glory I pray you read over this leaf again and mark it for in these few words you have a true Description of our natural state and consequently of a wicked man For every man that is in this state of corrupted nature is a wicked man and in a state of death By this also you are prepared to understand what it is to be Converted to which end you must further know That the mercy of God not willing that man should perish in his sin provided a Remedy by causing his Son to take our Nature and being in one person God and man to become a Mediator between God and man and by dying for our sins on the Cross to ransom us from the curse of God and the power of the Devil and having thus Redeemed us the Father hath delivered us into his hands as his own Hereupon the Father and the Mediator do make a New Law and Covenant for man not like the first which gave life to none but the perfectly obedient and condemned man for every sin but Christ hath made a Law of Grace or a Promise of Pardon and Everlasting life to all that by true Repentance and by Faith in Christ are Converted unto God Like an Act of Oblivion which is made by a Prince to a company of Rebels on condition they will lay down arms and come in and be loyal subjects for the time to come But because the Lord knoweth that the heart of man is grown so wicked that for all this men will not accept of the Remedy if they be left to themselves therefore the Holy Ghost hath undertaken it as his office to inspire the Apostles and seal up the Scripture by Miracles and Wonders and to illuminate and convert the souls of the Elect. So that by this much you see that as there are three persons in the Trinity the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost so each of these persons have their several works which are eminently ascribed to them The Fathers works were to Create us to Rule us 〈◊〉 his â—ational creatures by the Law of Nature and Judge us thereby And in mercy to provide us a Redeemer when we were lost and to send his Son and accept his Ransom The works of the Son for us were these To Ransom and Redeem us by his Sufferings and Righteousness to give out the Promise or Law of Grace and Rule and Judge the world as their Redeemer on terms of Grace and to make intercession for us that the benefits of his death may be communicated and to send the Holy Ghost which the Father also doth by the Son The works of the Holy Ghost for us are these to indite the Holy Scriptures by inspiring and guiding the Prophets and Apostles and sealing the Word by his Miraculous gifts and works and the illuminating and exciting the ordinary Ministers of the Gospel and so enabling them and helping them to publish that Word and by the same word Illuminating and Converting the souls of men So that as you could not have been reasonable creatures if the Father had not Created you nor have had any access to God if the Son had not Redeemed you so neither can you have a part in Christ or be saved except the Holy Ghost do sanctifie you So that by this time you may see the several causes of this work The Father sendeth the Son the Son Redeemeth us and maketh the Promise of Grace the Holy Ghost inditeth and sealeth this Gospel the Apostles are the Secretaries of the Spirit to write it the Preachers of the Gospel do proclaim it and perswade men to obey it And the Holy Ghost doth make their preaching effectual by opening the hearts of men to entertain it And all this to repair the image of God upon the soul and to set the heart upon God again and take it off the creature and carnal self to which it is revolted and so to turn the current of the life into an heavenly course which before was earthly and all this by the entertainment of Christ by Faith who is the Physitian of the soul. By this which I have said you may see what it is to be Wicked and what it is to be Converted Which I think will be yet plainer to you if I describe them as consisting of their several parts and for the first a wicked man may be known by these three things First he is one who placeth his chief content on earth and loveth the creature more then God and his fleshly prosperity above the heavenly felicity He savoureth the things of the flesh but neither discerneth nor savoureth the things of the Spirit though he will say that Heaven is better then earth yet doth he not really so esteem it to himself If he might be
Doth he give us Sun and Moon and Stars the earth and all the creatures to attend us and serve us with their lives and virtues and yet doth he not care for our hearts or service This is as foolish as to say that he hath made all the world in vain and careth not for it now he hath made it 7. If he cared not for the frame of our hearts and lives he would not have sent his Son to Redeem us and to cleanse us from all iniquity and sanctifie us a peculiar people to himself Tit. 2.14 Surely the price that was paid for sinners and the wonderful design of God in our Redemption doth shew that he makes not light of sin and that he is wonderfully in love with holiness 8. If God did not regard our hearts and lives he would not have made it the office of his Ministers to call us daily to Repentance and an holy life Nor commanded them to make such a stir with sinners to win them unto God He would not have appointed all his Ordinances publick and private also to this end Doth God command all this ado for a thing that he regards not 9. Nor would he punish the world with Hell hereafter or so many dreadful judgements here as thousands feel if he cared not what they think or do Methinks men that are so often groaning under his rod should feel that he looks after their hearts and wayes 10. And how can the Holy Ghost be our Sanctifier if God be so indifferent whether we be clean or unclean Dare you think that the Holy Ghost doth take upon him a needless work 11. Methinks you might perceive even in the malice of the Tempter that God is holy and hateth iniquity and his Word is true that telleth us of the eternal punishment of sin This Scripture tells us of the Angels fall and that many of them are become Devils by their sin and are malicious enemies of mans salvation And do you not easily perceive it to be true How come they else to be such importunate Tempters of men which we feel alas by too much experience Or if this evidence be not palpable enough to convince the Infidel How come they to make so many bargains with Conjurers and Witches to draw them from God and Salvation as they have done How come they to appear in terrible shapes to so many as they have done and still upon designs that declare their own dejected base Condition and their enmity to God and man and their eager desire to engage men in a way of sin If any Infidel will not believe that really there have been Witches and Apparitions and consequently that there are Devils who are miserable and malicious spirits who by sin are cast out of the favour of God and would draw men into their miserable case let them come and reason the case with me and I shall quickly tell them of so many sure undenyable instances and give them so much proof of the truth of it as shall leave them nothing to say against it â—â—less they will still say We will not believe Yea so much as that I will not be beholden to the vilest Atheist or Infidel to believe it if he will not quite renounce his Reason but give it leave to see the Light 12. Lastly if yet you think that God the Soveraign Ruler of the world that is everywhere present and preserveth all doth care so little what men are or what they do whether they are holy or unholy obedient or disobedient to his Laws then methinks that you your selves and all the rest of your fellow-creatures should little care Two Questions therefore I must here propound to you 1. Do not you care what men say of you or do to you Are you contented that men slander you and abase you or set your houses or Towns on fire or destroy your cattle or wives and children and imprison wound or kill your selves If you will make a great matter of what men say or do against you can you be so mad for it is no better as to think that the Omnipotent Holy God should little regard what 's said or done against himself and against hâ—s servants and that by such silly worms as men that are his workmanship Did not selfishness make you blind and partial you would know that one sin against God deserves more punishment then ten thousand thousand times as much against such silly things as you Do you make no matter of difference between a bad servant and a good an obedient and a disobedient child a Son that would lay down his life for you and a Son that longs for your death that he may have your Lands between a faithful friend and a deadly enemy If you do not you are not men but something else in humane shape If you do then you are somewhat worse then men if yet you would have the Blessed God to make no great difference between those that love him above all the world and those that regard him not between the Holy and unholy soul. And 2. I would ask you Whether you would have the Rulers of the world to take no care what men say or do or would you not If not then you would have all the world turned loose and you would have every man that is poorer then you have leave to rob you and every man that hateth you have leave to beat you or to kill you and every man that liketh your house or lands or goods or cattle to have leave to take them from you and every man to defile your wives or daughters that hath a mind to it And so we should see whether it is that Infidelity leads men But if you like not this then you are most unreasonable if you would have Magistrates to be regardful of mens actions and not God If Magistrates must hang men for wronging you and the Eternal Majesty must not punish them for wronging him and breaking his Laws which is infinitely a greater matter As if you would have a Constable punish men and the King or Iudge to have no regard of it For Kings are under God as Constables are under Kings and a thousandfold lower The truth is wicked men are fallen so far from God to themselves that they are as gods to themselves in their own esteem and besides themselves they know no God and therefore any wrong that is done against them or any good that is done for them they would have regarded but the wrong and disobedience that is against God they would have nothing made of And they have such narrow blasphemous thoughts of God as if he were a finite creature like themselves that can be but in one place at once that makes them so blaspheme his Providence and think he minds not Good or Evil and will not reward the godly or punish the ungodly but â—ere like the Idols of the Heathen that have eyes and see not ears and hear not and hands without
read over this Book I would intreate you to go alone and ponder a little what you have read and bethink you as in the sight of God whether it be not true and do not neerly touch your souls and whether it be not time for you to look about you And also I intreate you that you will upon your knees beseech the Lord that he will open your eyes to understand the truth and turn your hearts to the Love of God and beg of him all that saving grace that you have so long neglected and follow it on from day to day till your hearts be changed And withall that you will go to your Pastors that are set over you to take care of the health and safety of your souls as Physitians do for the health of your bodies and desire them to direct you what course to take and acquaint them with your spiritual estate that you may have the benefit of their Advice and Ministerial help Or if you have not a faithful Pastor at home make use of some other in so great a need Thirdly When by Reading Consideration Prayer and Ministerial Advice you are once acquainted with your sin and misery with your Duty and Remedy delay not but presently forsake your sinful company and courses and turn to God and obey his Call Aâ— you love your souls take heed that you go not on against so loud a Call of God and against your own knowledge and consciences lest it go worse with you in the day of Iudgement then with Sodom and Gomorrah Enquire of God as a man that is willing to know the truth and not to be a wilful Câ—eater of his soul. Search the holy Scriptures daily and see whether these things be so or not try impartially whether it be safer to trust to Heaven or Earth and whether it be better follow God or man the Spirit or the flesh and better live in Holiness or sin and whether an unsanctified estate be safe for you to abide in one day longer And when you have found out which is best Resolve accordingly and make your choice without any more ado If you will be true to your own souls and do not love everlasting torments I beseech you as from the Lord that you will but take this reasonable advices O what happy Towns and Countreys and what a happy nation might we have if we could but perswade our neighbours to agree to such a necessary motion What joyful men would all faithful Ministers be if they could but see their people truly heavenly and holy This would be the Vnity the Peace the Safety the glory of our Churches the happiness of our neighbours and the comfort of our souls Then how comfortably should we preach Absolution and Peace to you and deliver the Sacraments which are the Seals of Peace to you And with what Love and Ioy might we live among you At your death-bed how boldly might we comfort and encourage your departing souls and at your Burial how comfortably might we leave you in the grave in expectation to meet your souls in heaven and to see your bodies raised to that glory But if still the most of you will go on in a careless ignorant fleshly wordly or unholy life and all our desires and labours cannot so far prevail as to keep you from the wilful damning of your selves we must then imitate our Lord who delighteth himself in those few that are his jewels and in the little Flock that shall receive the Kingdom when the most shall reap the misery which they sowed In nature excellent things are few The world hath not many Suns or Moons It s but a little of the earth that 's gold or silver Princes and Nobles are but a small part of the Sons of men And it is no great number that are Learned Iudicious or wise here in the world And therefore if the gate being strait and the way narrow there be but few that find salvation yet God will have his glory and pleasure in those few And when Christ shall come with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ his coming will to be glorified in his Saints and admired in all true believers 2 Thes. 1.7 8 9 10. And for the rest as God the Father vouchsafed to create them and God the Son disdained not to bear the penalty of their sins upon the cross and did not judge such suffering vain though he knew that by refusing the Sanctification of the Holy Ghost they would finally destroy themselves so we that are his Ministers though these be not gathered judge not our labour wholly lost see Isa 49 5. Reader I have done with thee when thou hast perused this Book but sin hath not yet done with thee even those that thou thoughtest had been forgotten long ago and Satan hath not yet done with thee though now he be out of sight and God hath not yet done with thee because thou wilt not be perswaded to have done with the deadly reigning sin I have written thee this perswasive as one that is going into another world where the things are seen that here I speak of and as one that knoweth thou must be shortly there thy self As ever thou wilt meet me with Comfort before the Lord that made us as ever thou wilt escape the everlasting plagues prepared for the final neglecters of salvation and for all that are not sanctified by the Holy Ghost and love not the communion of the Saints as members of the Holy Catholick Church and as ever thou hopest to see the face of Christ thy Iudge and of the Majesty of the Father with Peace and Comfort and to be received into glory when thou art turned naked out of this world I beseech thee I charge thee to hear and obey the Call of God and Resolvedly to Turn that thou maist Live But if thou Wilt not even when thou hast no true Reason for it but Because thou wilt not I summon thee to answer ' it before the Lord and require thee there to bear me witness that I gave thee warning and that thou wast not condemned for want of a Call to Turn and Live but because thou wouldst not believe it and obey it which also must be the Testimony of Thy serious Monitor Rich. Baxter Decemb. 11. 1657. The Contents A Preface to the Unsanctified exhorting them to turn and answering some Objections The text opened p. 1. to 9. Doct. 1. It is the unchangeable Law of God that wicked men must Turn or Die p. 9. Proved p. 11. Obj. God will not be so unmerciful as to Damn us Answered p. 14 15. The Use p. 22. Who are wicked men and what Conversion is and how we may know whether we are wicked or Converted p. 27. to p. 45. Applyed p. 45. to p. 70. Doct. 2. It is the Promise of God that the wicked shall live if they will
thee to Return 5. It is the voice of the gracious examples of the Godly When thou seest them live a heavenly life and fly from the sin which is thy delight this really Calls on thee to Turn 6. It is the voice of all the Works of God For they also are Gods books that teach thee this lesson by shewing thee his Greatness and Wisdom and Goodness and Calling thee to observe them and admire the Creator Psal. 19.1 2. The Heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work Day unto Day uttereth Speech night unto night sheweth Knowledge Every time the Sun riseth upon thee it really calleth thee to Turn as if it should say What do I travel and compass the world for but to declare to men the Glory of their Maker and to light them to do his work And do I still find thee doing the work of sin and sleeping out thy life in negligence Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light Ephes. 5.14 The night is spent the day is at hand it is now high time to awake out of sleep Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkeness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying but put ye on the Lord Iesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof Rom. 13.11 12 13 14. This Text was the means of Austins Coversion 7. It is the voice of every Mercy thou dost possess If thou couldst but hear and understand them they all cry out unto thee Turn Why doth the earth bear thee but to seek and serve the Lord why doth it afford thee its fruits but to serve him Why doth the air afford thee breath but to serve him Why do all creatures serve thee with their labours and their lives but that thou mightest serve the Lord of them and thee Why doth he give thee time and health and strength but for to serve him Why hast thou meat and drink and cloathes but for his service Hast thou any thing which thou hast not received And if thou didst receive them its reason thou shouldst bethink thee from whom and to what end and use thou didst receive them Didst thou never cry to him for help in thy distress and didst thou not then understand that it was thy part to Turn and serve him if he would deliver thee He hath done his part and spared thee yet longer and tryed thee another and another year and yet dost thou not Turn You know the Parable of the unfruitful fig-tree Luke 13.6 7 8 9. When the Lord had said Cut it down why cumbreth it the ground he was intreated to try it one year longer and then if it proved not fruitful to cut it down Christ himself there makes the application twice over ver 3. 5. Except ye Repent ye shall all likewise perish How many years hath God looked for the fruits of Love and Holiness from thee and hath found none and yet he hath spared thee How many a time by thy wilful ignorance and carelesness and disobedience hast thou provoked Justice to say Cut him down why cumbereth he the ground And yet mercy hath prevailed and Patience hath forborn the killing damning blow to this day If thou hadst the understanding of a man within thee thou wouldst know that all this calleth thee to Turn Dost thou think thou shalt still escaâ—e the Iudgement of God Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to Repentance but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thy self wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous Iudgement of God who will render to every man according to his deeds Rom. 2.3 4.5 6. 8. Moreover it is the voice of every affliction to call thee to make haste and Turn Sickness and pain cry Turn and poverty and loss of friends and every twig of the chastising rod cry Turn and yet wilt thou not hearken to the Call These have come near thee and made thee feel they have made thee groan and can they not make thee Turn 9. The very frame of thy Nature and being it self bespeaketh thy Return Why hast thou Reason but to Rule thy flesh and serve thy Lord Why hast thou an understanding soul but to learn and know his will and do it Why hast thou an heart within thee that can love and fear and desire but that thou shouldst fear him and love him and desire after him 10. Yea thine own engagements by promise to the Lord do call upon thee to Turn and serve him Thou hast bound thy self to him by a Baptismal Covenant and renounced the world the flesh and the Devil this thou hast confirmed by the profession of Christianity and renewed it at Sacraments and in times of affliction And wilt thou promise and vow and never perform and Turn to God Lay all these together now and see what should be the issue The holy Scripture calls upon thee to Turn the Ministers of Christ do call upon thee to Turn The Spirit cries Turn thy Conscience cries Turn the godly by perswasions and examples cry Turn the whole world and all the creatures therein that are presented to thy consideration cry Turn The patient forbearance of God cries Turn All the Mercies which thou receivest cry Turn The rod of Gods chastisements cries Turn Thy reason and the frame of thy nature bespeaks thy Turning and so do all thy Promises to God And yet art thou not resolved to Turn 3. Moreover poor hard hearted sinner Didst thou ever consider upon what terms thou standest all this while with him that calleth on thee for to Turn Thou art his own and owest him thy self and all thou hast and may he not Command his own Thou art his absolute servant and shouldst serve no other Master Thou standest at his Mercy and thy life is in his hand and he is resolved to save thee upon no other terms thou hadst many malicious spiritual enemies that would be glad if God would but forsake thee and let them alone with thee and leave thee to their will how quickly would they deal with thee in another manner And thou canst not be delivered from them but by Turning unto God Thou art fallen under his wrath by thy sin already and thou knowest not how long his patience will yet wait Perhaps this is the last year perhaps the last day his sword is even at thy heart while the word is in thine ear and if thou Turn not thou art a dead and undone man Were thy eyes but open to see where thou standest even upon the brink of hell and to see how many thousands are there already that did not turn thou wouldst see that its time to look about thee
and judgement and of the certainty and excellency of the Joys of Heaven and of the certainty and terrour of the torments of Hell and the Eternity of both and of the necessity of Conversion and an holy life Steep your hearts in such Considerations as these DIRECTION III. IF you will be Converted and Saved attend upon the word of God which is the ordinary means Read the Scripture or hear it read and other holy writings that do apply it constantly attend on the publike preaching of the Word As God will lighten the world by the Sun and not by himself alone without it So will he Convert and save men by his Ministers who are the Lights of the world Acts 26.17 18. Mat. 5.14 When he hath miraculously humbled Paul he sendeth him to Ananias Acts 9.10 and when he haâ—h sent an Angel to â—oâ—nelius it is but to bid him send for Peter who must tell him what he is to believe and do DIRECTION IV. BEtake your self to God in a course of earnest constaâ—t Prayer Confess and lament your former lives and beg his grace to illuminate and Convert you Beseech him to pardon what is past and to give you his Spirit and change your hearts and lives and lead you in his waies and save you from temptations And ply this work daily and be not weary of it DIRECTION V. PResently give over your known and wilâ—ul sins Make a stâ—nd and go that way no further Be drunk no more but avoid the place and occasion of it Cast away your lusts and sinful pleasures with detestation Curse and swear and rail no more and if you have wronged any restore as Zacheus did If you will commit again your old sins what blessing can you expect on the means for your Conversion DIRECTION VI. PResently if possible change your Company if it have hitherto been bad Not by forsaking your necessary Relations but your unnecessary sinful companions and joyn your selves with those that fear the Lord and enquire of them the way to heaven Acts 9.19 26. Psal. 15.4 DIRECTION VII DEliver up your selves to the Lord Iesus as the Physitian of your souls that he may pardon you by his blood and sanctifie you by his Spirit by his word and Ministers the instruments of the Spirit He is the way the truth and the life there is no coming to the Father but by him Iohn 14.6 Nor is there any other name under heaven by which you can be saved Acts 4.12 Study therefore his Person and Natures and what he hath done and suffered for you and what he is to you and what he will be and how he is fitted to the full supply of all your necessities DIRECTION VIII IF you mean indeed to Turn and Live Do it speedily without delay If you be not willing to Turn to day you be not willing to do it at all Remember you are all this while in your blood under the guilt of many thousand sins and under Gods wrath and you stand at the very brink of hell there is but a step between you and death And this is not a case for a man that is well in his wits to be quiet in Up therefore presently and fly as for your lives as you would be gone out of your house if it were all on fire over your head O if you did but know what continual danger you live in and what daily unspeakable loss you do sustain and whaâ— a safer and sweeter life you might live you would not stand trâ—flâ—ng but presently turn Multitudes miscarry that wilfulâ—y deâ—ay when they are convinced that it must be done Your lives are short and uncertain and what a case are you in if you die before you throuâ—hly turn You have staid too long already and wronged God too long sin getteth strength and rooting while you delay Your Conversion will grow more hard and doubtful You have much to do and therefore put not all off to the last lest God forsake you and give you up to your selves and then you are undone for ever DIRECTION IX IF you will Turn and Live do it unreservedly absolutely and universally Think not to capitulate with Christ and devide your heart betwixt him and the world and to part with some sins and keep the rest and to let go that which your flesh can spare This is but self-deluding you must in heart and resolution forsake all that you have or else you cannot be his Disciples Luke 14.26 33. If you will not take God and Heaven for your portion and lay all below at the feet of Christ but you must needs also have your good things here and have an earthly portion and God and Glory is not enough for you it is in vain to dream of salvation on these terms For it will not be If you seem never so Religious if yet it be but a Carnâ—l Religiousness and the fleshes prosperity or pleasure or safety be still exâ—epted in your devotedness to God this is as certain a way to death as open prophaness though it be more plausible DIRECTION X. IF you will Turn and Live do it Resolvedly and stand not still deliberating as if it were a doubtful case Stand not wavering as if you were yet uncertain whether God or the flesh be the better Master or whether Heaven or Hell be the better End or whether sin or holiness be the better way But away with your former lusts and presently habitually fixedly Resolve Be not one day of one mind and the next of another but be at a point with all the world and Resolvedly give up your selves and all you have to God Now while you are reading or hearing this Resolve Before you sleep another night Resolve Before you stir from the place Resolve Before Satan have time to take you off Resolve You never Turn indeed till you do Resolve and that with a firm unchangeable Resolution So much for the Directions AND now I have done my part in this work that you may Turn at the Call of God and Live What will become of it I cannot tell I have cast the seed at Gods command but it is not in my power to give the increase I can go no further with my message I cannot bring it to your hearts not make it work I cannot do your parts for your to entertain it and consider of it Nor I cannot do Gods part by opening your heartâ— to cause you to entertain it Nor can I shew you Heaven or Hell to your eye-sight nor give you new and tender hearts If I knew what more to do for your Conversion I hope I should do it But 〈◊〉 thou that art the gracious Father of Spirits that hast sworn thâ—n delightest not in the death of the wicked but rather that they Turn and Live deny not thy blessiâ—g to theâ—e Perswasions and Directions and suffer not thine enemies to triumph in thy sight and the great deceiver of souls to prevail against the Son thy Spirit and thy Word O pitty poor Vnconverted sinners that have not hearts to pitty or help themselves Command the blind to see and the deaf to hear and the dead to live and let not sin and death be able to resist thee Awaken the secure Resolve the uâ—resolved Confirm the wavering and let the eyes of sinners that read these lines be next employed in weeping over their sins and bring them to themselves and to thy Son before their sin have brought them to perdition If thâ—u say but the word these poor endeavours shall prosper to the winning of many a soul to their everlasting Ioy and thine everlasting glory Amen Finitur 1656. Decemb. 31. Mr. R. Rowly of Sâ—rew bury upon Aâ—ham-bridge