THE Solemn Warnings of the Dead: OR, AN ADMONITION -TO. UNCONVERTED SINNERS. BY Mr. JOSEPH ALLEINE.. AND, A CALL TO THE UNCONVERTED. BY Mr. RICHARD BAXTER. HE BEING, DEAD YET SPEAKETH, Heb. xi. 4. NEW-YORK: Printed by JOHN C. TOTTEN, for the METHODIST Book-Room. READER, You are here prefented with abook, which was written many years before the name of Methodifm was known in the world; which it may be proper to remind you of, in order to remove any unreasonable prejudice arifing from that quarter. What I would recommend to you is, to read it with attention, examination, and prayer, as the most effectual method you can take to render it a bleffing to your own foul. The author feems to have made ufe of every possible argument to win upon your ingenuity, to awaken confcience, and to direct you in the way everlasting. I charge you, as in the prefence of the living God, nor to do your part, and give it a faithful reading: I beg of you, by every endearing motive of love and affection to your precious and immortal foul, that you will look upon this book as calculated to promote your prefent and everlasting happiness; and I beg of God that he would be pleafed fo to accompany your reading of it with his divine and heavenly grace, as to afford you matter of thanksgiving, gratitude, and praise to bis holy name, for ever and ever. Man, by nature and practice, is a finner before God; a charge of guilt is faftened upon him: this, in words, he readily acknowledges; but being blinded with prejudice, and having wrong conceptions both of the nature of God and fin he flatters himself that all will be well at laf, and that a merciful God will not finally condemn him; this lulls him |