SIX AWAKENING QUESTIONS TO UNCONVERTED SINNERS: Which the Author adviseth them daily to put to their Souls.  
LONDON, Printed in the Year 1694.   

SIX AWAKENING QUESTIONS TO Unconverted SINNERS.  

The First Question.  
WHat State did my Soul come into the World in? Was it not in a State of Death? Ephes. 2. 1. A State of Wrath? Verse 3. Sirs, Awake, and bethink yourselves where you are, and whither you are going. While you are in your Natural, Unconverted, Unbelieving State, all your sins are unpardoned, and the Wrath of God abideth on you, Acts 3. 19. Joh. 3. 36. Suppose you saw a poor creature hanging over a burning fiery Furnace, by nothing but a twine thread, like to break every moment; would not your hearts shake for such a one? Sirs, it is your very case; you hang over the Infernal Burnings by nothing but the small thread of your lives, which you know not but it may crack the next moment, and then where are you? Is this a case for you to go on merrily and contentedly in?   

The second Question.  
WH●t Condition is my Soul now in? Am I changed and renewed by Conversion, or am I not? Speak, Conscience; hath this Man ▪ this Woman, this Child been soundly and savingly changed, both in Heart and Life? Where are your evidences? Can you show the marks of the Lord Jesus upon your Souls? Let your Conscience answer: Where was the place? What was the means? When was the time that thy soul was thoroughly renewed? At least if you cannot show the time, place, or means, can you prove any thing? Can you say with him[ one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, I now see.] Sirs, be not deceived, I tell you, whatever you do, nothing will avail you to Salvation, except you be new Creatures, Gal. 6. 15.   

The Third Question.  
WHat if I should lose my Soul? What fair Work should I make of it then? This is very possible, Mat. 16. 26. Yea, it is the case of the most: There are but few, few of the Children of men that do escape safe to Heaven, Mat. 7. 14. Sirs, beware of your danger, and fear lest a promise being left of entering into Rest, any of you should at last come short of it, Heb. 4. 1. Suppose a man were to travail through some perilous Wood or Wilderness, having but one Jewel in all the World, in which his All was bound up, and should see some stand on one hand, and some on the other, and hear one company in this place, and another in that, cry out under the hands of some cruel Robbers: Oh! in what fear would this traveller go lest he should lose this Jewel, and be robbed of all at once! why, thou art the man: This Traveller is thyself, this Jewel is thy Soul ▪ This Wilderness or Wood, is this World thou art to travail through; swarms of sins, Legions of Devils, a whole world of temptations; these are the Robbers that lye in wait for thy Soul: and if all that these can do can keep thee out of Heaven, thou shalt never come there. Oh! what if thy Pride, or Worldliness, thy delays and triflings in Religion, should at last betray thy Soul into the Robbers hands? Other losses may be repaired; but thy Soul being once lost, God is lost, Christ is lost, Heaven, all lost for evermore.   

The Fourth Question.  
WHat do I do for my Soul? What have I a Soul, an immortal Soul to care for, &c. and look no better after it, nor bestow no more of my time, nor pains upon it, no more of my thoughts about it? When Augustus the Emperour saw the Outlandish Women carrying Apes, and such kind of strange Creatures in the Streets, in their Arms, he asked, What! have the Women in these Countries no Children? so it may be said of many among us, that are early and late at their worldly business, but let the care of Religion lye by neglected, What have these men no Souls? Why man, hast thou a Soul, and yet dost so little in thy Closet, so little in thy Family from day to day for it? what meanest thou, O Sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, that thou perish not, Jonah 1. 6. What will become of thy Soul, if thou lookest to it only at this careless rate?   

The Fifth Question.  
WHat if God should this night require thy S●ul? Where would Death land thee? Luke 12. 19, 20. There was one that promised many merry days, and years, as it is like thou dost, but that same night God called for his Soul. Sirs, are you in your postures? Are you fit to die? O dare not to live in such a case, nor in that course, in which you would not dare to die.   

The Sixth Question.  
WHat a happy case were I in, if I had but secured my Soul? Oh if this were but once done, how sweetly mightest thou live? Then thou mightest eat thy Bread, and drink thy Wine with a merry heart, when assured that God accepteth thee and thy work ▪ Eccles. 9. 7. Then thou mightest lye down in peace, rise up in peace, go out, &c. in peace; then thou mightest look death in the face, thou mightest look dangers in the face, yea, look Devils in the face, and never be afraid. O Sirs! if there be any Ensurance-Office for Souls in all the world, one would think you should be seeking to it.   
FINIS.