"Whether it be your baptism, or whatever else you pretend, I tell you from the living God, that if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"Men may pray long, and fast often, and hear gladly, and be very forward in the service of God, though costly and expensive, and yet be strangers to conversion." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"There is no outward service but a hypocrite may do it, even to the giving of all his goods to feed the poor, and his body to be burned." An Alarm To The Unconverted
"It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"Others think that because they have given up their riotous ways, and are broken off from evil company or some particular lust, and are reduced to sobriety and civility, they are now real converts. They forget that there is a vast difference between being sanctified and civilized. They forget that many seek to enter into the kingdom of heaven, and are not far from it, and arrive to the almost of Christianity, and yet fall short at last." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"Had you not better, sinner, let the Word convince you now in time, and let go your false and self-deluding hopes, than have death open your eyes too late, and find yourself in the fires of Hell before you are aware?... Study your own hearts; do not rest till God has made thorough work with you; for you must be recreated as another person, or else you are lost." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength. It is a resurrection from the dead, a new creation, a work of absolute omnipotence... This is a supernatural work." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"God finds nothing in man to turn his heart, but enough to turn his stomach. He finds enough to provoke his loathing, but nothing to excite his love." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"Never was an infant born into the world with that difficulty which Christ endured for us. All the pains that he suffered on the cross were our birth pains. He is made sanctification to us. He sanctified himself, that is, set apart himself as a sacrifice, that we might be sanctified. We are sanctified through the offering of his body once for all. It is nothing, then, but the merit and intercession of Christ, that prevails with God to bestow on us converting grace. If you are a new creature, you know to whom you owe: to Christ's pangs and prayers." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"You that are unconverted, read the Word with diligence; flock to where it is powerfully preached. Pray for the coming of the Spirit in the Word. Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees. The sermon does not prosper because it is not watered by prayers and tears, nor covered by meditation." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"Christian, do not forget the end of your calling. Let your light shine, let your lamp burn, let your fruits be good and many and in season. Let all your designs fall in with God's that he may be magnified in you." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election. If you cannot yet prove it, set upon a present and thorough turning. Whatever God's purposes be, which are secret, I am sure his promises are plain... Do not stand still disputing about your election, but set to repenting and believing. Cry to to God for converting grace. Revealed things belong to you; in these busy yourself. It is just, as one well said, that they who will not feed on the plain food of the Word should be choked with the bones." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down, and erects a new structure... The sincere Christian is quite a new fabric, from the foundation to the top-stone. He is a new man, a new creature; all things are become new. Conversion is a deep work, a heart work. It makes a new man in a new world. It extends to the whole man, to the mind, to the members, to the motions of the whole life." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"A hypocrite may come to yield a general assent that God is the chief good; indeed, the wiser heathens, some few of them, have at least stumbled upon this. But no hypocrite comes so far as to look upon God as the most desirable and suitable good to him, and thereupon to acquiesce in him." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"The sincere convert is not one man at church and another at home. He is not a saint on his knees and a cheat in his shop. He will not tithe mint and cummin, and neglect mercy and judgment, and the weightier matters of the law. He does not pretend piety and neglect morality. But he turns from all his sins and keeps all God's statues, though not perfectly, except in desire and endeavor, yet sincerely, not allowing himself in the breach of any. Now he delights in the Word, and sets himself to prayer, and opens his hand and draws out his soul to the hungry. He breaks off his sins by righteousness, and his iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. He has a good conscience willing in all things to live honestly, and to keep himself without offence towards God and men." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"When a man is converted, he is forever at enmity with sin; yes, he is at enmity with all sin, but most of all with his own sins, and especially with his bosom sin. Sin is now the object of his indignation. His sin swells his sorrows. It is sin that pierces him and wounds him; he feels it like a thorn in his side, like a prick in his eyes... He is not impatient of any burden so much as of his sin. If God should give him his choice, he would choose any affliction so that he might be rid of sin." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"When a man is savingly changed, he is deeply convinced not only of the danger, but also of the defilement of sin. Then how earnest is he with God to be purified! He loathes himself for his sins. He runs to Christ, and casts himself into the fountain set open for sin and for uncleanness. If he fall, what a stir is there to get all clean again! He has no rest till he flees to the Word, and washes and rubs and rinses in the infinite fountain, labouring to cleanse himself from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit." An Alarm To The Unconverted

"Have you crucified your flesh with its affections and lusts and not only confessed, but forsaken your sins. Are you done with all sin in your fervent desires, and the ordinary practice of every deliberate and willful sin in your life? If not, you are still not converted." An Alarm To The Unconverted