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An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners
An alarm to unconverted sinners, in a serious treatise ... whereunto are annexed Divers practical cases of conscience judiciously resolved / by Joseph Alleine, late preacher of the Gospel at Taunton in Somerset-shire.An alarme to unconverted sinners, in a serious treatise ... whereunto are annexed Divers practical cases of conscience judiciously resolved / by Joseph Alleine, late preacher of the Gospel at Taunton in Somerset-shire.
London: printed by E.T. and R.H., 1672
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And as we have such a sight as this by Faith to make us pity you, so have we so much taste of the goodness of God, the sweetness of his ways, and the happiness of believers, as must needs make us wish that you had but once tried the same delights, which would turn the pleasures of sin into detestation. God knoweth that we desire nothing more for our selves, than the Perfection and Eternity of this holiness and happiness which we believe and taste. And should we not desire the same for you?
And as we have such a sight as this by Faith to make us pity you, so have we so much tast of the goodness of God, the sweetness of his wayes, and the happiness of believers, as must needs make us wish that you had but once tryed the same delights, which would turn the pleasures of sin into detestation. God knoweth that we desire nothing more for our selves, than the Perfection and Eternity of this holiness and happiness which we believe and tast. And should we not desire the same for you?
And being thus moved with necessary pity, we ask of God, what he would have us to do for your salvation. And he hath told us in Scripture, that the ⟨image 4⟩preaching of his Gospel, to acquaint you plainly with the truth, and earnestly and frequently entreat you to turn from the flesh and world to God by Jesus Christ, is the means with which his grace is ready to concur for your salvation, when obstinate resistance causeth not the Holy Spirit to forsake the sinner and leave him to himself, to follow his own Counsels, Lusts and Wills.
And being thus moved with necessary pitty, we ask of God, what he would have us to do for your salvation. And he hath told us in Scripture, that the ⟨image 4⟩preaching of his Gospel, to acquaint you plainly with the truth, and earnestly and frequently intreat you to turn from the flesh and world to God by Jesus Christ, is the means with which his grace is ready to concurr for your salvation, when obstinate resistance causeth not the Holy Spirit to forsake the sinner and leave him to himself, to follow his own Counsels, Lusts and Wills.