A26682:104
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.
4. It consists not in an external conformity to the rules of Piety. 'Tis too manifest, men may have a form of godliness, without the power. 2 Tim. 3. 5. Men may pray long, Matth. 23. 14. and fast often, Luke 18. 12. and hear gladly, Matth. 13. 20. ⟨p. 15⟩and be very forward in the service of God, though costly, and expensive, Isaiah. 1. 11. and yet be strangers to Conversion. They must have more to plead for themselves, than that they keep their Church, and give alms, and make use of prayer, to prove themselves sound converts. No outward service but an hypocrite may do it; even to the giving all his goods to the poor, and his members to the fire. 1 Cor. 13. 3.
4. It consists not in an external conformity to the rules of Piety. 'Tis too manifest, men may have a form of godliness, without the power. 2 Tim. 3. 5. Men may pray long, Matth. 23. 14. and fast often, Luke 18. 12. and hear gladly, Matth. 13. 20. ⟨p. 15⟩and be very forward in the service of God, though costly, and expensive, Esay. 1. 11. and yet be strangers to Conversion. They must have more to plead for themselves, than that they keep their Church, and give alms, and make use of prayer, to prove themselves sound converts. No outward service but an hypocrite may do it; even to the giving all his goods to the poor, and his members to the fire.