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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.
So then, it is a work above mans power. We are born, not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man; but of God. Joh. 1. 13. Never think thou canst convert thy self. If ever thou wouldst be savingly converted, thou must despair of doing it in thine own strength. Jer. 31. 18. It is a resurrection from the dead, Rev. 20. 5. Eph. 2. 1. a new creation, Gal. 6. 15. Eph. 2. 10. a work of absolute omnipotency: Eph. 1. 19. Are not these out of the reach of humane power? If thou hast no more, than thou hadst by thy first birth, a good nature, a meek and chaste temper, &c. thou art a very stranger to true Conversion. This is a supernatural work.
So then, it is a work above mans power. We are born, not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man; but of God. Ioh. 1. 13. Never think thou canst convert thy self. If ever thou wouldst be savingly converted, thou must despair of doing it in thine own strength. Ier. 31. 18. It is a resurrection from the dead, Rev. 20. 5. Eph. 2. 1. a new creation, Gal. 6. 15. Eph. 2. 10. a work of absolute omnipotency: Eph. 1. 19. Are not these out of the reach of humane power? If thou hast no more, than thou hadst by thy first birth, a good nature, a meek and chast temper, &c. thou art a very stranger to true Conversion. This is a supernatural work.