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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.
'Tis nothing then without his own bowels, but the merit and intercession of Christ, that prevails with God to bestow upon us converting ⟨p. 23⟩grace. If thou art a new creature, thou knowest to whom thou owest it, to Christ's pangs and prayers. Hence the natural affection of a believer to Christ. The foal doth not more naturally run after the dam, nor the suckling to the dugs, than a believer to Jesus Christ. And whither else shouldst thou go? If any in the World can show that for thy heart, that Christ can, let them carry it. Doth Satan put in, doth the world court thee, doth sin sue for thy heart? Why, were these crucified for thee? 1 Cor. 1. 13. O Christian, love and serve thy Lord while thou hast a being. Do not even the Publicans love those that love them? And show kindness to those that are kind to them? Matth. 5. 46, 47.
'Tis nothing then without his own bowels, but the merit and intercession of Christ, that prevails with God to bestow upon us converting ⟨p. 23⟩grace. If thou art a new creature, thou knowest to whom thou owest it, to Christ's pangs and prayers. Hence the natural affection of a believer to Christ. The foal doth not more naturally run after the dam, nor the suckling to the dugs, than a believer to Jesus Christ. And whither else shouldst thou go? If any in the World can shew that for thy heart, that Christ can, let them carry it. Doth Satan put in, doth the world court thee, doth sin sue for thy heart? Why, were these crucified for thee? 1 Cor. 1. 13. O Christian, love and serve thy Lord while thou hast a being. Do not even the Publicans love those that love them? And shew kindness to those that are kind to them? Matth. 5. 46, 47.