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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.
Now here you shall have the hypocrite halting He speaks it may be like an Angel, but he hath a covetous eye, or the gain of unrighteousness in his hand. Or the hand is white, but his heart is full of rottenness, Mat. 13. 27. full of unmortified cares, a very oven of lust, the shop of pride, the seat of malice. It may be with Nebuchadnezzar's image, he hath a golden head, a great deal of knowledge: but he hath feet of clay, his affections are worldly, he minds earthly things, and his way and walk are sensual, and carnal: you may trace him in his secret haunts, and his footsteps will be found in some by-paths of sin. The work is not throughout with him.
Now here you shall have the hypocrite halting He speaks it may be like an Angel, but he hath a covetous eye, or the gain of unrighteousness in his hand. Or the hand is white, but his heart is full of rottennes, Mat. 13. 27. full of unmortified cares, a very oven of lust, the shop of pride, the seat of malice. It may be with Nebuchadnezzar's image, he hath a golden head, a great deal of knowledge: but he hath feet of clay, his affections are worldly, he minds earthly things, and his way and walk are sensual, and carnal: you may trace him in his secret haunts, and his footsteps will be found in some by-paths of sin. The work is not thorowout with him.
3. Throughout the motions, or the life, and practice. The new man takes a new course. Eph. 2. 2, 3. His Conversation is in Heaven. Phi. 3. 20. No sooner doth Christ call by effectual grace, but he straight way becomes a follower of him. Matth. 4. 20. When God hath given the new heart and writ his law in his mind, he forth with walks in his statutes and keeps his judgments,