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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.
Here again you shall find the unsoundness of many professors, that take themselves for good Christians. They are partial in the law, Mal. 2. 9. and take up with the cheap and easy duties of religion; but they go not through with the work. They are as a cake not turned, half roasted, and half raw. It may be you shall have them exact in their words, punctual in their dealings, but then they do not exercise themselves unto godliness; and for examining themselves, and governing their hearts, to this they are strangers. You shall have them duly at the Church, but follow them to their families and there you shall see little but the world minded: or if they have a road of family duties, follow them to their closets, and there you shall find their souls are little looked after. It may be they seem otherwise religious, but bridle not their tongues, and so all their religion is in vain: James 1. 26. It may be they come up to closet and family prayer; but follow them to their shops, and there you shall find them in a trade of lying, or some covert and cleanly way of deceit. Thus the hypocri•e goes not ⟨p. 39⟩throughout in the course of his obedience.
Here again you shall find the unsoundness of many professors, that take themselves for good Christians. They are partial in the law, Mal. 2. 9. and take up with the cheap and easie duties of religion; but they go not thorow with the work. They are as a cake not turned, half roasted, and half raw. It may be you shall have them exact in their words, punctual in their dealings, but then they do not exercise themselves unto godliness; and for examining themselves, and governing their hearts, to this they are strangers. You shall have them duly at the Church, but follow them to their families and there you shall see little but the world minded: or if they have a road of family duties, follow them to their closets, and there you shall find their souls are little looked after. It may be they seem otherwise religious, but bridle not their tongues, and so all their religion is in vain: Iames 1. 26