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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.
First, Sin. When a man is converted, he is for ever out with sin: yea with All sin, Psal. 119. 128. but most of all with his own sins, and especially with his bosom sin: Psal. 18. 23. Sin is now the But of his indignation; 2 Cor. 7. 11. he thirsts to bath his hands in the blood of his sins. His sins set abroach his sorrows. It is sin that pierces his and wounds him: he feels it like a thorn in his side; like a prick in his eyes: he groans and struggles under it, and not formally, but feelingly cries out, O wretched man! He is not impatient of any burden, so much as of his sin. Psal. 40. 12. If God should give his choice, he would choose any affliction, so he might be rid of sin. He feels it like the cutting gravel in his shoes, pricking, and paining him as he goes.
First, Sin. When a man is converted, he is for ever out with sin: yea with All sin, Psal. 119. 128. but most of all with his own sins, and especially with his bosom sin: Psal. 18. 23. Sin is now the But of his indignation; 2 Cor. 7. 11. he thirsts to bath his hands in the blood of his sins. His sins set abroach his sorrows. It is sin that pierces his and wounds him: he feels it like a thorn in his side; like a prick in his eyes: he groans and struggles under it, and not formally, but feelingly cries out, O wretched man! He is not impatient of any burden, so much as of his sin. Psal. 40. 12. If God should give his choice, he would choose any affliction, so he might be rid of sin. He feels it like the cutting gravel in his shooes, pricking, and paining him as he goes.