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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.
Before Conversion he had light thoughts of sin: He cherished it in his bosom, as Uriah his lamb: he nourished it up, and it grew up together with him; it did eat as it were of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter: but when God opens his eyes by Conversion, he throws it away with abhorrence; Isaiah 30. ⟨p. 40⟩22. as a man would a loathsome toad, which in the dark he had hugged fast in his bosom, and thought it had been some pretty and harmless bird. When a man is savingly changed, he is not only deeply convinced of the danger, but defilement of sin: and O how earnest is he with God to be purified? He loathes himself for his sins. Ezek 36. 31. He runs to Christ, and casts himself into the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness. Zech. 13. 1. If he fall, what a stir is there to get all clean again? He flies to the word, and washes, and rubs, and wrinses, labouring to cleanse himself from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit: he abhors his once beloved sin, Psal. 18. 23. as a cleanly nature doth the trow, and mire, wherein he s•es the swine delight.
Before Conversion he had light thoughts of sin: He cherished it in his bosom, as Uriah his lamb: he nourished it up, and it grew up together with him; it did eat as it were of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter: but when God opens his eyes by Conversion, he throws it away with abhorrence; Esay 30. ⟨p. 40⟩22. as a man would a loathsome toad, which in the dark he had hugged fast in his bosom, and thought it had been some pretty and harmless bird. When a man is savingly changed, he is not only deeply convinced of the danger, but defilement of sin: and O how earnest is he with God to be purified? He loaths himself for his sins. Ezek 36. 31. He runs to Christ, and casts himself into the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness. Zech. 13. 1. If he fall, what a stir is there to get all clean again? He flies to the word, and washes, and rubs, and wrinses, labouring to cleanse himself from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit: he abhorrs his once beloved sin,