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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.
The sound Convert is heartily engaged against sin. He wrestles with it, the wars against it. He is too often foiled, but he never yields the cause, nor lays down the weapons; but he will up, and to it again, while he hath breath in his body. He will never give quiet possession; he will make no peace; he will give no quarter; he falls upon it, and fires upon it, and is still disquieting of it with continual alarms. He can forgive his other enemies; he can pity them, and pray for them: Act. 7. 60. but here he is implacable, here he is set upon revenge: he hunteth, as it were, for the precious life; his eye shall not pity, his hand shall not spare, though it be a right hand, or a right eye: Be it a gainful sin, most delightful to his nature, a support to his esteem with carnal friends; yet he will rather ⟨p. 41⟩throw his gain down the kennel, see his credit fall, or the flower of pleasure wither in his hand, than he will allow himself in any known way of sin. Luke 19. 8. He will grant no indulgence, he will give no toleration; but he draws upon sin where ever he meets it, and frowns upon it with this unwelcome salute, Have I found thee, O mine enemy!
The sound Convert is heartily engaged against sin. He wrestles with it, the wars against it. He is too often foiled, but he never yields the cause, nor lays down the weapons; but he will up, and to it again, while he hath breath in his body. He will never give quiet possession; he will make no peace; he will give no quarter; he falls upon it, and fires upon it, and is still disquieting of it with continual alarms. He can forgive his other enemies; he can pity them, and pray for them: Act. 7. 60. but here he is implacable, here he is set upon revenge: he hunteth, as it were, for the precious life; his eye shall not pity, his hand shall not spare, though it be a right hand, or a right eye: Be it a gainful sin, most delightful to his nature, a support to his este•m with carnal friends; yet he will rather ⟨p. 41⟩throw his gain down the kennel, see his credit fall, or the flower of pleasure wither in his hand, than he will allow himself in any known way of sin.