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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 unsound closes by the halves with Christ: he is all for the salvation of Christ, but he is not for sanctification: he is for the privileges, but appreciates not the person of Christ. He divides the offices, and benefits of Christ. This is an error in the foundation. Whoso loveth life, let him beware here. 'Tis an undoing mistake, of which you have been often warned, and yet none more common. Jesus is a sweet name, but men love not the Lord Jesus in sincerity. Eph. 6. 24. They will not have him, as God offers, To be a Prince and a Saviour. Act. 5. 31. They divide what God hath joined, the King, and the Priest. Yea they will not accept the salvation of Christ, as he intends it; they divide here. Every mans vote is for salvation from suffering; but they desire not to be saved from sinning. They would have their lives saved; but withal they would have their lusts saved. Yea many divide ⟨p. 52⟩here again; they would be content to have some of their sins destroyed; but they cannot leave the lap of Delilah, or divorce the beloved Herodias. They cannot be cruel to the right eye, or right hand: the Lord must pardon them in this thing. 2 Kings 5. 18. Oh be infinitely tender here: your souls lie upon it. The sound Convert takes a whole Christ, and takes him for all intents and purposes, without exceptions, without limitations, without reserves. He is willing to have Christ, upon his terms, upon any terms. He is willing of the dominion of Christ, as well as deliverance by Christ, he saith with Paul, Lord what wilt thou have me to do? Act. 9. 6. Any thing Lord: He sends the blank for Christ to set down his own conditions. Act. 2. 37. Act. 16. 30.
The unsound closes by the halves with Christ: he is all for the salvation of Christ, but he is not for sanctification: he is for the priviledges, but appretiates not the person of Christ. He divides the offices, and benefits of Christ. This is an error in the foundation. Whoso loveth life, let him beware here. 'Tis an undoing mistake, of which you have been often warned, and yet none more common. Jesus is a sweet name, but men love not the Lord Jesus in sincerity.