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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.
And if you will help us, give over striving against God, and Conscience, give over fighting against Christ and his Spirit: take part no more with the world and the flesh which in your Baptism you renounced: set your hearts to the message which we bring you. Allow it your man-like sober thoughts; search the Scripture, and see whether these things which we speak be so or not. We offer you nothing but what we have resolvedly chosen our selves: and that after the most serious deliberation that we can make. We have many a time looked round about us, to know what is the happiness of man: And had we found better for our selves, we had offered better to you. If the world ⟨image 8⟩would have served our turns, it should have served yours also; and we would not have troubled you with the talk of another world: But it will not; I am sure it will not serve your turns, to make you happy, nor shall you long make that sorry self-deceiving shift with it as now you do.
But if you will not think of these things; if you will not use the reason of men, alas what can we do to save your souls? O pity them Lord, that they may pity themselves. Have mercy on them, that they may have some more mercy on themselves. Help them that they may help themselves and us. If you still refuse, will not your loss be more than ours: If we lose our labour (which to our selves we shall not;) if we lose our hopes of your salvation: what is this to your everlasting loss of salvation it self? And what is our suffering for your sakes, in comparison of your endless sufferings.
But if you will not think of these things; if you will not use the reason of men, alas what can we do to save your souls? O pitty them Lord, that they may pitty themselves. Have mercy on them, that they may have some more mercy on themselves. Help them that they may help themselves and us. If you still refuse, will not your loss be more than ours: If we lose our labour (which to our selves we shall not;) if we lose our hopes of your salvation: what is this to your everlasting loss of salvation it self? And what is our suffering for your sakes, in comparison of your endless sufferings.