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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.
I. Thy being is in vain. Is it not pity thou shouldst be good for nothing, an unprofitable burden of the earth, a wart, or wen in the body of the universe? Thus thou art, while unconverted, for thou canst not answer the end of thy being. Is it not for the divine pleasure thou art and wert created? Rev. 4. 11. Did not he make thee for himself? Prov. 16. 4. Art thou a man, and hast thou reason? Why then bethink thy self, why, and whence thy being is. Behold Gods workmanship in thy body, and ask thy self; To what end did God rear this fabric? Consider the noble faculties of thy Heaven-born soul: to what end did God bestow these excellencies? To no other, than that than shouldst please thy self, and gratify thy senses? Did God send men like the swallows, into the world, only to gather a few sticks, and dirt, and build their nests, and breed up their young, and then away? The very heathens could see further than this. Art thou so fearfully and wonderfully made, Psal. 139. 14. and dost thou not yet think with thy self, surely it was for some noble and raised end?
I. Thy being is in vain. Is it not pity thou shouldst be good for nothing, an unprofitable burden of the earth, a wart, or wen in the body of the universe? Thus thou art, while unconverted, for thou canst not answer the end of thy being. Is it not for the divine pleasure thou art and wert created? Rev. 4. 11. Did not he make thee for himself? Prov. 16. 4. Art thou a man, and hast thou reason? Why then bethink thy self, why, and whence thy being is. Behold Gods workmanship in thy body, and ask thy self; To what end did God rear this fabrick? Consider the noble faculties of thy Heaven-born soul: to what end did God bestow these excellencies? To no other, than that than shouldst please thy self, and gratifie thy senses? Did God send men like the swallows, into the world, •only to gather a few sticks, and dirt, and build their nests, and breed up their young, and then away? The very heathens could see further than this. Art thou so fearfully and wonderfully made,