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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.
Oh abuse unsufferable! to see a heaven-born soul abased to the filthiest drudgery: to see the glory of Gods creation, the chief of the ways of God, the Lord of the universe, lapping with the prodigal at the trow, or licking up with greediness the most loathsome vomit. Was it such a lamentation to see those that did ⟨p. 64⟩feed delicately, sit desolate in the streets? and the precious sons of Zion comparable to fine gold, to be esteemed as earthen pitchers? and those that were clothed in scarlet to embrace dunghills? Lim. 4. 2, 5. And is it not fearful much more, to see the only thing that hath immortality in this lower world, and carried the stamp of God, to become as a vessel wherein there is no pleasure? (which is but the modest expression of the vessel, men put to the most sordid use.) Oh indignity intolerable! Better thou wert dashed on a thousand pieces, than continue to be abused to so filthy a service.
Oh abuse unsufferable! to see a heaven-born soul abased to the filthiest drudgery: to see the glory of Gods creation, the chief of the wayes of God, the Lord of the universe, lapping with the prodigal at the trow, or licking up with greediness the most loathsome vomit. Was it such a lamentation to see those that did ⟨p. 64⟩feed delicately, sit desolate in the streets? and the precious sons of Sion comparable to fine gold, to be esteemed as earthen pitchers? and those that were clothed in scarlet to embrace dunghils? Lim. 4. 2, 5. And is it not fearful much more, to see the only thing that hath immortality in this lower world, and carried the stamp of God, to become as a vessel wherein there is no pleasure? (which is but the modest expression of the vessel, men put to the most sordid use.) Oh indignity intolerable! Better thou wert dashed on a thousand pieces, than continue to be abused to so filthy a service.
II. Not only man, but the whole visible creation is in vain, without this. Beloved, God hath made all the visible creatures in Heaven and earth for the service of man,