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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.
Sinner, wilt thou not yet give up thy vain hope of being saved in this condition? Saith Bildad, Shall, the earth be forsaken for thee? or the rocks removed out of their place? Job. 18. 4. May not I much more reason so with thee? Shall the Laws of Heaven be reversed for thee? Shall the everlasting foundations be overturned for thee? Shall Christ put out the eye of his Fathers omniscience, or shorten the arm of his eternal power for thee? Shall divine justice be violated for thee? Or the brightness of the glory of his holiness be blemished for thee? Oh the impossibility, absurdity, blasphemy, that is in such a confidence! To think Christ will ever save thee in this condition, is to make thy Saviour to become a sinner, and to do more wrong to the infinite Majesty, than all the wicked on earth, or devils in hell ever did, or could. And yet wilt thou not give up such a blasphemous hope?
Sinner, wilt thou not yet give up thy vain hope of being saved in this condition? Saith Bildad, Shall, the earth be forsaken for thee? or the rocks removed out of their place? Iob. 18. 4. May not I much more reason so with thee? Shall the Laws of Heaven be reversed for thee? Shall the everlasting foundations be overturned for thee? Shall Christ put out the eye of his Fathers omnisciency, or shorten the arm of his eternal power for thee? Shall divine justice be violated for thee? Or the brightness of the glory of his holiness be blemished for thee? Oh the impossibility, absurdity, blasphemy, that is in such a confidence! To think Christ will ever save thee in this condition, is to make thy Saviour to become a sinner, and to do more wrong to the infinite Majesty, than all the wicked on earth, or devils in hell ever did, or could. And yet wilt thou not give up such a blasphemous hope?
II. Against his word. We need not say, Who shall ascend into Heaven to bring down Christ from above? Or who shall descend into the deep to bring up Christ from beneath? The word is nigh us. ⟨p. 78⟩