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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.
Showing the miseries of the unconverted.
Shewing the miseries of the unconverted.
SO unspeakably dreadful is the case of every unconverted soul, that I have sometimes thought, if we could but convince men, that they are yet unregenerate, the work were upon the matter done. But I sadly experience, that such a spirit of sloth and slumber (Rom. 11. 8. Mat. 13. 15.) possesses the unsanctified, that though they be convinced; that they are yet unconverted; yet they oft-times carelessly sit still: and what through the avocation of sensual pleasures, or hurry of worldly business, or noise and clamour of earthly cares, and lusts, and affections, Luke 8. 14. the voice of conscience is drowned, and men go no farther than some cold wishes, and general purposes of repenting and amending. Act. 24. 25.
SO unspeakably dreadful is the case of every unconverted soul, that I have sometimes thought, if we could but convince men, that they are yet unregenerate, the work were upon the matter done. But I sadly experience, that such a spirit of sloth and slumber (Rom. 11. 8. Mat. 13. 15.) possesses the unsanctified, that though they be convinced; that they are yet unconverted; yet they oft-times carelesly sit still: and what through the avocation of sensual pleasures, or hurry of worldly business, or noise and clamour of earthly cares, and lusts, and affections, Luke 8. 14. the voice of conscience is drowned, and men go no farther than some cold wishes, and general purposes of repenting and amending.