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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.
It is no small part of thy misery, that thou art without God. Eph. 2. 12. How doth Micah run crying after the Danites, You have taken away my gods, and what have I more? Judges 18. 23, 24. Oh what a mourning then must thou lift up, that art without God, that canst lay no claim to him, without daring usurpation! Thou must say of God, as Sheba of David; We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. 2 Sam. 20. 1. How pitiful and piercing a moan is that of Saul, in his extremity; The Philistines are upon me, and God is departed from me? 1 Sam. 28. 15. Sinners, what will you do in the day of your visitation? whither will you flee for help? where will you leave your glory? Isaiah 10. 3. What will you do when the Philistines are upon you? when the world shall take its eternal leave of you, when you must bid your friends, houses, lands, Farewell for evermore? What will you do then, I say, that have never a God to go to? Will you call on him, will you cry to him for help? alas he will not own you; Prov. 1. 28, 29. he will not take any knowledge of you, but send you packing, with an I never knew you. Mat. 7. 23. They that know what 'tis to have a God to go to, a God to live upon, they know a little what a fearful misery it is, to be without God. This made that holy man cry out, Let me have a God, or nothing. Let me know him and his will, and what will please •im, and how I may come to enjoy him, or would I had never had an understanding to know any thing, &c.
It is no small part of thy misery, that thou art without God. Eph. 2. 12. How doth Micah run crying after the Danites, You have taken away my gods, and what have I more? Iudges 18. 23, 24. Oh what a mourning then must thou lift up, that art without God, that canst lay no claim to him, without daring usurpation! Thou must say of God, as Sheba of David; We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Iesse.