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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.
No, if thou wilt but say the word, he shall be breathless for me. His poor beast would say, Lord, must I carry him upon his wicked designs? No, I will break his bones, I will end his days rather, if I may have but leave from thee. A wicked man the earth groans under him, and hell groans for him, till death satisfies both, and unburdens the earth, and stops the mouth of hell with him. While the Lord of Hosts is against thee, be sure the Hosts of the Lord are against thee, and all the creatures as it were up in arms, till upon a mans conversion, the controversy being taken up between God and him, he makes a covenant of peace with the creatures for him. Job 5. 22, 23, 24. Hos. 2. 18, 19, 20.
No, if thou wilt but say the word, he shall be breathless for me. His poor beast would say, Lord, must I carry him upon his wicked designs? No, I will break his bones, I will end his dayes rather, if I may have but leave from thee. A wicked man the earth groans under him, and hell groans for him, till death satisfies both, and unburdens the earth, and stops the mouth of hell with him. While the Lord of Hosts is against thee, be sure the Hosts of the Lord are against thee, and all the creatures as it were up in arms, till upon a mans conversion, the controversie being taken up between God and him, he makes a covenant of peace with the creatures for him. Iob 5. 22, 23, 24. Hos. 2. 18, 19, 20.
III. The roaring Lion hath his full power upon thee. 1 Pet. 5. 8. Thou art fast in the paw of that Lion, that is greedy to devour, in the snare of the devil, led captive by him at his will. 2 Tim. 2. 26. This is the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience,