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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.
V. Thy raging lusts do miserably enslave thee. While unconverted, thou art a very servant of sin: it reigns over thee, and holds thee under its dominion, till thou art brought within the bond of Gods covenant. John 8. 34, 36. Tit. 3. 3. Rom. 6. 12, 14. Rom. 6. 16, 17. Now there's no such Tyrant as sin. Oh the filthy and fearful work, that it doth engage its servants in! Would it not pierce a mans heart to see a company of poor Creatures drudging and toiling, and all to carry together faggots and fuel for their own burning? Why, this is the employment of sins drudges. Even while they bless themselves in their unrighteous gains, while they sing and swill in pleasures, they are but treasuring up wrath and vengeance for their eternal burning; they are but l•ying in Powder and ⟨p. 125⟩bullets, and adding to the pile of Tophet, and flinging in oil to make the flames rage the fiercer. Who would serve such a master, whose work is drudgery, and whose wages is death? Rom. 6. 23.
V. Thy raging lusts do miserably enslave thee. While unconverted, thou art a very servant of sin: it reigns over thee, and holds thee under its dominion, till thou art brought within the bond of Gods covenant. Iohn 8. 34, 36. Tit. 3. 3. Rom. 6. 12, 14. Rom. 6. 16, 17. Now there's no such Tyrant as sin. Oh the filthy and fearful work, that it doth engage its servants in! Would it not pierce a mans heart to see a company of poor Creatures drudging and toiling, and all to carry together faggots and fuel for their own burning? Why, this is the imployment of sins drudges. Even while they bless themselves in their unrighteous gains, while they sing and swill in pleasures, they are but treasuring up wrath and vengeance for their erernal burning; they are but lying in Powder and