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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
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What a woeful spectacle was that poor wretch possessed with the legion? would it not have pitied thine heart to have seen him among the tombs, cutting, and wounding of himself? Mark 5. 5. This is thy case, such is thy work. Every stroke is a thrust at thine heart. 1 Tim. 6. 10. Conscience indeed is now asleep; but when death and judgment shall bring thee to thy senses, then thou wilt feel the raging smart and anguish of every wound. The convinced sinner is a sensible instance of the miserable bondage of sin. Conscience flies upon him, and tells him what the end of these courses will be: and yet such a slave is he to his lusts, that on he must, though he see it will be his endless perdition: and when the temptation comes, lust gets the bit in its mouth, breaks all the cords of his vows and promises, and carries him headlong to his own destruction.
What a woful spectacle was that poor wretch possessed with the legion? would it not have pityed thine heart to have seen him among the tombs, cutting, and wounding of himself? Mark 5. 5. This is thy case, such is thy work. Every stroke is a thrust at thine heart. 1 Tim. 6. 10. Conscience indeed is now asleep; but when death and judgment shall bring thee to thy senses, then thou wilt feel the raging smart and anguish of every wound. The convinced sinner is a sensible instance of the miserable bondage of sin. Conscience flies upon him, and tells him what the end of these courses will be: and yet such a slave is he to his lusts, that on he must, though he see it will be his endless perdition: and when the temptation comes, lust gets the bit in its mouth, breaks all the cords of his vows and promises, and carries him headlong to his own destruction.
VI. The furnace of eternal vengeance is heated ready for thee. Isaiah 30. 33. Hell and destruction open their mouths upon thee, they gape for thee, they groan for thee, Isaiah 5. 14. waiting as it were with a greedy eye, as thou standest upon the brink, when thou wilt drop in. If the wrath of a man may be, as the roaring of a Lion,