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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.
but how wilt thou hold out, or hold up, when God shall cast thee into a bed of torments, Rev. 2. 22. and make thee to lie down in sorrows? Isaiah 50. 11. When roarings and blasphemy shall be thine only music, and the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, shall be thine only drink? Rev. 14. 10. When thou shalt draw in flames for thy breath, and the horrid stench of sulphur shall be thine only perfume? In a word, when the smoke of thy torment shall ascend for ever and ever, and thou shalt have no rest night nor day, no rest in thy conscience, no ease in thy bones, but thou shalt be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach for evermore? Jer. 42. 18.
but how wilt thou hold out, or hold up, when God shall cast thee into a bed of torments, Rev. 2. 22. and make thee to lie down in sorrows? Esay 50. 11. When roarings and blasphemy shall be thine only musick, and the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, shall be thine only drink? Rev. 14. 10. When thou shalt draw in flames for thy breath, and the horrid stench of sulphur shall be thine only perfume? In a word, when the smoak of thy torment shall ascend for ever and ever, and thou shalt have no rest night nor day, no rest in thy conscience, no ease in thy bones, but thou shalt be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach for evermore? Ier. 42. 18.
Oh sinner, stop here; and consider. If thou art a man and not a senseless block, consider. Bethink thy self where thou standest: why upon the very brim of this furnace. As the Lord liveth and thy soul liveth, there is but a step between thee and this.