A26682:337
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.
Just such is the wilful destruction of ungodly ⟨p. 138⟩men. The God that made them beseecheth them, and crieth out to them, as Paul to the distracted Jailer, when about to murder himself, Do thy self no harm. The Ministers of Christ forewarn them and follow them, and fain would hold them back. But alas! No expostulations, nor obtestations will prevail; but men will hurl themselves into perdition, while pity it self looketh on.
Just such is the willful destruction of ungodly ⟨p. 138⟩men. The God that made them beseecheth them, and cryeth out to them, as Paul to the distracted Jaylor, when about to murder himself, Do thy self no harm. The Ministers of Christ forewarn them and follow them, and fain would hold them back. But alas! No expostulations, nor obtestations will prevail; but men will hurl themselves into perdition, while pity it self looketh on.
What shall I say? would it not grieve a person of any humanity, if in the time of a reigning plague he should have a receipt (as one well) that would infallibly cure all the Country, and recover the most hopeless patients, and yet his friends and neighbours should dye by the hundreds about him because they would not use it? Men and brethren, though you carry the certain symptoms of death in your faces, yet I have a receipt that will cure you all, that will cure infallibly. Follow but these few directions, and if you do not then win Heaven, I will be content to lose it.
What shall I say? would it not grieve a person of any humanity, if in the time of a reigning plague he should have a receipt (as one well) that would infallibly cure all the Countrey, and recover the most hopeless patients, and yet his friends and neighbours should dye by the hundreds about him because they would not use it? Men and brethren, though you carry the certain symptoms of death in your faces, yet I have a receipt that will cure you all, that will cure infallibly. Follow but these few directions, and if you do not then win Heaven, I will be content to lose it.