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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.
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.
Hear then, O sinner, and as ever thou wouldst be converted and saved, embrace this following counsel.
Direct. I. Set it down with thy self as an undoubted truth, that it is impossible for thee ever to get to Heaven, in this thine unconverted estate. Can any other but Christ save thee? And he tells thee he will never do it, except thou be regenerated and converted. Mat. 18. 3. John. 3. 3. Doth not he keep the keys of Heaven? And canst thou get in without his leave, as thou must, if ever thou comest thither in thy natural