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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.
Again, thou must give up thy whole interest to him. If there be any thing, that thou keepest back from Christ, it will be thine undoing. Luke 14. 33. Unless thou wilt forsake all (in preparation and resolution of thy heart) thou canst not be his disciple. Thou must hate Father and Mother, yea and thine own life also in comparison of him, and as far as it stands in competition with him. Mat. 10. 37. Luke 14. 26, 27, 28, &c. In a word, thou must give him thy self, and all that thou hast, without reservation, or else thou […] have no part in him.
Again, thou must give up thy whole interest to him. If there be any thing, that thou keepest back from Christ, it will be thine undoing. Luke 14. 33. Unless thou wilt forsake all (in preparation and resolution of thy heart) thou canst not be his disciple. Thou must hate Father and Mother, yea and thine own life also in comparison of him, and as far as it stands in competition with him. Mat. 10. 37. Luke 14. 26, 27, 28, &c. In a word, thou must give him thy self, and all that thou hast, without reservation, or else thou 〈…〉 have no part in him.
Dir. IX. Make choice of the Laws of Christ as the rule of thy words, thoughts and actions. Psal. 119. 30. This is the true Converts choice. But here remember these three rules. 1. Thou must choose them all. There is no coming to Heaven by a partial obedience. Read