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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.
O Most dreadful God, for the Passion of thy Son, I beseech thee accept of thy poor Prodigal now prostrating himself at thy Door: I have fallen from thee by mine iniquity, and am by nature a son of Death, and a thousandfold more the child of Hell by my wicked Practice: But of thine infinite Grace thou hast promised Mercy to me in Christ, if I will but turn to Thee with all my Heart:1 Therefore upon the Call of Thy Gospel, I am now come in, and throwing down my weapons, submit my self to thy Mercy.
- 1The Terms of our Communion, are either from which, or to which.
And because thou requirest,1 as the Condition of my Peace with Thee, that I should put away mine Idols, and be at defiance with all thine Enemies, which I acknowledge I have wickedly sided with against Thee, I here from the bottom ⟨p. 165⟩of my heart renounce them all, firmly Covenanting with Thee, not to allow my self in any known Sin, but Conscientiously to use all the means that I know thou hast prescribed, for the Death and utter Destruction of all my Corruptions. And whereas I have formerly inordinately and idolatrously let out my affections upon the World, I do here resign my Heart to Thee that madest it, humbly protesting before thy Glorious Majesty, that it is the firm resolution of my Heart, and that I do unfeignedly desire Grace from Thee, that when thou shalt call me hereunto, I may practise this my resolution through thy Assistance, to forsake all that is dear unto me in this world, rather than to turn from thee to the ways of sin; and that I will watch against all its Temptations, whether of Prosperity, or Adversity, lest they should withdraw my Heart from thee: beseeching thee also to help me against the Temptations of Satan, to whose wicked Suggestions I resolve by thy Grace never to yield my self a Servant. And because my own righteousness is but menstruous rags, I renounce all confidence therein, and acknowledge that I am of my self a hopeless, helpless, undone