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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.
And since thou hast appointed the Lord Jesus Christ,1 the only means of coming unto thee,2 I do here upon the bended knees of my soul accept of him as the only new and living way, by which sinners may have access to thee, and do here solemnly ⟨p. 167⟩join my self in a marriage-Covenant to him.
- 1The mediate Terms are either principal, or less principal.
- 2The principal is Christ the Mediator, who must thus be embraced.The principal is Christ the Mediatour, who must thus be embraced.
O blessed Jesus, I come to thee hungry and hardly bestead, poor and wretched, and miserable, and blind, and naked, a most loathsome polluted wretch, a guilty condemned Malefactor, unworthy for ever to wash the feet of the servants of my Lord, much more to be solemnly married to the King of Glory: but sith such is thine unparalleled love, I do here with all my power accept thee, and do take thee for my Head and Husband, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, for all times and conditions, to love, and honour, and obey thee before all others, and this to the death. I embrace thee in all thine Offices: I renounce mine own worthiness, and do here avow thee to be the Lord my Righteousness: I renounce mine own wisdom, and do here take thee for mine only Guide: I renounce mine own will, and take thy will for my Law.
O blessed Jesus, I come to thee hungry and hardly bestead, poor and wretched, and miserable, and blind, and naked, a most loathsome polluted wretch, a guilty condemned Malefactor, unworthy for ever to wash the feet of the servants of my Lord, much more to be solemnly married to the King of Glory: but sith such is thine unparallel'd love, I do here with all my power accept thee, and do take thee for my Head and Husband, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, for all times and conditions, to love, and honour, and obey thee before all others, and this to the death. I embrace thee in all thine Offices: I renounce mine own worthiness, and do here avow thee to be the Lord my Righteousness: I renounce mine own wisdom, and do here take thee for mine only Guide: I renounce mine own will, and take thy will for my Law.