A26682:427
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.
Oh! I am even lost and swallowed up in ⟨p. 190⟩the abundance of those arguments that I might suggest. If there be any point of wisdom in all the world, it is to repent and come in: if there be any thing righteous, any thing reasonable, this is it. If there be any thing in the world that may be called madness, and folly, any thing that may be counted sottish, absurd, brutish, unreasonable, it is this, to go on in thine unconverted estate. Let me beg thee, as thou wouldst not wilfully destroy thy self, to sit down, and weigh, besides what hath been said, these following Motives, and let conscience speak, if it be not reason, that thou shouldst repent & turn.
Oh! I am even lost and swallowed up in ⟨p. 190⟩the abundance of those arguments that I might suggest. If there be any point of wisdom in all the world, it is to repent and come in: if there be any thing righteous, any thing reasonable, this is it. If there be any thing in the world that may be called madness, and folly, any thing that may be counted sottish, absurd, bruitish, unreasonable, it is this, to go on in thine unconverted estate. Let me beg thee, as thou wouldst not wilfully destroy thy self, to sit down, and weigh, besides what hath been said, these following Motives, and let conscience speak, if it be not reason, that thou shouldst repent & turn.
1. The God that made thee doth most graciously invite thee.
First his most sweet and merciful nature doth invite thee, Oh the kindnesses of God, his working bowels, his tender mercies! They are infinitely above our thoughts, higher than Heaven, what can we do? deeper than hell, what can we know?