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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.
Qu. 14. Ask them why they believe, and were baptized into the Holy Ghost, and whether a man can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, that is not born of the Spirit as well as of Water, John 3. 3, 5, 6. and that is not converted, and begins not the world as it were anew, in a teachable, tractable newness of life, like a little child? Matth. 18. 3. And whether it be not a certain truth, that ⟨image 15⟩If any man have not the spirit of Christ, the same is none of his, Rom. 8. 9.
Qu. 14. Ask them why they believe, and were baptized into the Holy Ghost, and whether a man can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, that is not born of the Spirit as well as of Water, Iohn 3. 3, 5, 6. and that is not converted, and begins not the world as it were anew, in a teachable, tractable newness of life, like a little child? Matth. 18. 3. And whether it be not a certain truth, that ⟨image 15⟩If any man have not the spirit of Christ, the same is none of his, Rom. 8. 9.
Qu. 15. Ask them why Christ gave the world so many warnings of the damnableness of the Pharisees hypocrisy, if Hypocritical Christians may be saved. And what were these Pharisees? They were the Masters of the Jewish Church: The Rabbis that must have high places, high titles, and ceremonies, formal garments, and must be reverenced of all: That gave God lip-service without the heart, and made void his commands, and worshipped him in vain, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men, and strictly tithed Mint and Cummin, while love, mercy and Justice were past by: Who worshipped God with abundance of ceremonies, and built the Tombs, and garnished the Sepulchres of the Saints; while they killed and persecuted those that did imitate them, and hated the living Saints, and honoured the dead. They were the bitterest enemies and murderers of Christ, on pretence that he was a blasphemer, and a seditious enemy to Caesar and the common peace, and one that spake against the Temple: They were the greatest enemies of the Apostles, and silencers of