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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. 16. Doth not the Holy State of Heaven require Holiness in all that shall possess it? Can an unholy soul there see and love and praise and delight in God for ever, and in the Holy Society and employment of the Saints? Rev. 21. 27. Is he not liker a Mahometan than a Christian, that looketh for a sensual and unholy Heaven?
Qu. 17. What is the difference between the Church and the world? Is not the Church a holy Society of Regenerate souls? Yea the Church visible is those only that in Baptism vow Holiness and profess it. Look these hypocrites ⟨image 16⟩in the face, and see whether they do not blush, when they repeat in their Creed I believe in the Holy Ghost, I believe the Holy Catholic Church, and the Communion of Saints, who shall have the forgiveness of sins, and life everlasting. Ask them whether they mean Holy Adulterers, holy worldlings, holy perjured persons? Ask them whether they mean a Communion of Saints in a Tavern, in a play-house, in a gaming house, in a whore-house, or a jesting, canting stage-play Communion? If the Church be holy, be holy if you will be of the Church: If it be a Communion of Saints, make it not a Communion of swine, and make not Saints and their Communion seem odious either for their infirmities, or their crossness to your carnal interests or conceits.
Qu. 17. What is the difference between the Church and the world? Is not the Church a holy Society of Regenerate souls? Yea the Church visible is those only that in Baptism vow Holiness and profess it. Look these hypocrites ⟨image 16⟩in the face, and see whether they do not blush, when they repeat in their Creed I believe in the Holy Ghost, I believe the Holy Catholick Church, and the Communion of Saints, who shall have the forgiveness of sins, and life everlasting. Ask them whether they mean Holy Adulterers, holy worldlings, holy perjured persons? Ask them whether they mean a Communion of Saints in a Tavern, in a play-house, in a gaming house, in a whore-house, or a jesting, canting stage-play Communion? If the Church be holy, be holy if you will be of the Church: If it be a Communion of Saints, make it not a Communion of swine, and make not Saints and their Communion seem odious either for their infirmities, or their crossness to your carnal interests or conceits.