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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.
Behold, O ye sons of men, the Lord Jesus hath thrown open the prisons, and now he cometh to you (as the Magistrates once to them Act. 16. 39) and beseecheth you to come out. If it were from a Palace, or a Paradise that ⟨p. 208⟩Christ did call you, it were no wonder if you were unwilling (and yet how easily was Adam •olled from hence?) but it is from your prison, sirs, from your chains, from the dungeon, from the darkness that he calleth, you; Isaiah 42. 6, 7. and yet will you not come? He calleth you unto liberty, Gal. 5. 13. and yet will you not hearken? His Yoke is easy, his Laws are liberty, his service freedom: Mat. 11. 30. James 1. 25. 1. Cor. 7. 22. and (whatever prejudices you have against his ways) if a God may be believed, you shall find them all pleasure and peace, and shall taste sweetness and joy•unutterable, and take infinite content and felicity in them. Prov. 3. 17. Psal. 119. 165. 1 Pet. 1. 8. Psal. 119. 103, 111.
Behold, O ye sons of men, the Lord Jesus hath thrown open the prisons, and now he cometh to you (as the Magistrates once to them Act. 16. 39) and beseecheth you to come out. If it were from a Palace, or a Paradise that ⟨p. 208⟩