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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.
READER,
How well were it if there were no more unconverted ones among us, than those to whom this is directed? Unconverted persons how many are there, but how few unconverted Readers? especially of such Books as this before thee? A Play or a Romance better suits the lusts, and therefore must have more of the eye of such; what will cherish the evil ⟨image 20⟩heart is only grateful, not what will change it.
HOw well were it if there were no more unconverted ones among us, than those to whom this is directed? Vnconverted persons how many are there, but how few unconverted Readers? especially of such Books as this before thee? A Play or a Romance better suits the lusts, and therefore must have more of the eye of such; what will cherish the evil ⟨image 20⟩heart is only grateful, not what will change it.
How many are there to whom this is directed, who will not know, that they are the men? and how little hope is there that this excellent Treatise should reach its end, with those who apprehend not themselves concerned in it? Art not thou one of them? Art thou a Convert, or art thou not yet in thy sins? What is sin? What is Conversion? It may be, thou canst tell me neither, and yet a Convert thou sayest, thou art. But to what purpose is it then like to be, for the servant of God to treat with thee about this matter? Let him bid thee believe, thou art a be• •ever already; let him bid thee repent and turn to the Lord, that work thou say•• is not now o do. What can there be said to this man, that's like to