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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.
Mr. JOSEPH ALLEINE'S CALL TO THE UNCONVERTED.
Dearly Beloved, and longed for, I gladly acknowledge my self a debtor to you all, and am concerned, as I would be found a good steward of the household of God, to give to every one his portion. But the Physician is most solicitous for those Patients, whose case is most doubtful and hazardous, and the Fathers bowels are especially turned towards his dying child. The numbers of the unconverted souls among you, call for my most earnest compassions, and hasty diligence to pluck them out of the burning, Jud. 23. and therefore to these first I shall apply my self in these lines.
DEarly Beloved, and longed for, I gladly acknowledge my self a debtour to you all, and am concerned, as I would be found a good steward of the houshold of God, to give to every one his portion. But the Physician is most sollicitous for those Patients, whose case is most doubtful and hazardous, and the Fathers bowels are especially turned towards his dying child. The numbers of the unconverted souls among you, call for my most earnest compassions, and hasty diligence to pluck them out of the burning, Iud. 23. and therefore to these first I shall apply my self in these lines.
But whence shall I fetch my arguments, or how shall I choose my words? Lord, wherewith shall I woo them? whereby shall I win them? Oh that I could but tell! I would write unto them in tears, I would weep out every argument, I would empty my veins for ink, I would petition them on my knees; verily ⟨p. 2⟩(were I able) I would, (O how thankfully I would!) if they would be prevailed with to repent and turn.
But whence shall I fetch my arguments, or how shall I choose my words? Lord, wherewith shall I wooe them? whereby shall I win them? Oh that I could but tell! I would write unto them in tears, I would weep out every argument, I would empty my veins for ink, I would petition them on my knees; verily