A26682:89
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.
Let the blind Samaritans worship they know not what; Joh. 4. 22. Let the heathen Athenians superscribe their Altar to the unknown God; Act. 17. 23. Let the guileful Papists commend the mother of destruction, Hos. 4. 6. for the mother of devotion: they that know mans constitution, and the nature of the reasonable souls operation, cannot but know, that the understanding having the Empire in the soul, he that will go rationally to work, must labour to let in the light here. Ignorantis non est consensus. And therefore that you may not mistake me, I shall show you what I mean by the conversion I persuade you to endeavour after.
LEt the blind Samaritans worship they know not what; Ioh. 4. 22. Let the heathen Athenians superscribe their Altar to the unknown God; Act. 17. 23. Let the guileful Papists commend the mother of destruction, Hos. 4. 6. for the mother of devotion: they that know mans constitution, and the nature of the reasonable souls operation, cannot but know, that the understanding having the Empire in the soul, he that will go rationally to work, must labour to let in the light here. Ignorantis non est consensus. And therefore that you may not mistake me, I shall shew you what I mean by the conversion I perswade you to endeavour after.
It is storied that when Jupiter let down the golden chaplets from Heaven, all of them but one were stolen: Whereupon (left they should lose a relic of so great esteem) they made five others so like it, that if any were so wickedly minded, as to steal that also, they should not be able to discern which was it. And truly my beloved, the Devil hath made many counterfeits of this conversion, and cheats one with this, and another with that; and such a craft and artifice he hath, in this mystery of deceits, that (if it were possible) he would deceive the very Elect. Now that I may cure the damnable mistakes of some, who think they