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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.
We will begin with the negative.
1. It is not the taking on us the profession of Christianity. Doubtless Christianity is more than a name. If we will hear Paul, it lies not in word, but in power. 1 Cor. 4. 20. If to cease to be Jews and Pagans, and to put on the Christian profession had been true conversion, (as this is all, that some would have to be understood by it) who better Christians than they of Sardis and Laodicea? These were all Christians by profession, and had a name to live, but because they had but a name, are condemned by Christ, and threatened to be spewed out, Rev. 3. 1, 16. Are there not many that name the name of the Lord Jesus, that yet depart not from iniquity? 2 Tim. 2. 19. and profess they know God, but in works deny him? Tit. 1. 16. And will God receive these for true converts, because turned to the Christian religion? What, converts from sin, when yet they do live in •in! 'Tis a visible contradiction. Surely if the lamp of profession would have served the turn, the foolish virgins had never been shut out. Matt. 25. 3, 12. We find not only professors but preachers of Christ, and wonder-workers turned off, because •yil workers. Matth. 7. 22, 23.
1. It is not the taking on us the profession of Christianity. Doubtless Christianity is more than a name. If we will hear Paul, it lies not in word, but in power.