A26682:94
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.
But if this were so, then all that were baptized (in their infancy) must necessarily be saved: because the promise of pardon and salvation is made to conversion and regeneration. Act. 3. 19. 1 Pet. 1. 3, 4. Matth. 19. 28. Our Calling, Sanctification, (as to the beginnings of it) or conversion, (which are but the same thing, under different conceptions and expressions;) is but a middle link in the golden chain, fastened to election at the one end, and glorification at the other. Rom. 8. 30. 2 Thes. 2. 13. 1 Pet. 1. 2. The silver cord may not be broken, nor the connection between sanctification and salvation, between grace and glory, impiously violated. Matth. 5. 8. If we are indeed begotten again, it is to an inheritance incorruptible reserved in Heaven for us, and the divine power is engaged to keep us for it 1 Pet. 1. 5. And if the very regenerate may perish at last in their sins, we will no more say, That he that is born ⟨p. 10⟩of God, his seed remaineth in him, and that he cannot sin, 1 John. 3. 9. i. e. unto death, nor that it is impossible to deceive the very elect. Matth. 24. 24.
But if this were so, then all that were baptized (in their infancy) must necessarily be saved: because the promise of pardon and salvation is made to conversion and regeneration. Act. 3. 19.