Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…

Judge in your own selves; is this the seeking, knocking, striving, fighting, running, wrestling, that the Scripture every where requires, as necessary to all that would be saved: but especially necessary at such a day of rebuke as this is? O quicken your selves, call up all your powers, and put you every man his strength to the rope. Cry mightily as Nineveh did. Humble your selves greatly before the Lord as Manasseh did. Let prayer be made without ceasing night and day, if ever you mean to pray open the prisons, and recover your spiritual privileges. Repent O thou of Sardis, that hast a name to live but ar• dead. The name may serve to deceive thy self, and to deceive others, but God will not be […] ed: he searcheth the heart. O prepare for •is search and for his scrutiny. Woe unto th•, ⟨p. 248⟩is he pronounce of thee, and write against thee as against Belshazzar; thou art weighed in the balance and sound wanting. Hear the voice of the living God; hear and live. Remember what you have received, and heard, and hold fast, and repent: and be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain and are ready to dye, lest the Lord come upon you as an enemy at unawares. Repent O worldly professor, that hast Christ in thy mouth and Mammon in thy heart. Ah what a Demas wilt thou quickly show thy self, except thou repent! how sadly will the fears of loosing thy estate betray thee! How surely will the cares of this world choke thee! how surely will the prevailing love of earthly things undo thee! except thou repent, O study the vanity and vexation of the Creatures; the emptiness, insufficiency, transitoriness of present enjoyments; the superlative excellency of Jesus Christ, and his exceeding great reward, till thy very heart do breath with the Martyr; none but Christ; and with Paul, doubtless I account all things but loss, &c. O sinner pray over, and study over these things, till thy heart be brought to a low esteem of perishing things. Walk so often with death, till thou art dead to the world, and canst look upon it, as a man would, that should peep out of his grave. Repent, O sleeper, that livest in carnal security, and layest not to heart the afflictions of Joseph. Doth the whole world ring of Gods Judgments upon England, and dost not thou awake yet, and call upon thy God? is the Church afflicted, and tossed with tempests, ⟨p. 249⟩