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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26682	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.	Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668.	1672 (1672)	Wing A961; ESTC R8216	136,383	262

the Minister of God a revenger to execute wrath on him that doth evil Now should Christ favour the ungodly so continuing and take those to reign with him that would not that he should reign over them Luke 19. 27. this were quite against his office He therefore reigns that he may put his enemies under his feet 1 Cor. 15. 25. now should he lay them in his bosome he should cross the end of his Regal power It belongs to Christ as King to subdue the hearts and slay the lusts of his chosen Psal. 45. 5. Psal. 110. 3. What King would take the rebels in open hostility into his Court What were this but to betray life Kingdom Government and all together If Christ be a King he must have homage honour subjection c. Mal. 1. 6. now to save men while in their natural enmity were to obscure his dignity lose his authority bring contempt on his Government and sell his dear-bought rights for nought Again as Christ should not be a Prince so neither a Saviour if he should do this For his Salvation is spiritual he is called Jesus because he saves his people from their sins Mat. 1. 21. So that should he save them in their sins he should be neither Lord nor Jesus To save men from the punishment and not from the power of sin were to do his work by halvs and be an imperfect Saviour His office as the Deliverer is to turn away ungodliness from Iacob Rom. 11. 26. He is sent to bless men in turning them from their iniquities Act. 3. 26 to make an end of sin Dan. 9. 24. so that he should destroy his own designs and nullify his offices to save men abiding in their unconverted estate Application Arise then what meanest thou O sleeper awake O secure sinner lest thou be consumed in thine iniquities Say as the Lepers If we sit here we shall die 2 Kings 7. 3 4. Verily it is not more certain thou art now out of hell than that thou shalt speedily be in it except thou repent and be converted there is but this one door for thee to escape by Arise then O sluggard and shake off thine excuses How long wilt thou slumber and fold thy hands to sleep Prov. 6. 10 11. Wilt thou lie down in the midst of the Sea or sleep on the top of the mast Prov. 23. 34. There is no remedy but thou must either turn or burn There is an unchangeable necessity of the change of thy condition except thou art resolved to bide the worst of it and try it out with the Almighty If thou lovest thy life O man arise and come away Methinks I see the Lord Jesus laying the merciful hands of an holy violence upon thee methinks he carries it like the Angels to Lot Gen. 19. 15. c. Then the Angels hastened Lot saying Arise lest thou be consumed And while he lingred the men laid hold upon his hand the Lord being merciful unto him and they brought him without the City and said Escape for thy life stay not in all the plain escape to the mountain lest thou be consumed Oh how willful will thy destruction be if thou shouldst yet harden thy self in thy sinful state But none of you can say but you have had fair warning Yet methinks I cannot tell how to leave you so It is not enough to me to have delivered my own soul. What shall I go away without my errand Will none of you arise and follow me Have I been all this while speaking in the wind Have I been charming the deaf adder or allaying the tumbling Ocean with arguments Do I speak to the trees or rocks or to men to the tombs and monuments of the dead or to a living auditory If you be men and not senseless stocks stand still and consider whither you be going If you have the reason and understanding of men dare not run into the flames and fall into hell with your eyes open but bethink your selves and set to the work of repentance What men and yet run into the pit when the very beasts will not be forced in What endowed with reason and yet dally with death and hell and the vengeance of the Almighty Are men herein distinguished from the very bruits that they have a foresight of and a care to provide for the things to come and will you not hasten your escape from eternal torments Oh shew your selves men and let reason prevail with you Is it a reasonable thing for you to contend against the Lord your maker Esay 45. 9. or to harden your selves against his word Iob 9. 4. as though the strength of Israel would lie 1 Sam. 15. 29. Is it reasonable that an understanding creature should lose yea live quite against the very end of his being and be as a broken pitcher only fit for the dunghil Is it tolerable that the only thing in this world that God hath made capable of knowing his will and bringing him glory should yet live in ignorance of his maker and be unserviceable to his use yea should be engaged against him and spit his venom in the face of his Creatour Hear O Heavens and give ear O earth and let the creatures without sense be judge if this be reason that man when God hath nourished and brought him up should rebel against him Esay 1. 2. Judge in your own selves is it a reasonable undertaking for briars and thorns to set themselves in battel against the devouring fire Esay 27. 4. or for the po●sheard of the earth to strive with his maker If you will say this is reason surely the eye of reason is quite put out And if this be not reason then there is no reason that you should continue as you be but 't is all the reason in the world you should forthwith repent and turn What shall I say I could spend my self in this argument Oh that you would but hearken to me that you would presently set upon a new course Will you not be made clean When shall it once be What will no body be perswaded Reader shall I prevail with thee for one Wilt thou sit down and consider the forementioned arguments and debate it whether it be not best to turn Come and let us reason together Is it good for thee to be here Wilt thou sit still till the tide come in upon thee Is it good for thee to try whether God will be so good as his word and to harden thy self in a conceit that all is well with thee while thou remainest unsanctified But I know you will not be perswaded but the greatest part will be as they have been and do as they have done I know the drunkard will to his vomit again and the deceiver will to his deceit again and the lustful wanton to his dalliance again Alas that I must leave you where you were in your ignorance or looseness or in your liveless formality and customary devotions However I will sit down

jewels in the snouts of swine continuing such and to bestow his choicest riches on them that have more pleasure in their swill than the Heavenly delights that he doth offer God should lose the praise and glory of his grace if he should cast it away on them that were not only unworthy but unwilling Secondly they are no way suited to them The divine wisdom is seen in suiting things each to other the means to the end the object to the faculty the quality of the gift to the capacity of the receiver Now if Christ should bring the unregenerate sinner to Heaven he could take no more felicity there than a beast if you should bring him into a beautiful room to the society of learned men and a well furnished table when as the poor thing had much rather be grazing with his fellow-bruits Alas what should an unsanctified creature do in Heaven he could take no content because nothing suits him The place doth not suit him he would be but piscis in arido quite out of his element as a swine in the parlour or a fish out of water The company doth not suit him What communion hath darkness with light corruption with perfection Filth and rottenness with glory and immortality The employment doth not suit him The anthems of Heaven fit not his mouth suit not his ear Canst thou charm thy beast with musick or wilt thou bring him to thy Organ and expect that he should make thee melody or keep time with the skilful quire Or had he skill he would have no will and so could find no pleasure no more than the nauseous stomach in the meat on which it hath newly surfeited Spread thy table with delicates before a languishing patient and it will be but a very offence Alas if the poor man think a sermon long and say of a Sabbath What a weariness is it Mal. 1. 13. how miserable would be think it to be held to it to all eternity 5. To his Immutability or else to his Omnisciency or Omnipotency For this is enacted in the conclave of Heaven and enrolled in the decrees of the Court above that none but the pure in heart shall ever see God Mat. 5. 8. This is laid up with him and sealed among his treasures Now if Christ yet bring any to Heaven unconverted either he must get them in without his fathers knowledge and then where is his Omnisciency or against his will and then where were his Omnipotency or he must change his will and then where were his immutability Sinner wilt thou not yet give up thy vain hope of being saved in this condition Saith Bildad Shall the earth be forsaken for thee or the rocks removed out of their place Iob. 18. 4. May not I much more reason so with thee Shall the Laws of Heaven be reversed for thee Shall the everlasting foundations be overturned for thee Shall Christ put out the eye of his Fathers omnisciency or shorten the arm of his eternal power for thee Shall divine justice be violated for thee Or the brightness of the glory of his holiness be blemished for thee Oh the impossibility absurdity blasphemy that is in such a confidence To think Christ will ever save thee in this condition is to make thy Saviour to become a sinner and to do more wrong to the infinite Majesty than all the wicked on earth or devils in hell ever did or could And yet wilt thou not give up such a blasphemous hope II. Against his word We need not say Who shall ascend into Heaven to bring down Christ from above Or who shall descend into the deep to bring up Christ from beneath The word is nigh us Rom. 10. 6 7 8. Are you agreed that Christ shall end the controversie Hear then his own words Except you be converted you shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 18. 3. You must be born again Iohn 3. 7. If I wash thee not thou hast no part in me Iohn 13. 8. Repent or perish Luke 13. 3. One word one would think were enough from Christ but how often and earnestly doth he reiterate it verily verily verily verily except a man be born again he shall not see the Kingdom of God Iohn 3. 3 5. Yea he doth not only assert but prove the necessity of the new birth viz. from the fleshliness and filthiness of mans first birth Iohn 3. 6. by reason of which man is no more fit for Heaven than the beast is for the chamber of the Kings presence And wilt thou yet believe thine own presumptuous confidence directly against Christs word He must go quite against the Law of his Kingdom and rule of his judgment to save thee in this estate III. Against his Oath He hath lifted up his hand to Heaven he hath sworn that those that remain in unbelief and know not his wayes that is are ignorant of them or disobedient to them shall not enter into his rest Psal. 95. 11. Heb. 3. 18. And wilt thou not yet believe O sinner that he is in earnest Canst thou hope he will be forsworn for thee The Covenant of grace is confirmed by oath and sealed by blood Heb. 6. 17. Heb. 9. 16 18 19. Mat. 26. 28. but all must be made void and another way to Heaven found out if thou be saved living and dying unsanctified God is come to his lowest and last terms with man and hath condescended as far as with honour he could hath set up his pillars with a Ne plus ultra Men cannot be saved while unconverted except they could get another Covenant made and the whole frame of the Gospel which was established for ever with such dreadful solemnities quite altered and would not this be a distracted hope IV. Against his Honour Christ will so shew his love to the sinner as withall to shew his hatred to sin Therefore he that names the name of Jesus must depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2. 19. and deny all ungodliness and he that hath hope of life by Christ must purify himself as he is pure 1 Iohn 3. 3. Tit. 2. 12. otherwise Christ would be thought a fautour of sin The Lord Jesus will have all the world to know though he pardon sin he will not protect it If holy David shall say depart from me all you workers of iniquity Psal. 6. 8. and shall shut his doors against them Psal. 101. 7. shall not such much more expect it from Christs holiness Would it be for his honour to have the dogs to the table or to lodge the swine with his children or to have Abrahams bosome to be a nest of Vipers V. Against his Offices God hath exalted him to be a Prince and a Saviour Act. 5. 31. he should against both should he save men in their sins It is the office of a King ●arcere subjectis debellare superbos To be a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well Rom. 13. 3 4. He is