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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

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preach to the people that a Christian drunkard or a Christian fornicator or oppressor or a Christian worldling needeth no Conversion Qu. 10. Ask them wether they say not themselves that Hypocrisie is a great aggravation of all other sin and whether God hath not made the Hypocrites and Vnbelievers to be the standards in Hell Luke 25. 51. And whether seeking to abuse God by a mock-religion do make such false Christians better than the poor Heathens and Infidels or much worse And whether he be not an Hypocrite that professeth to be a Christian and a servant of God when he is none nor will be And whether he that knoweth his masters will and doth it not shall not have the sorest stripes or punishment Luke 12. 47. Qu. 11. Ask them whether in their Baptism which is their Christening as to Covenant they did not renounce the flesh the world and the Devil and vow and deliver up themselves to God their Father their Saviour and their Sanctifier And whether all or most men perform this vow And whether a perjured Covenant-breaker against God is fitter for salvation than one that never was baptized Qu. 12. Ask them whether the holy nature of God be not so contrary to sin as that it is blasphemy to say that he will take into Heaven and into the bosome of his eternal delights any unholy unrenewed soul 1 Pet. 1. 15 16. Qu. 13. Ask them why it was that Christ came into the world whether it was not to save his people from their sins Mat. 1. 21. and to destroy the works of the Devil 1 Iohn 3. 8. and to purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Tit. 2. 14. and to bring home straying souls to God Luke 15. and to be the way to the Father Ioh. 14. 6. And whether Christ save that soul that is not converted by him and saved from his sins Or whether it be the dead Image only of a Crucified Iesus that is all their Saviour while they will have no more of him Qu. 14. Ask them why they believe and were baptized into the Holy Ghost and whether a man can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven that is not born of the Spirit as well as of Water Iohn 3. 3 5 6. and that is not converted and begins not the world as it were anew in a teachable tractable newness of life like a little child Matth. 18. 3. And whether it be not a certain truth that If any man have not the spirit of Christ the same is none of his Rom. 8. 9. Qu. 15. Ask them why Christ gave the world so many warnings of the damnableness of the Pharisees hypocrisie if Hypocritical Christians may be saved And what were these Pharisees They were the Masters of the Jewish Church The Rabbies that must have high places high titles and ceremonies formal garments and must be reverenced of all That gave God lip-service without the heart and made void his commands and worshipped him in vain teaching for doctrines the commandments of men and strictly tythed Mint and Cummin while love mercy and Justice were past by Who worshipped God with abundance of ceremonies and built the Tombs and garnished the Sepulchres of the Saints while they killed and persecuted those that did imitate them and hated the living Saints and honoured the dead They were the bitterest enemies and murderers of Christ on pretense that he was a blasphemer and a seditious enemy to Caesar and the common peace and one that spake against the Temple They were the greatest enemies of the Apostles and silencers of those that preached Christs Gospel and persecuted them that called on his name And had these no need of Conversion because they could say God is our Father when the Devil was their Father Iohn 8. 44. and that they were Abraham's seed And are not hypocritical Christians drunken Christians fornicating Christians carnal worldly infidel Christians the contradiction is your own persecuting Christians false-named hypocritical Christians as bad yea worse as they abuse a more excellent profession Mat. 15. 7 8. and 23. and 22. 18. and 6. 2 c. Luke 12. 1. Qu. 16. Doth not the Holy State of Heaven require Holiness in all that shall possess it Can an unholy soul there see and love and praise and delight in God for ever and in the Holy Society and employment of the Saints Rev. 21. 27. Is he not liker a Mahometan than a Christian that looketh for a sensual and unholy Heaven Qu. 17. What is the difference between the Church and the world Is not the Church a holy Society of Regenerate souls Yea the Church visible is those only that in Baptism vow Holiness and profess it Look these hypocrites in the face and see whether they do not blush when they repeat in their Creed I believe in the Holy Ghost I believe the Holy Catholick Church and the Communion of Saints who shall have the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting Ask them whether they mean Holy Adulterers holy worldlings holy perjured persons Ask them whether they mean a Communion of Saints in a Tavern in a play-house in a gaming house in a whore-house or a jesting canting stage-play Communion If the Church be holy be holy if you will be of the Church If it be a Communion of Saints make it not a Communion of swine and make not Saints and their Communion seem odious either for their infirmities or their crossness to your carnal interests or conceits Qu. 18. Ask them whether there be a Heaven and a Hell or not If not why are they pretended Christians If there be will God send one man to Heaven and another to Hell to so vast so amazing a difference of states if there be no great difference between them here If Holiness no more differenced Christians from others than saying a sermon or saying over a prayer doth difference one from an Infidel where were the Iustice of God in saving some and damning others what were Christianity better than the religion of Antonine Plato Socrates Seneca Cicero Plutarch if not much worse Go into London streets and when you have talk● with living prudent men then go to the Painters shop and see a comely picture and to the Looking-glass and see the appearances of each passenger in a glass and to the Periwig shops and see a wooden head with a Periwig upon the bulk and you have seen somewhat like the difference of a Holy Soul and of a dead and dressed formal hypocrite Psal. 23. 27. Qu. 19. Ask them whether Kings and all men make not a great difference between man and man the loyal and the per●idious the obedient and the disobedient And whether they difference not themselves between a friend and a foe one that loveth them and one that robbeth beateth or would kill them And shall not the most Holy God more difference between the righteous and the wicked Mal. 3. 17 18. Qu. 20. But if they are dead in every