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An alarm to unconverted sinners. In a serious treatise: showing I. What conversion is…An alarm to unconverted sinners. In a serious treatise: shewing I. What conversion is…
An alarm to unconverted sinners. In a serious treatise: showing I. What conversion is not, and correcting some mistakes about it. II. What conversion is, and wherein it consisteth. III. The necessity of conversion. IV. The marks of the unconverted. V. The miseries of the unconverted. VI. Directions for conversion. VII. Motions [i.e., Motives] to conversion. : Whereunto are annexed Divers practical cases of conscience judiciously resolved. / By Joseph Alleine, late Minister of the Gospel at Taunton, in Somersetshire.An alarm to unconverted sinners. In a serious treatise: shewing I. What conversion is not, and correcting some mistakes about it. II. What conversion is, and wherein it consisteth. III. The necessity of conversion. IV. The marks of the unconverted. V. The miseries of the unconverted. VI. Directions for conversion. VII. Motions [i.e., Motives] to conversion. : Whereunto are annexed Divers practical cases of conscience judiciously resolv'd. / By Joseph Alleine, late Minister of the Gospel at Taunton, in Somersetshire.
Philadelphia: printed by B. Franklin, 1741
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3. It lies not in a moral Righteousness. This exceeds not the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, and therefore cannot bring us to the Kingdom of God, Matth. 5.20 Paul, while unconverted, touching the righteousness which is in the Law, blameless, Phil. •.6. None could say, Black is thine Eye. The Self-justiciary could say, I am no Extortioner, Adulterer, unjust, &c. Luke 18.11. Thou must have something more than all this to show, or else (however thou mayest justify thy self) God will condemn thee. I condemn not Morality, but warn you not to rest here: Piety includes Morality, as Christianity doth Humanity, and Grace Reason, but we must not divide the Tables.
3. It lies not in a moral Righteousness. This exceeds not the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, and therefore cannot bring us to the Kingdom of God, Matth. 5.20 Paul, while unconverted, touching the •ighteousness which is in the Law, blameless, Phil. •.6. None could say, Black is thine Eye. The Self-••sticiary could say, I am no Extortioner, Adulterer, •njust, &c. Luke 18.11. Thou must have something more than all this to shew, or else (however thou mayest justify thy self) God will condemn thee. I •ondemn not Morality, but warn you not to rest here: Piety includes Morality, as Christianity doth Humanity, and Grace Reason, but we must not divide the Tables.
4 It consists not in an external conformity to the Rules f Piety. 'Tis too manifest, Men may have a Form of godliness, without the power,