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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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6. In short, it consists not in illumination or conviction; in a superficial change, or partial reformation: An Apostate may be a Man enlightened, Heb 6 4. & a Felix tremble under Convictions, Acts. 24.25 and a Herod amend many things. Mark 6.20. 'Tis one thing to have Sin alarmed only by Convictions, and another to have it captivated and crucified by Converting Grace. Many, because they have been troubled in Conscience for their Sins, think well of their case: miserably mistaking Conviction for Conversion. With these Cain might have passed for a Convert, who ran up and down the World, like a Man distracted, under the rage of a guilty conscience, till with building and business he had wore it away, Gen. 4.13, 14. Others think, that because they have given off their riotous courses, and are broken off from evil Company or some particular lust, and reduced to sobriety, and civility, they are now no other than real Converts; forgetting that there is a vast Difference between being sanctified, and civilized; and that many seek to enter into the kingdom of Heaven, Luke 13.24. and are not far from it, Mark 12.34. and arrive to the almost of Christianity, Acts 26.28. and yet fall short at last: While Conscience holds the whip over them, many will pray, hear, and read, and forbear their delightful sins; but no sooner is this Lion asleep, but they are at their vomit again. Who more religious than the Jews, when God's ••nd was upon them? Psalm 78.34, 35. But no sooner was the affliction over, but they forgot God, and showed their Religion to be a Fit, verses 36, 37. Thou mayest have disgorged a troublesome Sin, that will not sit in thy Stomach, and have escaped those gross pollutions of the Word, and yet not have changed the swinish Nature all the while, 2 Peter 2.20, 22