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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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So then it is a work above Man's power. We are born, not of the will of the Flesh, nor of the Will of Man, but of God, John 1.13. Never think thou canst convert thy self: If ever thou wouldst be savingly converted, thou must despair of doing it in thine own strength; Jer. 13.18. It is a Resurrection from the Dead, Rev. 20.5. Eph. 2.1. a new creation, Gal. 6.15. Eph. 2.10. a Work of absolute Omnipotency, Eph. 19. Are these out of the reach of Human power? If thou hast no more than thou hadst by thy First-birth, a good Nature, a meek and chaste Temper, &c. thou art a very strang•• to true Conversion. This is a supernatural W••k.
So then it is a work above Man's power. We are born, not of the will of the Flesh, nor of the Will of Man, but of God, John 1.13. Never think thou canst convert thy self: If ever thou wouldst be favingly converted, thou must despair of doing it in thine own strengh; Jer. 13.18. It is a Resurrection from the Dead, Rev. 20.5. Eph. 2.1. a new creation, Gal. 6.15. Eph. 2.10. a Work of absolute Omnipotency, Eph. 19. Are these out of the reach of Human power? If thou hast no more than thou hadst by thy First-birth, a good Nature, a meek and chaste Temper, &c. thou art a very strang•• to true Conversion. This is a supernatural Wk.