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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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Thou beginnest at the wrong end, if thou disputest first about thine Election: Prove thy Conversion, and then never doubt of thine Election: Or canst thou not yet prove it? Set upon a present and through turning▪ Whatever God's purposes be, (which are ⟨p. 20⟩secret) I am sure his Promises are plain. How desperately do Rebels argue, If I am Elected, I shall be saved, do what I will; if not, I shall be damned, do what I can. Perverse Sinner, wilt thou begin where thou shouldst end? Is not the word before thee? What saith it? Repent and be converted, that your Sins may be blotted out, Acts 13.19 if you mortify the deeds of the Body, you shall live, Rom. 8.13. Believe and be saved, Acts 16.31. What can be plainer? Do not stand still, disputing about thine Election, but set to repenting and believing. Cry to God for converting grace. Revealed things belong to thee, in these busy thy self. 'Tis just (as one well said) that they that will not feed on the plain food of the Word, should be choked with the Bones. Whatever God's Purposes be I am sure His Promises be true. What ever the Decrees of Heaven be, I am sure, that if I repent and believe, I shall be saved; and that if I repent not, I shall be damned Is not here plain ground for thee? and wilt thou yet run upon the Rocks?
Thou beginnest at the wrong end, if thou disputest first about thine Election: Prove thy Conversion, and then never doubt of thine Election: Or canst thou not yet prove it? Set upon a present and thorow turning▪ Whatever God's purposes be, (which are ⟨p. 20⟩secret) I am sure his Promises are plain. How desperately do Rebels argue, If I am Elected, I shall be saved, do what I will; if not, I shall be damned, do what I can. Perverse Sinner, wilt thou begin where thou shouldst end? Is not the word before thee? What saith it? Repent and be converted, that your Sins may be blotted out,