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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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Dedication: To all the Ignorant, Carnal, and Ungodly, who are Lovers of Pleasure more than God, and…
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And being thus moved with necessary Pity, we ask of God what he would have us to do for your Salvation; and he hath told us in Scripture, that the Preaching of his Gospel, to acquaint you plainly with the Truth, and earnestly and frequently entreat you to turn from the Flesh and World to God by Jesus Christ, is the Means with which his Grace is ready to concur for your Salvation; when obstinate Resistance causeth the Holy Spirit to forsake the Sinner, and leave him to himself, to follow his own Counsels, Lusts and Wills.
And being thus moved with necessary Pity, we ask of God what he would have us to do for your Salvation; and he hath told us in Scripture, that the Preaching of his Gospel, to acquaint you plainly with the Truth, and earnestly and frequently intreat you to turn from the Flesh and World to God by Jesus Christ, is the Means with which his Grace is ready to concur for your Salvation; when obstinate Resistance causeth the Holy Spirit to forsake the Sinner, and leave him to himself, to follow his own Counsels, Lusts and Wills.
In this Hope we undertook the sacred Ministry, and gave up ourselves to this great and most important Work, in the great Sense of our Unworthiness, but yet in the sense of your Souls Necessity. We were not such Fools at our first setting out, as not to know it must be a Life of Labour, Self-denial and Patience, and the Devil would do his worst to hinder us, and that all sorts of his Instruments would be ready to serve him against our Labours, and against your Souls. Christ your Captain saved by Patient Conquest, and so must we save ourselves and you; And so must you save yourselves under Christ, if ever you be saved. It was not strange to Paul, that Bonds and Afflictions did every where abide him; nor did he account his Life dear, that he might finish his Course with Joy, and the Ministry committed to him by the Lord, Acts 20, 23, 24. It was no strange thing to him, to be forbidden to preach to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, by such as were filling up the measure of their Sins, and where, under God's uttermost Wrath ⟨p. v⟩