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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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1. Throughout the mind. It makes an universal Change within. First, It turns the Balance of the Judgment, so that God and his Glory do weigh down all carnal and worldly Interest, Acts 20.24. Phil. 1.20. Psalm 73.25. It opens the Eye of the Mind, and makes the Scales of its Native Ignorance to fall off, and turns Men from darkness to Light, Acts 26 18. Eph. 5 8. 1 Pet. 2.9 The Man that before saw no danger in his condition, now concludes himself lost, and for ever undone, Acts 2.37. except renewed by the power of Grace. He that formerly thought there was little Hurt in Sin, now comes to see it to be the Chief of Evils; he sees the unreasonableness, unrighteousness, the deformity and filthiness that is in Sin: so that he is affrighted with it, loathes at it, dreads it, flies it, and even abhors himself for it, Rom 7.15. Job 42.6. Ezek. 36.31. He that could see little Sin in himself, and could find no matter for confession (as it was said of that learned Ignoramus Bellarmine, who, it seems, while he knew so much abroad, was a miserable Stranger to himself) that when he was to be confessed by the Priest, could not remember any thing to confess; but was fain to run back to the Sins of his Youth: I say, he that could not find matter for confession, unless it were some few gross and staring Evils, now Sin reviveth with him, Rom. 7.9. he sees the Rottenness of his Heart, and desperate and deep pollution of his whole Nature: he cries, Unclean, unclean, Levit. 13.45. Lord, purge me with byssop, wash me throughly, create in me a new heart,