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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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Reader, Dost thou view this, and never ask thy self whether it be thus with thee? Pause a while, and breathe on this great Concernment.
2. The Election is also Changed; so that he chooseth another way, Psalm 119.13. He pitcheth upon God, as his blessedness and upon Christ as the Principal; and holiness as the subordinate means to bring him to God, John 14.6. Rom 2.7. He chooseth Jesus for his Lord, Col 2.6. He is not merely forced into Christ by the storm, nor doth he take Christ for ••re necessity, as the Man begged from the Gallows, when he takes the Wife rather than the Halter; but he comes off freely in the Choice: This Match is not made in a fright, as with the terrified Conscience of a dying Sinner; that will seemingly do any thing for Christ, but doth only take Christ, rather than Hell; but he deliberately resolves, that Christ •s his best choice, Philip. 1.23. and would •ather have him to choose, than all the goods of this World, might he enjoy it while he would: Again, he makes Holiness for his Path; he doth not, out of mere necessity submit to it, but he likes and loves it: I have chosen the way of thy precepts, Psalm 119.173. He •akes God's Testimonies, not as his Bondage, but as •is Heritage; yea, his Heritage for ever, verse 111. He counts them not his burden, but his bliss; not •is cords, but his cordials, 1 John 5.3.