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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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His Fears are not so much of suffering, but of s• ing Heb, 11.25, 27. Once he was afraid of nothing so much as the loss of his Estate, or Esteem, the Pleasure ⟨p. 25⟩of Friends, the Frowns of the Great: Nothing •ounded so terrible to him as Pain, or Poverty, or disgrace Now these are little to him, in comparison of God's dishonour or displeasure. How warily doth •e walk, lest he should tread on a snare? He feareth •way, he looks before and behind; he hath his Eye upon his Heart, and is often casting over his shoulder, lest he should be overtaken with sin, Psal. 30.1. Prov. 28.14. Eccles. 1.14. It kills his Heart to think •f losing God's Favour: this he dreads as his only undoing, Psalm 51.11, 12. Psalm 119.8. No thought […] the World doth pinch him, and pain him so such as to think of parting with Christ.
His Fears are not so much of suffering, but of s• ing Heb, 11.25, 27. Once he was afraid of nothing so much as the loss of his Estate, or Esteem, the Pleasure ⟨p. 25⟩of Friends, the Frowns of the Great: Nothing •ounded so terrible to him as Pain, or Poverty, or •isgrace Now these are little to him, in compari•on of God's dishonour or displeasure. How warily doth •e walk, lest he should tread on a snare? He feareth way, he looks before and behind; he hath his Eye vpon his Heart, and is often casting over his shouler, lest he should be overtaken with sin,