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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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3. Throughout the Motions, or the Life and Practice. The new Man takes a new Course, Eph. 2.2.3. His Conversation is in Heaven, Phil. 3.20. No sooner doth Christ call by effectual grace, but he straight-way becomes a follower of him, Matth. 4.20. When God hath given the new Heart, and writ his Law in his Mind, he forthwith walks in his Statutes, and keeps his Judgments, Ezek. 36.26.27.
Tho' Sin may dwell (God knows a wearisome and unwelcome guest) in him, yet it hath no more Dominion over him, Rom. 6.7, 14. He hath his fruit unto Holiness, Rom. 6.22. and tho' he makes many a blot, yet the Law and Life of Jesus is that he eyes as his copy, Psalm. 119.30. Heb 12.2. and hath an unfeigned respect to all God's Commandments, Psalm 119.6 He makes Conscience even of little Sins, and little Duties, Psal. 119.113, His very Infirmities which he cannot help, tho' he would, are his Soul's burden, and are like the Dust in a Man's Eye, which tho' but little, yet are not a little troublesome. [O Man dost thou read this, and never turn in upon thy Soul by Self-examination?] The Sincere Convert is not one Man at Church, and another at home; he is not a Saint on his Knees, and a Cheat in his Shop; he will not tithe Mint and Cummin, and neglect Mercy and Judgment, and the weighty matters of the Law; he doth not pretend Piety, and neglect Morality,