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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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Here again you shall find the unsoundness of ma• ⟨p. 29⟩Professors, that take themselv•• or good Christians. They are partial in the Law, Mal. 2.9. and take up with the cheap and easy Duties of Religion, but they go not through with the work: They are as a Cake not turned, half toasted, and half raw: It may be you shall have them exact in their Word, punctual in their dealings: but then they do not exercise themselves, unto Godliness; and for examining themselves, and governing their Hearts, to this they are strangers: You may have them duly at Church, but follow them to their Families, and there you shall see little but their Families minded; or if they have a Road of Family-duties, follow them to their Closets, and there you shall find their Souls are little looked after: It may be they seem otherwise religions, but bridle not their Tongues, and so all their Religion is in vain, James 1, 26. It may be they come up to Closet, and Family-prayer; but follow them to their Shops, and there you shall find them in a trade of lying, or some covert and cleanly way of deceit; Thus the Hypocrite goes not throughout in the Course of his Obedience.
And thus much for the su•••t of Conversion.
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