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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. The Terms from which we turn in this motion of Conversion, are Sin, Satan, the World, and our own Righteousness.
First, Sin. When a Man is converted, he is for ever out with sin; yea, with all sin, Psalm 119, 128, but most of all with his own sins, and especially with his Bosom-sin, Psalm 18.23. Sin is now the But of his Indignation, 2 Cor. 7.11. he thirsts to bathe his hands in the blood of his sins. His sins set a broach in sorrows: It is sin that pierceth him, and wounds him; he feels it like a thorn in his side, like a prick in his Eyes; he groans and struggles under it, and not formally, but feelingly cries out, O ••ched Man •he is not impatient of any Burden, so much as his sin, Psalm 40.12. If God should give him his choice, he would choose any Affliction, •o be might be rid of sin; he feels it like the ⟨p. 30⟩cutting Gravel in his Shoes, p•cking and paining him as he goes
First, Sin. When a Man is converted, he is for ever out with sin; yea, with all sin, Psalm 119, 128, but most of all with his own sins, and especially with his Bosom-sin, Psalm 18.23. Sin is now the But of his Indignation,