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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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Thirdly, the World. Before a sound Faith, a Man is overcome of the World; either he bows down to Mammon, or idolizes his reputation, or is a Lover of Pleasure more than a Lover of God, 2 Tim. 3.4. Here's the Root of Man's Misery by the Fall; he is turned aside to the Creature, instead of God, and gives that esteem, confidence, and affection to the Creature, that is due to him alone, Rom. 1.25. Mat. 10.37. Prov 18.11. Jer. 17.5.
O miserable Man! What a deformed Monster hath sin made the•? God made thee little lower than the Angels; Sin little better than the Devils, John 6.70. & 8.44. A monster, that hath his Head, and Heart where his Feet should be, and his Feet ⟨p. 33⟩kicking against Heaven, and every thing out of place; the World, that was formed to serve thee, is come to rule thee, and the deceitful Harlot hath bewitched thee with her Enchantments, and made thee bow down and serve her.
O miserable Man! What a deformed Monster hath sin made the•? God made thee little lower than the Angels; Sin little better than the Devils, John 6.70. & 8.44. A monster, that hath his Head, and Heart where his Feet should be, and his Feet ⟨p. 33⟩