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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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But converting Grace sets all in order again, ••d puts God in the Throne, and the World at his Footstool, Psalm 73: 25. Christ in the Heart, and the World under Feet, Eph. 3, 17, Rev. 12, 1. So Paul I am crucified to the World, and the World to me, Gal. 6.14 Before this change, all the cry was, Who will show us any (worldly) good? But now he sings another tune, Lord, lift up the Light of thy Countenance upon me, and take the Corn and Oil whoso will, Psal. 4.6, 7. Before, his Heart's delight and content was in the World; then the Song was, Soul take thine case; eat, drink, and be merry; thou hast much Goods laid up for many Years: But now all this is withered, and there is no comeliness, that he should desire it; and he tunes up with the sweet Psalmist of Israel, The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, the lines are fallen to me in a fair place, and I have a goodly heritage. He blesseth himself, and boasts himself in God, Psal. 34.2. Lam. 3.24. nothing else can give him content. He hath written Vanity and Vexation upon all his worldly enjoyments, Eccles. 1 2. and loss and dung upon all human excellencies, Philip. 3: 7, 8: He hath Life and Immortality now in chase, Rom. 2, 7: He trades for Grace and Glory, and hath a Crown incorruptible in pursuit, 1 Cor. 8: 25. His Heart is set in him to seek the Lord, 1 Chron. 22: 19: and 2 Chron. 15.15