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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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The less Principal is the Laws Ordinances and Ways of Christ. The Heart that was once set against these, and could not endure the strictness of these Bonds, the severity of these ways, now falls in love with them, and chooses them as its Rule and Guide for ever, Psalm 119.111, 112.
Four things (I observe) God doth work in every sound Convert, with reference to the Laws and Ways of Christ, by which you may come to know your Estates, if you will be faithful to your own Souls; and therefore keep your Eyes upon your Hearts as you go along.
1. The Judgment is brought to approve of them, and subscribe to them as most righteous and most reasonable Psalm 11.112.128, 137, 138. The Mind is brought to like the Ways of God, and the corrupt Prejudices that were once against them, as unreasonable, and intolerable, are now removed. The Understanding assents to them all, as holy, just and good, Rom. 7 ⟨p. 40⟩12. How is David taken up with these Excellencies of God's Laws; How doth he explain in their praises both from their inherent Qualities and admirable Effects, Psalm 19.8, 9, 10, &c.