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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 the Hypocrites rottenness may be discovered. He desires Holiness (as one says well) only as a Bridge to Heaven, and enquires earnestly, what is the least that will serve his Turn; and if he can get but so much as may just bring him to Heaven, this is all he cares for. But the sound Convert desires Holiness for Holiness sake, Psalm 119.97. Matth. 5.6. and not only for Heaven's sake. He would not b• satisfied with so much as might save him from Hell but desires the highest Pitch. Yet Desires are no• enough. What is thy Way and thy Course? Is th• drift and scope of thy Life altered? Is Holiness thy Trade, and Religion thy Business? Rom. 8.• Matth. 25.16. Phil. 1.20. If not, thou art short •• sound Conversion.
Here the Hypocrites rottenness may be discovered. He desires Holiness (as one says well) only as a Bridge to Heaven, and enquires earnestly, what is the least that will serve his Turn; and if he can get but so much as may just bring him to Heaven, this is all he cares for. But the sound Convert desires Holiness for Holiness sake, Psalm 119.97. Matth. 5.6. and not only for Heaven's sake. He would not b• satisfied with so much as might save him from Hell but desires the highest Pitch. Yet Desires are no• enough. What is thy Way and thy Course? Is th• drift and scope of thy Life altered? Is Holines• thy Trade, and Religion thy Business?