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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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Chap. III. Of the Necessity of Conversion.
IT may be, you are ready to say, What meaneth this stir? And are apt to wonder why I follow ⟨p. 44⟩you with such earnestness, still ringing one Lesson in your Ears, That you should repent and be converted, Acts 3.19. But I must say unto you, as Ruth to Naomi, Entreat me not to leave you, nor to turn aside from following after you, Ruth 1.16. Were it a Matter of Indifferency, I would never keep so much ado: Might you be saved as you be, I would gladly let you alone. But would you not have me solicitous for you, when I see you ready to perish? As the Lord liveth, before whom I am, I have not the least hopes to see one of your Faces in Heaven, except you be converted: I utterly despair of your Salvation; except you will be prevailed with to turn throughly, and give up yourselves to God in Holiness, and Newness of Life. Hath God said, Except you be born again, you cannot see the kingdom of God? John 3.3. and yet do you wonder why your Ministers do so plainly travail in Birth with you? Think it not strange, that I am earnest with you to follow after Holiness, and long to see the Image of God upon you: Never did any, nor shall any enter into Heaven by any other way but this. The Conversion described, is not an high pitch of some taller Christians; but every Soul that it […] •asseth this Universal Change.
IT may be, you are ready to say, What meaneth this stir? And are apt to wonder why I follow ⟨p. 44⟩