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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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Secondly, To bad purpose. The unconverted Soul is a very Cage of unclean Birds, Rev. 18 2. a Sepulchre full of corruption and rottenness, Matth. 23.27. a loathsome Carcass, full of crawling Worms, and sending forth a hellish and most noisome Savour in the Nostrils of God, Psalm 14.3. O dreadful Case! Dost thou not yet see a change to be needful? Would it not have grieved one, to have seen the golden consecrated Vessels of God's Temple turned into quaffing Bowls of Drunkenness, and polluted with the Idols Service, Dan. 5.2, 3. Was •• such an Abomination to the Jews, when Antiochus set up the Picture of a Swine at the Entrance of the Temple? How much more abominable then would it have been, to have had the very Temple itself turned into a Stable or a Sty, and to have the Holy of Holies served like the House of Baal; to have the Image of God taken down, and be turned into a Draught-house? 2 Kings 10.27. This is the very Case of the Unregenerate; All thy Members are turned into Instruments of unrighteousness, Rom. 6.19. Servants of Satan: and thy inmost powers into receptacles of uncleanness. Eph. 2.2. Titus 1.15. You may see the goodly Guests within, by what come out. For out of the Heart proceed evil Thoughts, Murders, Adulteries, Fernicatione, Thefts, False Witness, Blasphemies, &c. This black Guard discovers what a Hell there is within.
Secondly, To bad purpose. The unconverted Soul is a very Cage of unclean Birds, Rev. 18 2. a Sepulchre full of corruption and rottenness, Matth. 23.27. a loathsome Carcase, full of crawling Worms, and sending forth a hellish and most noisom Savour in the Nostrils of God,