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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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III. Without this, thy Religion is in vain, J•. 1.26. All thy religious Performances will be but lost; for they can neither please God, Rom. 8.8. nor save thy Soul, 1 Cor. 13.2, 3. which are the very Ends of Religion. Be thy services never so precious, yet God hath no Pleasure in them, Isa. 1.14. Mal. 1.10. Is not that Man's Case dreadful, whose sacrifices are as murder, and whose prayers are a breath of abomination, Isa. 66.3. Prov 28.9. Many, under Convictions, think they will set upon mending, and that a few Prayers and Alms will solve all again: But alas, Sirs! while your Hearts remain unsanctified, your Duties will not pass. How punctual was Jehu! and yet all was rejected, because his Heart was not upright, 2 Kings 10, with Hos. 1.4. How blameless was Paul? and yet, being unconverted, all was but loss, Philip. 3.6, 7. Men think they do much in attending God's Service, and are ready to twit him with it, Isa. 58.3. Matth. 7.22. and set him down so much their debtor, when as (their Persons being unsanctified) their Duties cannot be accepted.
O Soul! do not think, when thy Sins pursue thee, a little praying and reforming thy course will pacify God: Thou must begin with thine Heart; if that be not renewed, thou canst no more please God, than one that having unspeakably offended thee, should