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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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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 ⟨p. 50⟩bring thee his Vomit in a Dish to pacify thee; or having fallen into the Mi•e, should think with his loathed Embraces to reconcile thee.
It is a great Misery to labour in the Fire. The Poets could not invent a worser hell for Sis•plous, than to be getting the barrel still up the hill, and then that it should presently fall down again, and renew his labour. God threatens it, as the greatest of temporal Judgments, that they should build and not inhabit, plant and not gather, and their Labours should be eat up by Strangers, Deut. 23.30, 38, 39, 41. Is it so great a misery to lose our common labours, to sow in vain, and build in vain? how much more to lose our pains in Religion, to pray and hear, and fast in vain? This is an undoing and eternal loss. Be not deceived, if thou goest on in thy sinful state, tho' thou shouldst spread forth thine Hands, God will hide his Eyes; tho' thou make many prayers, he will not hear, Isa. 1.15 If a Man without Skill set about our Work, and ma• it in the doing, tho' he take much Pains, we give him but small thanks. God will be worshipped after the due Order, 1 Chron. 15.13. If a Servant do our Work, but quite contrary to our Order, he shall have rather stripes than praise. God's Work must be done according to God's mind, or he will not be pleased; and this cannot be, except it be done with a holy Heart, 2 Chron. 25.2.