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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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Object. Why but we hope in Jesus Christ, we put our whole Trust in God, and therefore doubt not but we shall be saved.
Ans. 1. This is not to hope in Christ, but against Christ. To hope to see the Kingdom of God without being born again; to hope to find eternal Life in the broad Way, is to hope Christ will prove a false Prophet. 'Tis David's Plea, I hope in thy Word, Ps. 119.81. but this hope is against the Word. Show me a Word of Christ for thy hope, that he will save thee in thine Ignorance, or profane Neglects of his Service, and I will never go to shake thy Confidence.
Ans. 1. This is not to hope in Christ, but against Christ. To hope to see the Kingdom of God without being born again; to hope to find eternal Life in the broad Way, is to hope Christ will prove a false Prophet. 'Tis David's Plea, I hope in thy Word, Ps. 119.81. but this hope is against the Word. Shew me a Word of Christ for thy hope, that he will save thee in thine Ignorance, or profane Neglects of his Service, and I will never go to shake thy Confidence.
2. God doth with abhorrence reject this hope. Those condemned in the Prophet, went on in their Sins, yet (saith the Text) they will lean upon the Lord, Micah 3.11. God will not endure to be made a prop to Men in their Sins: The Lord rejected those presumptuous Sinners, that went on still in their Trespasses, and yet would stay themselves upon the God of Israel, Isa. 48.1, 2