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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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Answ. You must despair of ever coming to Heaven as you are, Acts 2.37. that is, while you remain unconverted You must despair ever to see the Face of God, without holiness; but you must by no means despair of finding Mercy, upon your thorough Repentance and Conversion; neither must you despair of attaining to Repentance and Conversion, in the Use of God's Means.
V. Without this, all that Christ hath done and suffered will be (as to you) in vain, John 13.8. Tit. 2.14. That is, it will not avail to your Salvation. Many urge this as a sufficient ground for their Hopes, that Christ died for Sinners: But I must tell you, Christ never died to save impenitent and unconverted Sinners (so continuing) 2 Tim. 2.19. A great Divine was wont, in his private Dealings with Souls, to ask two Questions, 1. What hath Christ done for you? 2. What hath Christ wrought in you? Without the Application of the Spirit in Regeneration, we can have no saving Interest in the Benefits of Redemption. I tell you from the Lord, Christ himself cannot save you, if you go on in this estate.
I. It were against his Trust. The Mediator is the Servant of the Father, Isa. 42.1. shows his Commission from him, acts in his Name, and pleads his command for his Justification, John 10.18, 36