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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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II. Against his Word: We need not say, Who shall ascend into Heaven, to bring down Christ from above? • who shall descend into the Deep, to bring up Christ from beneath? The Word is nigh us, Rom. 10.6, […] Are you agreed that Christ shall end the Co• Hear then his own Words, Except you be […] you shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Hea• Matth. 18.3. You must be born again, John 3.7. If I wash thee not, thou hast no Part in me, John 13.8. Repent, or perish, Luke 13.3. One Word, one would think, were enough from Christ; but how oft and earnestly doth he reiterate it? Verily, verily, verily, Except a Man be born again, he shall not see the Kingdom of God, John 3.3, 5 Yea, he doth not only assert, but prove the Necessity of the New birth, viz. from the Fleshliness and Filthiness of Man's First birth, John 3.6. by Reason of which, Man is n• more fit for Heaven, than the Beast is for the Chamber of the King's Presence. And wilt thou yet believe thine own presumptuous Confidence, directly against Christ's Words? He must go quite against the Law o• his Kingdom, and Rule of his Judgment to Save thee in this Estate.
II. Against his Word: We need not say, Who shall ascend into Heaven, to bring down Christ from above? • who shall descend into the Deep, to bring up Christ from beneath? The Word is nigh us, Rom. 10.6, 〈…〉 Are you agreed that Christ shall end the Co Hear then his own Words, Except you be you shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Hea