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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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To be a Terror to Evil doers, and a Praise to them that do well, Rom. 14.34. He is a Minister of God, a Revenger to execute Wrath on him that doth Evil. Now, ⟨p. 60⟩should Christ favour the ungodly, (so continuing) and take those to reign with him that would not that he should reign over them? Luke 19.27. this were quite against his Office; He therefore reigns, that he may put his Enemies under his Feet, 1 Cor. 15.24. Now, should he lay them in his Bosom, he should cross the end of his regal power. It belongs to Christ, as a King, to subdue Hearts, and stay the Lusts of his chosen, Psalm 45.5. and 110.3. What King would take the rebels, in open hostility, into his Court? What were this, but to betray life, kingdom, Government, and all together? It Christ be a King, he must have Homage, Honours, Subjection, &c. Mal. 1.6. Now, to save Men while in their natural enmity, were to obscure his Dignity, lose his Authority, bring a Contempt on his Government, and sell his dear bought Rights for nought.
Again, as Christ should not be a Prince, so neither a Saviour, if he should do this; for his Salvation is spiritual: He is called Jesus, because he saves his People from their Sins, Matth. 1.21. so that should he save them in their Sins, he should be neither Lord nor Jesus. To save Men from the Punishment, and not from the Power of Sin, were to do his Work by halves, and be an imperfect Saviour. His Office, a• the Deliverer, is, to turn away Ungodliness from Jacob Rom 11.26. He is sent to bless Men, in turning ••o their Iniquities,