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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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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, Acts 3.26. to make an end of Sin, Dan 9.24 So that he should destroy his own Design• and nullify his Offices, to save Men abiding in thei• unconverted State.
Application. Arise then; what meanest thou, O Sleeper? Awake, O secure Sinner, lest thou be consumed in thine Iniquities Say, as the •epers, If w• sit here, we shall die, 2 Kings 7.3, 4. Verily, it is no• more certain that thou art now out of Hell, tha• that thou shalt speedily be in it, except thou repent and be converted; there is but this one Door for the• to escape by: Arise then, O Sluggard, and shake o• thine Excuses; How long wilt thou slumber, an• fold thine Hands to Sleep, Prov. 6.10, 11