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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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Dedication: To all the Ignorant, Carnal, and Ungodly, who are Lovers of Pleasure more than God, and…
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O turn not our Complaints to God against you; Turn us not from beseeching you to be reconciled to God, to tell him you will not be reconciled. ⟨p. ix⟩Force us not to say, That we earnestly invited you to the Heavenly Feast, and you would not come. Force us not to say, That we earnestly invited you; Lord, we could have born all our Labour and Sufferings for them, much easier, if they would but have yielded to thy Grace. But it was they themselves that broke our Hearts, that lost our Labour, that made us Preach and entreat in vain: It was easier to Preach without Maintenance than without Success. It was they that were worse to us than all the Persecutors in the World. How oft would we have gathered them but they would not, but are ungathered still? How many Holy, Faithful Ministers have I known these Eleven Years last past, who have lived in pining Poverty and Want, and hardly by Charity got Bread and Clothing, and yet if they could but have truly said, (Lord, the Sermons which I preach privately and in Danger, have won many Souls to thee) It would have made all their Burden easy. But I tell thee, senseless and Impenitent Sinner, thou that deniest God thy Heart, and them thy Conversion, which was the End of all their Labours, hast dealt much more cruelly with them, than they that denied the Levite Bread.
O turn not our Complaints to God against you; Turn us not from beseeching you to be reconciled to God, to tell him you will not be reconciled. ⟨p. ix⟩Force us not to say, That we earnestly invited you to the Heavenly Feast, and you would not come. Force us not to say, That we earnestly invited you; Lord, we could have born all our Labour and Sufferings for them, much easier, if they would but have yielded to thy Grace. But it was they themselves that broke our Hearts, that lost our Labour, that made us Preach and intreat in vain: It was easier to Preach without Maintenance than without Success. It was they that were worse to us than all the Persecutors in the World. How oft would we have gathered them but they would not, but are ungathered still? How many Holy, Faithful Ministers have I known these Eleven Years last past, who have lived in pining Poverty and Want, and hardly by Charity got Bread and Clothing, and yet if they could but have truly said, (Lord, the Sermons which I preach privately and in Danger, have won many Souls to thee) It would have made all their Burden easy. But I tell thee, senseless and Impenitent Sinner, thou that deniest God thy Heart, and them thy Conversion, which was the End of all their Labours, hast dealt much more cruelly with them, than they that denied the Levite Bread.