N03796:260
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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10. Scoffers at Religion, that make a Scorn at precise Walking, and mock at the Messengers and diligent Servants of the Lord, and at their holy Profession, and make themselves mercy with the Weakness and Failings of Professors: Hear, ye Despisers, hear your dreadful Doom, Prov. 19.29. 2 Chron. 36.16. Prov. 3.24.
Sinner, consider diligently whether thou art not to be found in one of these Ranks! for if this be thy Case, thou art in the Gall of Bitterness, and Bond of Iniquity; for all these do carry their Marks in their Foreheads, and are undoubtedly the Sons of Death;
And if so, the Lord pity our poor Congregations. Oh, how little a Number would be left, when these ten Sorts are left out? Alas, on how many Doors, on how many Faces must we write, Lord, have Mercy upon us! Sirs, what shift do you make to keep up your Confidence of your good Estate, when God from Heaven declares against you, and pronounces you in a State of Damnation? I would reason with you, as God with them; how canst thou say, I am not polluted? Jer. 2.23: See thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done. Man, is not thy Conscience privy to thy tricks of Deceit, to thy Chamber-pranks, to thy Way of lying? Yea, are not thy Friends, thy Family, thy Neighbours, Witnesses to thy profane Neglects of God's Worship, to thy covetous Practices, to thy envious and malicious Carriage! May not they point at thee, as thou goest, There goes a gaming Prodigal; There goes a drunken Nabal, a Companion of Evil-doers; There goes a Railer or a Scoffer, a loose Liver, Beloved, God hath written it, as with a Sunbeam, in the Book out of which you must be judged, that these are not the Spots of his Children, and that none such (except renewed by converting Grace) shall ever escape the Damnation of Hell.