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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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6. A secret Enmity against the Strictness of Religion. Many moral Persons, punctual in their formal Devotion, have yet a bitter Enmity against Preciseness, and hate the Life and Power of Religion, Philip. 3.6. compared with Acts 9.1. They like not this Forwardness, nor that Men should keep such a Stir in Religion: They condemn the Strictness of Religion, as Singularity, Indiscretion, and intemperate Zeal: And with them, a lively Preacher, or lively Christian, is but a Heady-fellow. These Men love not Holiness, as Holiness (for then they would love the Height of Holiness,) and therefore are undoubtedly rotten at Heart, whatever good Opinion they have of themselves.
7. The Resting in a certain Pitch of Religion. When they have so much as will save them (as they suppose) they look no further, and so show themselves short of true Grace, which will ever put Men upon aspiring to further Perfection, Philip., 3.13. Prov. 4 18.
7. The Resting in a certain Pitch of Religion. When they have so much as will save them (as they suppose) they look no further, and so shew themselves short of true Grace, which will ever put Men upon aspiring to further Perfection, Philip., 3.13. Prov. 4 18.