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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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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.
8. The predominant Love of the World. This is th• sure Evidence of an unsanctified Heart, Mark 10.31 1 John 2.15.
But how close doth this Sin lurk oft-times under fair Covert of forward Profession? Luk. 18.14 Yea ⟨p. 73⟩such a Power of Deceit is there in this Sin, that many times, when every Body else can see the Man's Worldliness, and Covetousness, he cannot see it himself; but hath so many Colours, and Excuses, and Pretences for his Eagerness on the World, that he doth blind his own Eyes, and perish in his Self-Deceit. How many Professors be here, with whom the World hath more of their Hearts and Affections than Christ Who mind earthly things, and thereby are evidently after the Flesh, and like to end in Destruction?