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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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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? Rom. 8 5. Philip. 3, 19. Yet ask these Men, and they will tell you confidently, they prize Christ above all, God forbid else! And see not their own Earthly-mindedness, for Want of a narrow Observation of the Workings of their own Hearts. Did they but carefully search, they would quickly find, that their greatest Content is in the World, Luke 12.19. and their greatest Care, and main Endeavour to get and secure the World; which are the certain Discovery of an unconverted Sinner. May the professing Part of the World take earnest heed, that they perish not by the Hand of this Sin unobserved. Men may be, and often are kept off from Christ, as effectually, by the inordinate Love of lawful Comforts, as by the most unlawful Courses, Matth. 22.5. Luke 14: 18, 19, 20, 24.
9 Reigning Malice and Envy against those that disrespect them, or are injurious them,