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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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Reader, doth nothing of this touch thee? Art thou in none of the fore-mentioned Ranks? Oh, ⟨p. 74⟩search and search again; take thy Heart solemnly to task. Woe unto thee, if after all thy Profession, thou shouldest be found under the Power of Ignorance, lost in Formality, drowned in Earthly Mindedness, envenomed with Malice, exalted in an Opinion of thine own Righteousness, leavened with Hypocrisy, and carnal Ends in God's Service, embittered against •ness; this would be a sad Discovery, that all thy Religion were in vain. But I must proceed,
Reader, doth nothing of this touch thee? Art thou in none of the fore-mentioned Ranks? Oh, ⟨p. 74⟩search and search again; take thy Heart solemnly to task. Wo unto thee, if after all thy Profession, thou shouldest be found under the Power of Ignorance, lost in Formality, drowned in Earthly Mindedness, envenomed with Malice, exalted in an Opinion of thine own Righteousness, leavened with Hypocrisy, and carnal Ends in God's Service, imbittered against •ness; this would be a sad Discovery, that all thy Religon were in vain. But I must proceed,
10. Unmortified Pride. When Men love the Praise of Men, more than the Praise of God; and set their Hearts upon Men's Esteem, Applause and Approbation, it is most certain they are yet in their Sins, and Strangers to true Conversion, John 12.43. Gal. 1.10. When Men see not, nor complain, nor groan under the Pride of their own Hearts, it is a Sign they are stark dead in Sin: Oh how secretly doth this Sin live and reign in many Hearts, and they know it not, but are very Strangers to themselves,