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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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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, John 9.40.
11. The prevailing Love of Pleasure. 2 Tim. 3.4. This is a black Mark: When Men give the Flesh the Liberty that it craves, and pamper and please it, and do not deny and restrain it; when their great Delight is in gratifying their Bellies, and pleasing their Senses▪ Whatever Appearance they may have of Religion, all is unsound, Rom. 16.18. Titus 3.3. A Flesh-pleasing Life cannot be pleasing to God; They that are Christ's have crucified the Flesh, and are careful to cross it, and keep it under, as their Enemy, Gal. 5 24. 1 Cor. 9.25, 26, 27.