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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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Chap. V. Showing the Miseries of the Unconverted
Chap. V. Shewing the Miseries of the Unconverted
SO unspeakably dreadful is the Case of every Unconverted Soul, that I have sometimes thought, if we could, but convince Men that they •e yet ⟨p. 78⟩unregenerate, the Work were upon the Matter done. But I sadly experience, that such a Spirit of sloth and slumber (Rom. 11.8. Matth. 13.15.) possesseth the unsanctified, that tho' they be convinced that they are yet unconverted, yet they oft-times carelessly sit still; and what through the Avocation of sensual Pleasures, or Hurry of Worldly Business, or Noise and Clamour of Earthly Cares, and Lusts, and Affections, Luke 8.14. the Voice of Conscience is drowned, and Men go no farther than some cold Wishes, and general Purposes of repenting and amending, Acts 24.25.
SO unspeakably dreadful is the Case of every Unconverted Soul, that I have sometimes thought, if we could, but convince Men that they •e yet ⟨p. 78⟩unregenerate, the Work were upon the Matter done. But I sadly experience, that such a Spirit of sloth and slumber (