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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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Could I bring Paradise into View, or represent the Kingdom of Heaven to as much Advantage as the Tempter did the Kingdoms of the World, and all the Glory thereof to our Saviour; or could I uncover the face of the Deep, and devouring Gulf of Tophet, in all its Terrors, and open the Gates of the Infernal ⟨p. 79⟩Furnace; alas, he hath no Eyes to see it, Matth. 1• 14, 15. Could I paint out the Beauties of Holiness or Glory of the Gospel to the life; or could I bring above board the more than diabolical Deformity and Ugliness of Sin, be can no more judge of the Loveliness and Beauty of the one, nor the Filthiness and Hatefulness of the other, than the blind Man of Colours. He is alienated from the Life of God, thro• the Ignorance that is in him, because of the Blind•••s of his Heart, Eph. 4.18. He neither doth, not can know the Things of God, because they are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor. 2.14. His Eyes cannot be savingly opened but by converting Grace, Acts 26.16. He is a Child of Darkness, and walks in Darkness, 1 John 1.6. Yea, the Light in him is Darkness, Matth. 6.2, 3.
Could I bring Paradise into View, or represent the Kingdom of Heaven to as much Advantage as the Tempter did the Kingdoms of the World, and all the Glory thereof to our Saviour; or could I uncover the face of the Deep, and devouring Gulph of Tophet, in all its Terrors, and open the Gates of the Infernal ⟨p. 79⟩Furnace; alas, he hath no Eyes to see it, Matth. 1• 14, 15. Could I paint out the Beauties of Holiness or Glory of the Gospel to the life; or could I bring above board the more than diabolical Deformity and Ugliness of Sin, be can no more judge of the Loveliness and Beauty of the one, nor the Filthiness and Hatefulness of the other, than the blind Man of Colours. He is alienated from the Life of God, thro the Ignorance that is in him, because of the Blinds of his Heart,