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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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Shall I ring his Knell, or read his Sentence, or sound in his Ear the terrible Trump of God's Judgments, that one would think should make both his Ears tingle, and strike him into Be••azzar's Fit; even to appa•e his Countenance, and loose his Joints, and make his Knees smite one against another? Yet alas! he perceives me not, he hath no Ears to hear. Or shall I call up all the Daughters of Music, and sing the Song of Moses, and of the Lamb? Yet he will not be stirred. Shall I allure him with the joyful Sound, and the lovely Song, and glad Tidings of the Gospel? With the most sweet and inviting Calls, Comforts, Cordials of the Divine Promises, so exceeding great and precious? It will not affect him savingly, unless I could find him Ears, Matth. 13.15. as well as tell him the News.
Shall I ring his Knell, or read his Sentence, or sound in his Ear the terrible Trump of God's Judgments, that one would think should make both his Ears •tingle, and strike him into Be••azzar's Fit; even to appa•e his Countenance, and loose his Joints, and make his Knees smite one against another? Yet alas! he perceives me not, he hath no Ears to hear. Or shall I call up all the Daughters of Musick, and sing the Song of Moses, and of the Lamb? Yet he will not be stirred. Shall I allure him with the joyful Sound, and the louely Song, and glad Tidings of the Gospel? With the most sweet and inviting Calls, Comforts, Cordials of the Divine Promises, so exceeding great and precious? It will not affect him savingly, unless I could find him Ears, Matth. 13.15. as well as tell him the News.
Shall I set before him the Feast of fa• Things, the Wine of Wisdom, the Bread of God, the Tree of Life, the hidden Maa: He hath no Appetite for them, no mind to them,