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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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Dedication: To all the Ignorant, Carnal, and Ungodly, who are Lovers of Pleasure more than God, and…
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And alas, it is possible thou mayest hear some of the Tribe of Levi (or rather of Cain) deriding this Serious Godliness as mere Hypocrisy, Fanaticism, and Self-conceitedness: As if you must be no better than the Devil's Slaves, lest you be proud in thinking that you are better than they; that is, you must go with them to Hell, lest in Heaven ye be proud Hypocrites, for thinking yourselves happier than they.
And alas, it is possible thou mayest hear some of the Tribe of Levi (or rather of Cain) deriding this Serious Godliness as mere Hypocrisy, Fantaticism, and Self-conce•tedness: As if you must be no better than the Devil's Slaves, lest you be proud in thinking that you are better than they; that is, you must go with them to Hell, lest in Heaven ye be proud Hypocrites, for thinking yourselves happier than they.
It may be they will tell you, that this talk of Conversion is fitter for Pagans and Infidels to hear, than Christian and Protestants. Because such Mens Big looks or Coats may make the Poison the easier taken down; I will entreat thee but as before God to answer these following Questions, or to get them answered, and then judge whether it be they or we that will deceive thee: And whether that as Men use to talk against Learning that have none themselves, so such Men prate not against Conversion and the Spirit of God, because they have no such thing themselves.
It may be they will tell you, that this talk of Conversion is fitter for Pagans and Infidels to hear, than Christian and Protestants. Because such Mens Biglooks or Coats may make the Poyson the easier taken down; I will intreat thee but as before God to answer these following Questions, or to get them answered, and then judge whether it be they or we that will deceive thee: And whether that as Men use to talk against Learning that have none themselves, so such Men prate not against Conversion and the Spirit of God, because they have no such thing themselves.