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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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Sinner, Methinks this should go like a Dagger to thine Heart, to know that God is thine Enemy. Oh, ⟨p. 84⟩whither wilt thou go? Where wilt thou shelter thee? There is no hope for thee, unless thou lay down thy Weapons, and sue out thy Pardon, and get Christ to stand thy Friend, and make thy Peace. If it were not for this, thou mightest go into some howling Wilderness, and there pine in Sorrow, and run mad for Anguish of Heart, and horrible Despair. But in Christ there is a Possibility of Mercy for thee, yea, a Proffer of Mercy for thee, that thou mayest have God to be more for thee, than he is now against thee. But if thou wilt not forsake thy Sins, nor turn thoroughly, and to Purpose, unto God, by a sound Conversion, the Wrath of God abideth on thee, and he proclaims himself to be against thee, as in the Prophet, Ezek. 5.8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God Behold I, even I, am against thee.
I. His Face is against thee, Psalm 34.15. The Fac• of the Lord is against them that do Evil, to cut off th• Remembrance of them. Woe unto them whom Go• shall set his Face against. When he did but loo• upon the Host of the Egyptians, how terrible was th• Consequence, Ezek. 14.8. I will set my Face against that Man, and will make him a Sign, and Proverb, a• will cut him off from the Midst of my People, and yo• shall know that I am the Lord. 2. His Heart is again thee: He hateth all the Workers of Iniquity. Man, d• not thine Heart tremble, to think of thy being an Object God's Hatred?