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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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First, His Justice is like a flaming Sword, • sheathed against thee. If I whet my glittering Sw• and my Hand take hold on Judgment, I will […] Vengeance to mine Adversaries, and will reward t• that hate me. I will make mine Arrows drunk w• Blood, &c. Deut. 32.41, 42. So exact is Justice that it will by no Means clear the Guilty, Exod. • • God will not discharge thee, he will not •• ⟨p. 85⟩•e guiltless, Exod. 20.7. but will require the whole •bt in Person of thee, unless thou can make a Scrip•e claim to Christ, and his Satisfaction. When •e enlightened Sinner looks on Justice, and sees the •llance in which he must be weighed, and the Sword […] which he must be executed, he feels an Earthquake in his Breast: But Satan keeps this out of ought, and persuades the Soul, while he can, that […] Lord is all made up of Mercy, and so lulls it a•ep in Sin. Divine Justice is very strict; it must •ave Satisfaction to the utmost Farthing; it denoun•th Indignation and Wrath, Tribulation and Anguish, • every Soul that doth evil, Rom. 2.8, 9. It curseth •very one that continueth not in every thing that is •itten in the Law, to do it,