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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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His poor Beast would say, Lord, must I carry him upon his wicked Designs? No, I will break his Bones, I will end his Days rather, if I may have but Leave from thee. A wicked Man the Earth groans under him, and Hell groans for him, till Death satisfies both, and unburdens the Earth, and stops the Mouth of Hell with him. While the Lord of Hosts is against thee, be sure the Hosts of the Lord are against thee, and all the Creatures (as it were) up in Arms, till upon a Man's Conversion, the Controversy being taken up between God and him, he makes a Covenant of Peace with the Creatures for him, Job 5.22, 29, 24. Hosea 2.18, 19, 20.
III. The Roaring-Lion hath his full Power upon thee, 1 Pet. 5.8. Thou art fast in the Paw of that Lion, that is greedy to devour: In the Snare of the Devil, led captive by him at his Will, 2 Tim. 2.26. This is the Spirit that worketh in the Children of Disobedience, Eph. 2.2. His Drudges they are, and his Lusts they do. He is the Ruler of the Darkness of this World, Eph. 6.12. that is, of ignorant Sinners that live in Darkness. You pity the poor Indians, that worship the Devil for their God, but little think that 'tis your own Case. Why 'tis the common Misery of all the Unsanctified, that the Devil is their God, 2 Cor. 4.4. Not that they do intend to do him Homage and Worship; they will be ready to defy him, and him that should say so by them; but all this while they serve him, and come and go at his Beck, and live under his Government: His Servants you are, to whom you yield your selves to obey,