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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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Oh! think of thy Case in Time. Canst thou not think of that Threat without trembling, Ye shall […] in your Sins! John 8.24. Oh! bettor were it for the […] die in a Goal, die in a Ditch, in a Dungeon, than di• in thy Sins. If Death, as it will take away all thy other Comforts, would take away thy Sins too, it were some Mitigation; but thy Sins will follow thee when thy Friends leave thee, and all worldly Enjoyment• shake Hands with thee: Thy Sins will not die with thee, 2 Cor. 5.10. Rev. 20.12. as a Prisoner's other Debts will; but they will to Judgment with ⟨p. 93⟩thee, there to be thine Accusers, and they will to Hell with thee, there to be thy tormentors. Better to have so many Fiends and Furies about thee, than thy Sins to fall upon thee, and fasten in thee. Oh, the work that these will make thee! Oh look over thy Debts in time; how much art thou in the Books of every one of God's Laws? How is every one of God's Commandments ready to arrest thee, and take […] by the Throat, for innumerable Bonds that it h• •on thee? What wilt thou do then, when they […] all together lay in against thee? Hold open the Eyes of Conscience to consider this, that thou mayest despair of thyself, and be driven to Christ, and fly for Refuge to lay hold upon the Hope that is set before thee, Heb. 6.18.
Oh! think of thy Case in Time. Canst thou not think of that Threat without trembling, Ye shall 〈…〉 in your Sins! John 8.24. Oh! bettor were it for the 〈…〉 die in a Goal, die in a Ditch, in a Dungeon, than di• in thy Sins. If Death, as it will take away all thy other Comforts, would take away thy Sins too, it were some Mitigation; but thy Sins will follow thee when thy Friends leave thee, and all worldly Enjoyment shake Hands with thee: Thy Sins will not die with thee,