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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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Come then, Arise, and attend thy nearest Concernments. Tell me, Whither art thou going? What! wilt thou live in such a Course, wherein every Act is a Step to Perdition; and thou dost not know, but the next Night thou mayest make thy Bed in Hell▪ Oh, if thou hast a Spark of Reason, consider, and turn, and hearken to thy very Friend, •o would therefore show thee thy present Misery, • at thou mightest in time make thine Escape, and • eternally happy.
Come then, Arise, and attend thy nearest Concernments. Tell me, Whither art thou going? What! wilt thou live in such a Course, wherein every Act is a Step to Perdition; and thou dost not know, but the next Night thou mayest make thy Bed in Hell▪ Oh, if thou hast a Spark of Reason, consider, and turn, and hearken to thy very Friend, •o would therefore shew thee thy present Misery, • at thou mightest in time make thine Escape, and • eternally happy.
Hear what the Lord saith, Fear ye not me? saith the Lord. Will ye not tremble at my Presence? Jer. 5.21. O Sinners! Do ye make light of the Wrath to come? Matth. 3.7. I am sure there is a Time coming, when you will not make light of it. Why the very Devils do believe and tremble, James 2.19. What, You more hardened than they! Will you run upon the Edge of the Rock? Will you play at the Hole of the Asp? Will you put your Hand upon the Cockatrice's Den? Will you dance about the Fire till you are burnt? or dally with devouring Wrath as if you were at a point of Indifferency, whether you did escape it, or endure it? O madness of Folly Solomon's Mad-man, that casteth Firebrands, and Arrows and Death, and saith, Am I not in Jest?