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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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Now then attend, Set thine Heart unto all that I seal• testify unto thee in this Day; for it is not a vain Thing, i• is your Life, Deut. 32.46. That is the End of all that has been spoken hitherto, to bring you to set upon turning, and making use of God's Means for you• Conversion. I would not trouble you, nor torment you before the Time, with the Fore-thoughts of you• Eternal Misery, but in order to your making you• Escape. Were you shut up under your present Misery, without Remedy, it were but Mercy (as one speaks) to let you alone, that you might take i• that little poor Comfort that you are capable of, he• in this World: But you may yet be happy, if yo• do not wilfully refuse the Means of your Recovery Behold, I hold open the Door unto you; arise, tak• your Flight: I set the Way of Life before you: wal• in it, and you shall live, and not die, Deut. 30.1• Jer. 9 16. It pities me to think you should be you• own Murderers, and throw yourselves headlong when God and Men cry out to you, as Peter, in an• there Case, to his Master, Spare thyself. A noble Vi• gin, that attended the Court of Spain, was wicked ⟨p. 103⟩ravished by the King, and hereupon exciting the Duke, her Father, to Revenge, he called in the Moors to his help; who, when they had executed his Design, miserably wasted and spoiled the Country, which this Virgin laying so exceedingly to Heart, shut her self up in a Tower belonging to her Father's House, and desired her Father and Mother might be called forth, and bewailing to them her own Wretchedness, that she should have occasioned so much Misery and Desolation to her Country for the satisfying of her Revenge, she told them she was resolved to be avenged upon herself. Her Father and Mother besought her to pity her self and them, but Nothing could prevail, but she took her Leave of them, and threw her self off the Battlements, and so perished before their Faces.