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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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Just thus is the wilful Destruction of ungodly Men. The God that made them beseecheth them, and crying out to them, as Paul to the distracted Jailer, when about to murder himself, Do thy self no harm. The Ministers of Christ forewarn them, and follow them, and fain would have them back; but alas! no Expostulations nor Obtestations will prevail, but Men will hurry themselves into Perdition, while Pity itself looketh on.
Just thus is the wilful Destruction of ungodly Men. The God that made them beseecheth them, and crying out to them, as Paul to the distracted Jaylor, when about to murder himself, Do thy self no harm. The Ministers of Christ forewarn them, and follow them, and fain would have them back; but alas! no Expostulations nor Obtestations will prevail, but Men will hurry themselves into Perdition, while Pity itself looketh on.
What shall I say? Would it not grieve a Person of any Humanity, if in the Time of a reigning Plague he should have a Receipt (as one said well) that would infallibly cure all the Country, and recover the most hopeless Patients, and yet his Friends and Neighbours should die by the Hundreds about him, because they would not use it? Men and Brethren, tho' you carry the certain Symptoms of Death in your Faces, yet I have a Receipt that will cure you •ll, that will cure infallibly; follow but these few Directions, and if you do not then win Heaven, I will be content to lose it.
What shall I say? Would it not grieve a Person of any Humanity, if in the Time of a reigning Plague he should have a Receipt (as one said well) that would infallibly cure all the Country, and recover the most hopeless Patients, and yet his Friends and Neighbours should die by the Hundreds about him, because they would not use it? Men and Brethren, tho' you carry the certain Symptons of Death in your Faces, yet I have a Receipt that will cure you •ll, that will cure infallibly; follow but these few Directions, and if you do not then win Heaven, I will be content to lose it.