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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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Hear then, O Sinner! and as ever thou wouldst be converted and saved, embrace this following Counsel.
Direct. I Set it down with thyself, as an undoubted Truth, that it is impossible for thee ever to get to Heaven in ⟨p. 104⟩this thy unconverted State. Can any other but Christ save thee? And he tells thee, he will never do it, except thou be regenerated and converted, Matth. 18.3. John 3.3. Doth he not keep the Keys of Heaven? And canst thou get in without his leave? As thou must, if ever thou comest thither in thy natural Condition, without a sound and through Renovation?
Direct. I Set it down with thyself, as an undoubted Truth, that it is impossible for thee ever to get to Heaven in ⟨p. 104⟩this thy unconverted State. Can any other but Christ save thee? And he tells thee, he will never do it, except thou be regenerated and converted, Matth. 18.3. John 3.3. Doth he not keep the Keys of Heaven? And canst thou get in without his leave? As thou must, if ever thou comest thither in thy natural Condition, without a sound and thorow Renovation?
Direct. II. Labour to get a thorough Sight and lively Sense and Feeling of thy Sins. Till Men are weary and heavy laden, and pricked at the Heart, and stark sick of Sin, they will not come unto Christ, in his Way, for Ease and Cure; nor to purpose enquire, What shall we do?