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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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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? Matth. 11.28. Acts 2.37. Matth. 9.12. They must set themselves down for dead Men before they will come unto Christ, that they may have Life, John 5.40. Labour therefore to set all thy Sins in Order before thee; never be afraid to look upon them, but let thy Spirit make diligent Search, Psal. 77.6 Enquire into thine Heart and into thy Life; enter into a thorough Examination of thy self, and of all thy Ways, Psalm 119.59. that thou mayest make a full Discovery: and call in the Help of God's Spirit, in the Sense of thine own Inability hereunto, for it is his proper Work to convince of Sin, John 16.8. Spread all before the Face of thy Conscience, till thine Heart and Eyes be set abroach. Leave not striving with God, and thine own Soul, till it cry out under the Sense of thy Sins, as the enlightened Jailer, What must I do to be saved? Acts 16.30. To this Purpose,
Direct. II. Labour to get a thorow 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? Matth. 11.28. Acts 2.37. Matth. 9.12. They must set themselves down for dead Men before they will come unto Christ, that they may have Life,