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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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Meditate of the Numerousness of thy Sins. Davi• Heart failed when he thought of this, and considere• that he had more Sins than Hairs, Psalm 40.12. Thi• made him cry out upon the Multitude of God's tender Mercies, Psalm 51.1. The loathsome Carcass dot• not more hatefully swarm with crawling Worm• than an unsanctified Soul with filthy Lusts; the• fill the Head, the Heart, the Eyes and Mouth of him Look backward; Where was ever the place, what wa• ever the time, in which thou didst not sin? Lo• inward: What Part or Power canst thou find in Soul • ⟨p. 105⟩body but 'tis poisoned with Sin? What Duty dost thou ever perform, into which Poison is not shed? Oh, how great is the Sum of thy Debts, who hast been all thy Life long running upon the Books, and never didst, nor canst pay off one Penny? Look over the Sin of thy Nature, and all its cursed Brood, the Sins of thy Life; call to Mind thy Omissions, Commissions, the Sins of thy Thoughts, of thy Words, of thine Actions, the Sins of thy Youth, the Sins of thy Years, &c. Be not like a desperate Bankrupt, that is afraid to look over his Books. Read the Records of Conscience carefully. These Books must be opened sooner or later, Rev. 20.12.
Meditate of the Numerousness of thy Sins. Davi• Heart failed when he thought of this, and considere• that he had more Sins than Hairs, Psalm 40.12. Thi• made him cry out upon the Multitude of God's tender Mercies,