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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 upon the Defilement and Deformity of • 'Tis as black as Hell, the very Image and Likene• of the Devil drawn upon the Soul, 1 John 3.8, 1• it would more affright thee to see thy self in t• ⟨p. 107⟩hateful Deformity of thy Nature, than to see the Devil. There is no Mire so unclean, no Vomit so loathsome, no Carcass or Carrion to offensive, no Plague or Leprosy so noisome, as Sin, in which thou art all enrolled, and covered with its odious Filth, whereby thou art rendered more displeasing to the pure and holy Nature of the glorious God, than the most filthy Object, composed of whatever is hateful to all thy Senses, can be to thee, John 15.15, 16. Couldst thou take up a Toad into thy Bosom? Couldst thou cherish it, and take Delight in it? Why, thou art as contrary to the pure and perfect Holiness of the Divine Nature, and as loathsome as that is to thee, Matth. 3 33. till thou art purified by the Blood of Jesus, and the Power of renewing Grace.
Meditate upon the Defilement and Deformity of • 'Tis as black as Hell, the very Image and Likene• of the Devil drawn upon the Soul, 1 John 3.8, 1• it would more affright thee to see thy self in t• ⟨p. 107⟩hateful Deformity of thy Nature, than to see the Devil. There is no Mire so unclean, no Vomit so loathsom, no Carcase or Carrion to offensive, no Plague or Leprosy so noisom, as Sin, in which thou art all inrolled, and covered with its odious Filth, whereby thou art rendered more displeasing to the pure and holy Nature of the glorious God, than the most filthy Object, composed of whatever is hateful to all thy Senses, can be to thee,