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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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Oh, study thy Misery, till thy Heart do cry out for Christ, as earnestly as ever a drowning Man did for a Boat, or the Wounded for a Chirurgeon: Men must come to see the Danger, and feel the Smart of their deadly Sores and Sickness, or else Christ will be to them a Physician of no Value, Matth. 9.12. Then the Man-slayer hastens to the City of Refuge, when pursued by the Avenger of Blood. Men must be even forced and fired out of themselves, or else they will not come to Christ. 'Twas Distress and Extremity that made the Prodigal ••nk of returning, Luke 15.16, 17. While Laodicea thinks herself rich, increased in Goods, in need of Nothing, there is little Hope. She must be deeply convinced of ⟨p. 110⟩her Wretchedness, Blindness, Poverty, Nakedness, before she will come to Christ for his Gold, Raiment, Eye salve, Rev. 3.17, 18 Therefore hold the Eyes of Conscience open, amplify thy Misery as much as possible, do not fly the Sighs of it, for fear it should fill thee with Terror. The Sense of thy Misery is but (as it were) the Supputation of the Wound, which is necessary to the Cure. Better fear the Torments that abide thee now, than feel them hereafter.
Oh, study thy Misery, till thy Heart do cry out for Christ, as earnestly as ever a drowning Man did for a Boat, or the Wounded for a Chirurgeon: Men must come to see the Danger, and feel the Smart of their deadly Sores and Sickness, or else Christ will be to them a Physician of no Value, Matth. 9.12. Then the Man-slayer hastens to the City of Refuge, when pursued by the Avenger of Blood. Men must be even forced and fired out of themselves, or else they will not come to Christ. 'Twas Distress and Extremity that made the Prodigal ••nk of returning, Luke 15.16, 17. While Laodicea thinks herself rich, encreased in Goods, in need of Nothing, there is little Hope. She must be deeply convinced of