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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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Poor Sinner! thou art fallen off from God, and •st engaged his Power and Wrath against thee: ⟨p. 113⟩Yet know, that of his abundant Grace, He doth offer to be again thy God in Christ, 2 Cor. 6.17, 18. What sayest thou, Man? Wilt thou have the Lord for thy God? Why take this Counsel and thou shalt have him, come to him by his Christ, John 14.6. Renounce the Idols of thine own Pleasures, Gain, Reputation, 1 Thess. 1.9. Let those be pulled out of the Throne, and let God's Interest be uppermost in thine Heart: Take him as God, to be Chief in thine Affections, Estimations, Intentions; for he •ill not endure to have any set above him, P•m. 1.24. Psalm 73.25. In a Word, thou must take him in all his Personal Relations, and in all his Essential Perfections.
First, In all his Personal Relations. God the Father must be taken for thy Father, Jer. 3.4, 19, 22. Oh, come to him with the Prodigal, Father, I have sinned against Heaven, and in thy Sight, and am not worthy to be called thy Son; but since of thy wonderful Mercy, thou art pleased to take me, that am of myself a Dog, a Swine, a Devil, to be thy Child; I solemnly take thee for my Father, commend myself to thy Care, and trust to thy Providence, and cast my Burden on thy Shoulders, I depend on thy Provision, and submit to thy Corrections, and trust under the Shadow of thy Wings, and hide in thy Chambers, and fly to thy Name. I renounce all Confidence in myself, I repose my Confidence in thee, I depose my Concernments with thee: I will be for thee, and no other. Again, God the Son must be taken for thy Saviour, for thy Redeemer and Righteousness,