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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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4 16. Come thou Spirit of the most High; here is a House for thee, here is a Temple for thee; here do thou rest forever; dwell here, and rest here: Lo I give up the Possession to thee, full Possession. I send thee the Keys of my Heart, that all may be for thy Use, that thou mayest put thy Goods, thy Grace into every Room. I give up the Use of all to thee, that every Faculty, and every Member may be thine Instrument, to work Righteousness, and do the Will of my Father which is in Heaven.
Secondly, In all his essential Perfections. Consider how the Lord hath revealed himself to you in his Word: Will you take him as such a God? O Sinner, here's the blessedest News that ever came to the Sons of Men: The Lord will be thy God, Gen. 17.7: Rev. 21.3. if thou wilt but close with him in his Excellencies. Wilt thou have the merciful, the gracious, the Sin pardoning God to be thy God? Oh, yes (saith the Sinner) I am undone else But he farther tells thee, I am the holy and sin-hating God: If thou wilt be owned as one of my People, thou must be ⟨p. 115⟩holy, 1 Pet. 1.16. holy in Heart, holy in Life. Thou must put away all thine Iniquities, be they never so near, never so natural, never so necessary to the maintaining thy fleshly Interest. Unless thou wilt be at Defiance with Sin, I cannot be thy God. Cast out the Leaven, put away the Evil of thy Doings, cease to do Evil, learn to do well, or else I can have nothing to do with thee, Isa. 1.16, 17.18. Bring forth mine Enemies, or there is no Peace to be had with me: What doth thine Heart answer? Lord I desire to have thee as such a God; I desire to be holy, as thou art holy, to be made Partaker of thy Holiness. I love thee, not only for thy Goodness and Mercy, but for thy Holiness and Purity I take thy Holiness for my Happiness. Oh, be to me a Fountain of Holiness, set on me the Stamp and Impress of thy Holiness, I will thankfully part with all my Sins at thy Command: My wilful Sins I do forthwith forsake; and for my Infirmities that I cannot get rid of, tho' I would, I will strive against them in the Use of the Means. I detest them, and will pray and war against them, and never let them have quiet Rest in my Soul. Beloved, whosoever of you will thus accept of the Lord for his God, he shall have him.