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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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Again, He tells you, I am the all-sufficient God, Gen 17.1. Will you lay All at my Feet, and give it up to my Dispose, and take me for thine only Portion? Will you own and honour mine All-sufficiency? Will you take me as your Happiness and Treasure, your Hope and Bliss? I am a Sun, and a Shield, all in one: Will you have me for your All? Gen. 15.1. Psal. 84.11. Now, what dost thou say to this? Doth thy Mouth water after the Onions and Flesh-pots of Egypt? Art thou loth to exchange the earthly Happiness for a Part in God; and though thou wouldst be glad to have God and the World too, yet canst thou not think of having him, and nothing but him, but hadst rather take up• •ith the Earth below, if God would but let thee keep it as long as thou wouldst? This is a fearful Sign. But now, if thou art willing to sell all for the Pearl of great ⟨p. 116⟩Price, Mat. 13.47. If thine Heart answer, Lord, I desire no other Portion but thee. Take the Corn, and the Wine, and the Oil, whoso will, so I may have the Light of thy Countenance: I pitch upon thee for my Happiness, I gladly venture myself on thee, and trust myself with thee. I set my Hopes in thee, I take up my Rest with thee. Let me hear thee say, I am thy God, thy Salvation, and I have enough, all I wish for. I will make no Terms with thee, but for thyself: Let me but have thee sure, let me be able to make my Claim, and see my Title to thyself; and for other Things, I leave them to thee; give me more or less, any thing, or nothing, I will be satisfied in my God. Take him thus and he is thine own.
Again, He tells you, I am the sovereign Lord: If you will have me for your God, you must give me the Supremacy, Matth. 6.24