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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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Direct. VII. Accept of the Lord Jesus in all his Offices, with all his Inconveniences as thine. Upon Terms Christ may be had. Sinner, thou hast undone thyself, and art plunged into the Ditch of most deplorable Misery, out of which thou art never able to climb up: But Jesus Christ is able and ready to help thee, and he freely tenders himself to thee, Heb. 7.25. John 3.•6. Be thy Sins never so many, never so great, of never so long Continuance, yet thou shalt be most certainly pardoned and saved, if thou dost ⟨p. 118⟩not wretchedly neglect the Offer that in the Name of God is here made unto thee. The Lord Jesus calleth unto thee, to look unto him and be saved, Isa. 45.22. to come unto him, and he will in no wise cast thee out, John 6.37. Yea, he is a Suitor to thee, and beseecheth thee to be reconciled, 2 Cor. 5.20. He crieth in the Streets, he knocketh at thy Door, he wooeth thee to accept of him, and live with him, Prov. 1.20 Rev. 2.30. If thou diest, 'tis because thou wouldst not come to him for Life, John 5.40. Now accept of an offered Christ, and thou art made up for ever: Now give up thy Consent to him, and the Match is made, all the World cannot hinder it. Do not stand off because of thine Unworthiness. Man, I tell thee, nothing in all the World can undo thee, but thine own Unwillingness Speak, Man; Art thou willing of the Match? Wilt thou have Christ in all his Relations to be thine; thy King, thy Priest, thy Prophet? Wilt thou have him with all his Inconveniences? Take not Christ Hand over Head, but sit down first, and count the Cost. Wilt thou lay all down at his Feet? Wilt thou be content to run all Hazards with him? Wilt thou take thy Lot with him, fall where it will? Wilt thou deny thyself, take up thy Cross, and follow him? Art thou deliberately, understandingly, freely, fixedly, determined to cleave to him in all Times, and Conditions? If so, my Soul for thine, thou shalt never perish,