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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, Thou must give up thy whole Interest to him: If there be any Thing that thou keepest back from Christ, it will he thine undoing, Luke 14.33. Unless thou wilt forsake all, (in Preparation and Resolution of thy Heart) thou canst not be his Disciple. Thou must hate Father and Mother, yea and thing own Life […] in Comparison of him, and as far as it stands in Competition with him. Matth. 10.37. Luke 14 26, 27. &c. In a Word, Thou must give him thy self and all that thou hast without Reservation, or else thou canst have no Part in him.
Again, Thou must give up thy whole Interest to him: If there be any Thing that thou keepest back from Christ, it will he thine undoing, Luke 14.33. Unless thou wilt forsake all, (in Preparation and Resolution of thy Heart) thou canst not be his Disciple. Thou must hate Father and Mother, yea and thing own Life 〈…〉 in Comparison of him, and as far as it stands in Competition with him. Matth. 10.37. Luke 14 26, 27. &c. In a Word, Thou must give him thy self and all that thou hast without Reservation, or else thou canst have no Part in him.
Direct. IX. Make Choice of the Laws of Christ, as the Rule of thy Words, Thoughts and Actions, Ps. 119.30. This is •he true Convert's Choice. But here remember these three Rules, 1. You must choose them all. There is no coming to Heaven by a partial Obedience; read