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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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Dedication: To all the Ignorant, Carnal, and Ungodly, who are Lovers of Pleasure more than God, and…
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Q 7. Ask them whether it be credible or suitable to God's word or workings, that he that will not give them the Fruits of the Earth without their Labour, nor feed and clothe them without themselves, will yet bring them to Heaven without any Care, Desire or Labour of their own? when he hath bid them care not for the one, and called for their greatest Diligence for the other, Matth 6.23, 25, 33. John 6.27. Yea, ask them whether these be not the two first Articles of all Faith and Religion 1. That God is. 2. That he is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek him, Heb. 11.6.
Q. 8. Ask them, yea ask your Eyes, your Ears, your daily Experience in the world, whether all o• most that call themselves Christians, do in good Sadness thus live to God in the Spirit, and mortify the Flesh with all its Affections and Lusts, and seek first God's Kingdom and Righteousness, love him above all, and lay up Treasure and Heart in Heaven; or rather, whether most be not lovers of the world, and lovers of Pleasures more than God, and live not after the Flesh, and mind not most the things of the Flesh? I mention not now the Drunkards and Flesh-pleasing Gentlemen, that live in Pride, Fullness and Idleness and Sport, and play away their precious Time; nor the filthy Fornicator, nor the merciless Oppressors, nor the malignant haters of a godly life, nor the perjured perfidious Betrayers of Mens Souls, and of the Gospel, or of their Country's good, nor such other Men of seared Conscience, whose Misery none questioneth, but such as are blind and miserable. It is not these only I am speaking of, but the common, worldly, fleshly and ungodly ones.
Q. 8. Ask them, yea ask your Eyes, your Ears, your daily Experience in the world, whether all o• most that call themselves Christians, do in good Sadness thus live to God in the Spirit, and mortify the Flesh with all its Affections and Lusts, and seek first God's Kingdom and Righteousness, love him above all, and lay up Treasure and Heart in Heaven; or rather, whether most be not lovers of the world, and lovers of Pleasures more than God, and live not after the Flesh, and mind not most the things of the Flesh? I mention not now the Drunkards and Flesh-pleasing Gentlemen, that live in Pride, Fulness and Idleness and Sport, and play away their precious Time; nor the filthy Fornicator, nor the merciless Oppressors, nor the malignant haters of a godly life, nor the perjured perfidious Betrayers of Mens Souls, and of the Gospel, or of their Country's good, nor such other Men of seared Conscience, whose Misery none questioneth, but such as are blind and miserable. It is not these only I am speaking of, but the common, worldly, fleshly and ungodly ones.