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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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Fourthly, Resolve to be faithful; having engaged thine Heart, opened thy Mouth, and subscribed with my Hand unto the Lord, resolve in his Strength never to go back.
Lastly, Being thus prepared, on some convenient Time set apart for that Purpose, set upon the Work, and in the most solemn Manner possible, as if the Lord were visibly present before thine Eyes, fall down on thy Knees, and spreading forth thine Hands toward Heaven, open thine Heart to the Lord in these, or the like Words.
O Most dreadful God! For the Passion of Thy Son, I beseech Thee accept of thy poor Prodigal, now prostrating himself at thy Door: I have fallen from Thee by mine Iniquity, and am by Nature a Son of Death, and a Thousand-fold more the Child of Hell, by my wicked Practice; but of thine Infinite Grace, thou hast promised Grace to me in Christ, if I will but turn to thee with all my Heart:1 therefore upon the Call of thy Gospel, I am now come in; and, throwing down my Weapons, submit my self to thy Mercy.
- 1The Terms of our Communion are either from which, or to which.