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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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And since thou hast appointed the Lord Jesus Christ,1 the only Means of coming unto thee, I do here, upon the bended Knees of my Soul, accept of him, as the only new and living Way, by which Sinners may have Access to thee; and do hereby solemnly join my self in Marriage-Covenant to him.
- 1The medate Terms are either principal, or less principal. The principal is Christ the Mediator who must be thus embrac'd.
O blessed Jesus, I come to thee hungry and hardly bestead, poor and wretched, and miserable, and blind and naked, a most loathsome polluted Wretch; a guilty, condemned Malefactor, unworthy for ever to wash the Feet of the Servants of my Lord, much more to be solemnly married to the King of Glory: But such is thine unparalleled Love, I do here with all my Power accept thee, and do take thee for my Head and Husband; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; for all Times and Conditions, to love, honour and obey thee before all others; and this to the Death. I embrace thee in all thy Offices: I renounce mine own Unworthiness, and do here avow thee to be the Lord my Righteousness: I renounce mine own Wisdom, and do here take thee for mine only Guide. I renounce mine own Will, and take thy Will for my Law.
O blessed Jesus, I come to thee hungry and hardly bestead, poor and wretched, and miserable, and blind and naked, a most loathsom polluted Wretch; a guilty, condemned Malefactor, unworthy for ever to wash the Feet of the Servants of my Lord, much more to be solemnly married to the King of Glory: But such is thine unparallel'd Love, I do here with all my Power accept thee, and do take thee for my Head and Husband; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; for all Times and Conditions, to love, honour and obey thee before all others; and this to the Death. I embrace thee in all thy Offices: I renounce mine own Unworthiness, and do here avow thee to be the Lord my Righteousness: I renounce mine own Wisdom, and do here take thee for mine only Guide. I renounce mine own Will, and take thy Will for my Law.