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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 9. Ask them whether the Name of a Christian will save any of these ungodly Persons? And whether God will like Men the better for lying and calling themselves Christians, when they are none indeed? And, whether they dare preach to the People, that a Christian Drunkard, or a Christian Fornicator or Oppressor, or a Christian Worldling needeth not Conversion.
Q. 10. Ask them whether they say not themselves that Hypocrisy is a great Aggravation of all other Sin? and whether God hath not made the Hypocrites and Unbelievers to be the Standards in Hell; Luk. 25.51. And whether seeking to abuse God by a mock Religion, do make such false Christians better than the poor Heathens and Infidels, or much worse? And whether he be not an Hypocrite that professeth to be a Christian, and a Servant of God, when he is none, not will be? and whether he that knoweth his Master's will, and doth it not, shall not have the sorest Stripes, or Punishment, Luk. 10.47.
Q. 11. Ask them whether in their Baptism (which is their Christening as a Covenant) they did not renounce the Flesh, the World, and the Devil, and vow and deliver up themselves to God their Father, their Saviour and their Sanctifier? And whether all or most Men perform this Vow? And whether a perjured Covenant breaker against God, is fitter for salvation than one that never was baptized?
Q. 11. Ask them whether in their Baptism (which is their Christning as a Covenant) they did not renounce the Flesh, the World, and the Devil, and vow and deliver up themselves to God their Father, their Saviour and their Sanctifier? And whether all or most Men perform this Vow? And whether a perjured Covenant braker against God, is fitter for salvation than one that never was baptized?