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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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Direct. XII. Attend conscientiously upon the Word as the Means appointed for thy Conversion, James 1.18, 19. 1 Cor. 4.14. Attend, I say, not customarily, but conscientiously; with this Desire, Design, Hope and Expectation, that thou mayest be converted by it; ⟨p. 128⟩To every Sermon thou hearest, come with this Thought; Oh, I hope God will now come in; I hope this Day may be the Time, this may be the Man by whom God will bring me Home. When thou art coming to the Ordinances, lift up thy Heart thus to God: Lord, let this be the Sabbath, let this be the Season, wherein I may receive renewing Grace. Oh, let it be said, that to Day such a One was born to thee.
Direct. XII. Attend conscientiously upon the Word as the Means appointed for thy Conversion, James 1.18, 19. 1 Cor. 4.14. Attend, I say, not customarily, but conscienciously; with this Desire, Design, Hope and Expectation, that thou mayest be converted by it; ⟨p. 128⟩To every Sermon thou hearest, come with this Thought; Oh, I hope God will now come in; I hope this Day may be the Time, this may be the Man by whom God will bring me Home. When thou art coming to the Ordinances, lift up thy Heart thus to God: Lord, let this be the Sabbath, let this be the Season, wherein I may receive renewing Grace. Oh, let it be said, that to Day such a One was born to thee.
Object. Thou wilt say, I have been long a Hearer of the Word, and yet it hath not been effectual to my Conversion? Answ. Yea, but thou hast not attended upon it in this Manner, as a Means of thy Conversion, nor with this Design, nor praying for, and expecting of this happy Effect of it.