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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 XIV. Set upon the constant and diligent Use of serious and fervent Prayer. He that neglects Prayer, is a profane and unsanctified Sinner, Job 15.4. He that is not constant in Prayer, is but an Hypocrite, Job 27.10. (unless the Omission be contrary to his ordinary Course, under the Force of some instant Temptation.) This is one of the Things Conversion ⟨p. 129⟩appears in, that it sets Men on praying. Acts 9.11. Therefore set to this Duty; let never a Day pass over thee, wherein thou hast not, Morning and Evening, set apart some Time for set and solemn Prayer in secret. Call thy Family also together daily and duly, to worship God with thee. Woe be unto thee, if thine be found amongst the Families that call not on God's Name, Jer 10.25. But cold and lifeless Devotions will not reach half Way to Heaven; Be fervent and importunate; Importunity will carry it, but without Violence the Kingdom of Heaven will not be taken, Matth. 11.12. Thou must strive to enter, Luke 13.24. and wrestle with Tears and Supplications, as Jacob, if thou meanest to carry the Blessing, Gen. 32.24. compared with Hos. 12.4. Thou art undone for ever without Grace, and therefore thou must put to it, and resolve to take no Denial. That Man that is fixed in this Resolution, Well, I must have Grace; and I will never give over till I have Grace, and I will never leave seeking and waiting, and striving with God, and mine own Heart, till he do renew me by the Power of his Grace; This Man is in the likeliest Way to win Grace.
Direct XIV. Set upon the constant and diligent Use of serious and fervent Prayer. He that neglects Prayer, is a profane and unsanctified Sinner, Job 15.4. He that is not constant in Prayer, is but an Hypocrite,