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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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Answ. Distinguish between Sinners. 1. There are Resolved Sinners: Their Prayers God abhors. 2. Returning Sinners: These God will come forth to, and meet with Mercy, tho' yet afar off, Luke 15.20. Tho' the Prayers of the Unsanctified cannot have full Acceptance, yet God hath done much at the Request of such; as at Ahab's Humiliation, and Nineveh's Fast; 1 Kings 21.26. Jonah 3.8, 9, 10. Surely thou mayest go as far as these, tho' thou hast no Grace: And how dost thou know but thou mayest speed in thy Suit, as they did in theirs? Yea, is he not far more likely to grant thee, than them; since thou askest in the Name of Christ, and that not for temporal Blessings, as they, but for Things much more pleasing to him, viz. For Christ, Grace, Pardon, ⟨p. 130⟩that thou mayest be justified, sanctified, renewed and fitted to serve him? Turn to these Soul-encouraging Scriptures, Prov. 2.1. to 6. Luke 11.9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Prov. 8.34, 35.
Answ. Distinguish between Sinners. 1. There are Resolved Sinners: Their Prayers God abhors. 2. Returning Sinners: These God will come forth to, and meet with Mercy, tho' yet affar off, Luke 15.20. Tho' the Prayers of the Unsanctified cannot have full Acceptance, yet God hath done much at the Request of such; as at Ahab's Humiliation, and Nineveh's Fast; 1 Kings 21.26. Jonah 3.8, 9, 10. Surely thou mayest go as far as these, tho' thou hast no Grace: And how dost thou know but thou mayest speed in thy Suit, as they did in theirs? Yea, is he not far more likely to grant thee, than them; since thou askest in the Name of Christ, and that not for temporal Blessings, as they, but for Things much more pleasing to him, viz. For Christ, Grace, Pardon,