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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 this know, That thou hast the very same Encouragement to seek and wait, that the Saints now in Glory once had; for they were once in thy very Case. And have they sped so well, and wilt thou not go to the same Door, and wait upon God in the same Course?
Direct. XV. Forsake thy evil Company; Prov. 9.6. and forbear the Occasions of Sin, Prov. 23.31. Thou wilt never be turned from Sin, till thou wil• decline and fore-go the Temptations of Sin.
I never expect thy Conversion from Sin, unless thou art brought to some Self-denial, as to fly the Occasions. If thou wilt be nibbling at the Bait, and playing on the Brink, and tampering and meddling with the Snare, thy Soul will surely be taken. Where God doth expose Men in his Providence, unavoidably to Temptations, and the Occasions are such as ⟨p. 131⟩we cannot remove, we may expect special Assistance in the Use of his Means: But when we tempt God, by running into Danger, he will not engage to support us when we are tempted. And of all Temptations, one of the most fatal and pernicious, is evil Company. Oh, what hopeful Beginnings have these often stifled. Oh, the Souls, the Estates, the Families, the Towns, that these have ruined! How many a poor Sinner hath been enlightened, and convinced, and hath been just ready to give the Devil the Slip, and hath even escaped the Snare, and yet wicked Company have pulled him back at last, and made him Seven fold more the Child of Hell. In one Word, I have no Hopes of thee, except thou wilt shake off thy evil Company. Christ speaketh to thee, as to them in another Case; If thou seek me, then let these go their Way,