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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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O my Sins! my Sins! Behold, a Troop cometh! Multitudes, Multitudes! there is no Number of their Armies. Innumerable Evils have compassed me about: Mine Iniquities have taken hold upon me; they have set themselves in Array against me. Oh! it were better to have all the Regiments of Hell come against me, than to have my Sins to fall upon me, to the spoiling of my Soul. Lord, how am I surrounded? how many are they that rise up against me? They have beset me behind and before: They swarm within me, and without me: They have possessed all my Powers, and have fortified mine unhappy Soul as a Garrison, which this Brood of Hell doth man, and maintain against the God that made me.
And they are as mighty, as they are many: The Sands are many, but then they are not great: The Mountains great, but then they are not many: But woe is me! my Sins are as many as the Sands, and as mighty as the Mountains; their Weight is greater than their Number. It were better that the Rocks and the Mountains should fall upon me, than the crushing and insupportable Load of my own Sins. Lord, I am heavy loaden; let Mercy help, or I am gone. Unload me of this heavy Guilt, this sinking Load, or I am crushed without Hope, and must be pressed down to Hell. If my Grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my Sins laid in the Balances together, they would be heavier than the Sand of the Sea; therefore my Words are swallowed up; the would weigh down all the Rocks, and the Hills, and turn the Balance against all the Isles of the Earth O Lord, thou knowest my manifold Transgressions and my mighty Sins.
And they are as mighty, as they are many: The Sands are many, but then they are not great: The Mountains great, but then they are not many: But wo is me! my Sins are as many as the Sands, and as mighty as the Mountains; their Weight is greater than their Number. It were better that the Rocks and the Mountains should fall upon me, than the crushing and insupportable Load of my own Sins. Lord, I am heavy loaden; let Mercy help, or I am gone. Unload me of this heavy Guilt, this sinking Load, or I am crushed without Hope, and must be pressed down to Hell. If my Grief were thorowly weighed, and all my Sins laid in the Ballances together, they would be heavier than the Sand of the Sea; therefore my Words are swallowed up; the would weigh down all the Rocks, and the Hills, and turn the Ballance against all the Isles of the Earth O Lord, thou knowest my manifold Transgressions and my mighty Sins.