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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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Chap. VIII. Containing the Motives to Conversion.
THO' what is already said of the Necessity of Conversion, and of the Miseries of the Unconverted, might be sufficient to induce any considering Mind to resolve upon a present Turning, or Conversion unto God; yet knowing what a Piece of desperate Obstinacy and Untractableness the Heart of Man naturally is, I have thought it necessary to add to the Means of Conversion, and Directions for a Covenant closure with God in Christ, some Motives to persuade you hereunto
O Lord, fail me not now, at my last Attempts. If any Soul have read hitherto, and be yet untouched, now, Lord, fasten in him, and do thy Work. Now take him by the Heart, overcome ⟨p. 139⟩him, persuade him, till he say, Thou hast prevailed, for thou wert stronger than I. Lord, didst thou not make me a Fisher of Men? And have I toiled all this while, and caught nothing? Alas, that I should have spent my Strength for nought! And now I am casting my last; Lord Jesus, stand thou upon the Shore, and direct how and where I shall spread my Net; and let me so enclose with Arguments the Souls I seek for, that that may not be able to get out. Now, Lord, for a Multitude of Souls! Now for a full Draught! O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me this once, O God.