N03796:419
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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But I turn unto you.
Men and Brethren, Heaven and Earth doth call upon you; yea, Hell itself doth preach the Doctrine of Repentance unto you: the Angels of the Churches travail with you, Gal. 4.19. the Angels of Heaven wait for you, for your repenting, and turning unto God. O Sinner, why should the Devil make merry with thee? Why should thou be a Morsel for that devouring Leviathan? Why should Harpies and Hellhounds tear thee, and make a Feast upon thee; and when they have got thee into the Snare, and have lastned their Talons in thee, laugh at thy Destruction, and deride thy Misery, and sport themselves with thy damnable Folly? This must be thy Case, except thou turn. And were it not better thou shouldst be a Joy to Angels, than a Laughing-stock and Sport for Devils? Verily, if thou wouldst but come in, the heavenly Host would take up their Anthems, and sing, Glory be to God in the Highest; the Morning-Stars would sing together, and all the Sons of God shout for Joy, and celebrate this new Creation as they did the first. Thy Repentance would, as it were, make Holy-day in Heaven, and the glorious Spirits would rejoice in that there was a new Brother added to their Society, Rev. 22.9. another Heir born to their Lord, and the lost Son received safe and sound. ⟨p. 140⟩The true Penitent's Tears, are indeed the Wine that cheereth both God and Man.
Men and Brethren, Heaven and Earth doth call upon you; yea, Hell itself doth preach the Doctrine of Repentance unto you: the Angels of the Churches travail with you, Gal. 4.19. the Angels of Heaven wait for you, for your repenting, and turning unto God. O Sinner, why should the Devil make merry with thee? Why should thou be a Morsel for that devouring Leviathan? Why should Harpies and Hellhounds tear thee, and make a Feast upon thee; and when they have got thee into the Snare, and have lastned their Talons in thee, laugh at thy Destruction, and deride thy Misery, and sport themselves with thy damnable Folly? This must be thy Case, except thou turn. And were it not better thou shouldst be a Joy to Angels, than a Laughing-stock and Sport for Devils? Verily, if thou wouldst but come in, the heavenly Host would take up their Anthems, and sing, Glory be to God in the Highest; the Morning-Stars would sing together, and all the Sons of God shout for Joy, and celebrate this new Creation as they did the first. Thy Repentance would, as it were, make Holy-day in Heaven, and the glorious Spirits would rejoice in that there was a new Brother added to their Society,