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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 Rock! O Adamant! What! Not moved yet? Nor yet resolved to turn forthwith, and to close with Mercy; I will try thee yet once again: If one were sent to thee from the Dead, wouldst thou be persuaded? Why, hear the Voice from the Dead, from the Damned, crying to thee that thou shouldst repent. I pray thee, that thou wouldst send him to my Father's House; for I have five Brethren, that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this Place of Torment. If one went unto them from the Dead, they will repent, Luke 16.27, 28, &c. Hear, O Man! thy Predecessors in Impenitence preach to thee from the infernal Gibbets, from the Flames, from the Rack, that thou shouldst repent. Oh, look down in the Bottomless pit: Seest thou how the Smoke of their Torment ascendeth for ever and ever? Rev. 14.11. How black are the Fiends? How furious are their Torments! 'Tis their only Music to hear how their miserable Patients roar, to hear their Bones crack: 'Tis their Meat and Drink to see how their Flesh frieth, and their Fat droppeth; to drench them with burning Metal, and to rip open their Bodies, and to pour in the fierce burning Brass into their Bowels, and the Recesses and Ventricles of their Hearts. What thinkest thou of those Chains of Darkness, of those Instruments of Cruelty? Canst thou be content to burn? Seest thou how the Worm gnaweth, how the Oven gloweth, how the Fire rageth? What sayest thou to that River of Brimstone, that dark and horrible Vault, that Gulf of Perdition? Wilt thou take up thy Habitation here? Oh, lay ⟨p. 142⟩•hine Ear to the Door of Hell: Hearest thou the Curses and Blasphemies, the Weepings and the Wailings; how they lament their Folly, and curse their Day? Mat. 22.13. Rev. 16.9. How do they •oar and yell, and gnash their Teeth? How deep are their Groans? How feeling are their Moans? How unconceivable are their Miseries? If the Shrieks of Corah, Dathan and Abiram, were so terrible (when the Earth clave asunder, and opened her Mouth, and swallowed them up, and all that appertained to them) that all Israel fled at the Cry of them, Numb. 19.33, 34. Oh, how fearful would the Cry be, if God should take off the Covering from the Mouth of Hell, and let the Cry of the Damned ascend in all its Terror amongst the Children of Men? And of all their Moans and Miseries, this is the piercing, killing Emphasis and Burden, For ever, for ever.