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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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Why, as God liveth, that made thy Soul, thou art but a few Hours distant from all this, except thou repent, and be converted.
Oh! I am even lost and swallowed up in the Abundance of these Arguments that I might suggest: If there be any Point of Wisdom in all the World, it is to repent, and come in; if there be any Thing righteous, any Thing reasonable, that is it: If there be any Thing in the World that may be called Madness and Folly, and any Thing that may be counted sottish, absurd, brutish, unreasonable, it is this, to go on in thine unconverted Estate. Let me beg of thee, as thou wouldst not wilfully destroy thy self, to sit down and weigh, besides what hath been said, these following Motives, and let Conscience speak, if it be not Reason that thou shouldst repent and turn.
I. The God that made thee doth most graciously invite thee.
1. His most sweet and merciful Nature doth invite thee. O the Kindness of God, his working Bowels, his tender Mercies! They are infinitely above our Thoughts: Higher than Heaven, what can