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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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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 ⟨p. 143⟩we do? Deeper than Hell, what can we know? Job 11.•, 8, 9. He is full of Compassion, and gracious; long-suffering, and plenteous in Mercy, Psalm 86.15. This is a great Argument to persuade Sinners to come in, Turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to Anger, and of great Kindness, and repenteth him of the Evil. If God would not repent him of the Evil, it were some Discouragement to us, why we should not repent. If there were no Hope of Mercy, it were no such Wonder if Rebels should stand out; But never had Subject such a gracious Prince, such Piety, Patience, Clemency, Pity, to deal with, as you have. Who is a God like unto him that pardoneth Iniquity, &c. Micah 7.18. O Sinners, see what a God you have to deal with! If you will but turn, He will turn again, and will have Compassion on you; He will subdue your Iniquities, and cast all your Sins into the Depth of the Sea, Verse 19. Return unto me, saith the Lord of Hosts, and I will return unto you, Mal. 2.17. Zeth. 1.3. Sinners do not fail in that they have •oo high Thoughts of God's Mercies, but in that, •. They overlook his Justice. 2. They promise themselves Mercy out of God's Way. His Mercy is beyond all Imagination, Isa. 55.9. great Mercies, 1 Chron. 21.13. manifold Mercies, Neh. 9.19. tender Mercies, Psalm 25.6. sure Mercies, Isa 55.3. everlasting Mercies,