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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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But if thou say thou believest, let me next kno• thy Resolutions. Wilt thou embrace this for th• Happiness? Wilt thou forego thy sinful Gains, th• forbidden Pleasures? Wilt thou trample on th• World's Esteem, and spit in the Harlot's Face, an• stop thine Ears at her Flatteries, and wrest thee o• of her Embraces? Wilt thou be content to take u• with present Reproach and Poverty, if it lie in th• Way to Heaven, and follow the Lord with humb• Self-denial, in a mortified and Flesh-displeasing Lif• If so, all is thine, and that for ever. And art n• thou fairly offered? Is it not Pity but he should […] ⟨p. 147⟩damned, that will needs go on and perish, when all this may be had for the taking? In a Word, Wilt thou now close with these Proffers? Wilt thou take God at his Word? Wilt thou let go thy Hold-fast of the World, and rid thy Hands of thy Sins, and lay hold on eternal Life? If not, let Conscience tell thee, whether thou art not distracted or bewitched, that thou shouldst neglect so happy a Choice, by which thou mightest be made up for ever.
But if thou say thou believest, let me next kno• thy Resolutions. Wilt thou embrace this for th• Happiness? Wilt thou forego thy sinful Gains, th• forbidden Pleasures? Wilt thou trample on th• World's Esteem, and spit in the Harlot's Face, an• stop thine Ears at her Flatteries, and wrest thee o• of her Embraces? Wilt thou be content to take u• with present Reproach and Poverty, if it lie in th Way to Heaven, and follow the Lord with humb Self-denial, in a mortified and Flesh-displeasing Lif If so, all is thine, and that for ever. And art n thou fairly offered? Is it not Pity but he should