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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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4. The Terms of Mercy are brought as low as possible to you. God hath stooped as low to Sinners, as with Honour he can. He will not be thought a Fauto• of Sin, nor strain the Glory of his Holiness: And whither could he come lower than he hath, unless he should do this? He hath abated the impossible ⟨p. 149⟩Terms of the first Covenant, Jer. 3.13. Mark 5.36. Acts 16.31. and 3.19 Prov. 28.13. He doth not impose any Thing unreasonable or impossible, as a Condition of Life upon you. Two Things were necessary to be done, according to the Tenor of the first Covenant, by you: 1. That you should fully satisfy the Demands of Justice for past Offences. 2. That you should perform personally, perfectly and perpetually the whole Law for the Time to come. Both these are to us impossible, Rom. 8.3. But behold God's gracious Abatement in both: He doth not stand upon Satisfaction, he is content to take of the Surety (and he of his own providing too) what he might have exacted from you, 2 Cor. 5.19. He declares himself to have received a Ransom, Job 33.24. 1 Tim. 2.6. and that he expects nothing but that you should accept his Son, and he shall be Righteousness and Redemption to you, John 1.12. 1 Cor. 1.30. And for the future Obedience, here he is content to yield to your Weakness, and omit the Rigour. He doth not stand upon Perfection (as a Condition of Life, tho' he still insists upon it as due) but is content to accept of Sincerity,