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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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5. Wherein you are impotent, God doth offer Gra• to enable you. I have stretched out my Hand, and no Ma• regarded, Prov. 1.24. What tho' you are plunge ⟨p. 151⟩into the Ditch of that Misery, from which you can never get out? Christ offereth to help you out: He stretcheth his Hand to you, and if you perish, it is for refusing his Help. Behold, I stand at the Door, and knock: If any Man open to me, I will come in, Rev. 3.20. What tho' you are poor, and wretched, and blind, and naked, Christ offereth a Cure for your Blindness, a Cover for your Nakedness, a Remedy for your Poverty, he tendereth you his Righteousness, his Graces: I counsel thee to buy […] me Gold, that thou mayest be rich; and white Raiment, that thou mayest be clothed; and anoint thine Eyes with Eye-salve that thou mayest see, Rev. 3.17.18. Do you say, The Condition is impossible, for I have not wherewith to buy? You must know, that this buying is without Money, and without Price, Isa. 55.1. this buying is by begging, and seeking with Diligence and Constancy in the Use of God's Means, Prov. 2.3, 4. God commandeth thee to know him, and to fear him. Dost thou say, Yea, but my Mind is blinded, and my Heart is hardened from this Fear? I answer, God doth offer to enlighten thy Mind, and to teach thee his Fear, that is presented to thy Choice, Prov. 1.29. For that •ey hated Knowledge, and did not choose the Fear of the Lord. So that now, if Men live in Ignorance and Estrangement from the Lord, it is because they will not understand, and desire not the Knowledge of his Ways, Job 21.14. If thou criest after Knowledge, if thou seekest her as Silver, &c. Then shalt thou understand the Fear of the Lord, and find the Knowledge of God,