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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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And is it true indeed? Is Life and Death at thy choice? Yea, it is as true as Truth is, Deut. 30.19. Why then, what hinders but that thou shouldst be happy? Nothing doth or can hinder, but thine own wilful neglect, or refusal. It was the passage of the Eunuch to Philip, See, here is Water: What doth hinder me to be baptized? So I may say to thee, See, here ⟨p. 155⟩is Christ, here is Mercy, Pardon, Life: What hinders, but that thou shouldst be pardoned and saved? One of the Martyrs, as he was praying at the stake, had his Pardon set by in a Box, which indeed he refused deservedly, because upon unworthy terms: But here the terms are most honourable and easy. O Sinner! wilt thou burn with thy Pardon by thee? Why, do but forthwith give up thy Consent to Christ, to renounce thy Sins, deny thyself, take up the Yoke, and the Cross, and thou carriest the Day, Christ is thine, Pardon, Peace, Life, Blessedness, all are thine: And is not this an offer worth embracing? Why shouldst thou hesitate, or doubtfully dispute about the Case? Is it not past controversy, whether God be better than Sin, and Glory better than Vanity? Why shouldst thou forsake thine own mercy, and sin against thine own Life? When wilt thou shake off thy Sloth, and lay by thine Excuses? Boast not thyself of to Morrow, thou knowest not where this Night may lodge thee, Prov. 27.1.
Beloved, now the holy Spirit is striving wi• you: He will not always strive. Hast thou not felt thy Heart warmed by the Word, and been almost persuaded to leave off thy Sins, and come into God? Hast thou not felt some good motions in thy mind, wherein thou hast been warned of thy Danger, and told what thy careless Course would end in? It may be thou art like young Samuel, who when the Lord called once and again, he knew not the Voice of the Lord, 1 Sam. 3.6, 7. But these Motions and Items are the offers, essays, calls and strivings of the Spirit: Oh, take the Advantage of the Tide, and know the Day of thy Visitation.